biography
| name: |
Baikie, William Balfour
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pronunciation:
[baykee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1825–64)
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| biography:
| Explorer, naturalist, and linguist, born in Kirkwall, Orkney Is, NE Scotland, UK. He studied medicine at Edinburgh, and in 1848 became a naval surgeon. On the Niger expedition of 1854, he succeeded through the captain's death to the command of the Pleiad, and penetrated 400 km/250 mi farther than any previous traveller. On a second expedition in 1857 he founded a settlement at Lukoja. Within five years he had opened the navigation of the Niger, translated parts of the Bible and prayer book into Hausa, and founded a city state. |
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