biography
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Cameron, Verney Lovett
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1844–94)
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| biography:
| Explorer, born in Radipole, Dorset, S England, UK. He entered the navy in 1857, and in 1872 was appointed to command an African E coast expedition to relieve David Livingstone. Starting from Bagamoyo in 1873, he met Livingstone's followers bearing his remains to the coast. He made a survey of L Tanganyika, then continued to Benguela, the first European to cross Africa from coast to coast. In 1878 he travelled overland to India, to satisfy himself of the feasibility of a Constantinople–Baghdad railway. |
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