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Read the excerpt from Into the Unknown by Stewart Ross, and then look at the image below.Among the earliest Europeans to show an interest in Africa beyond its shores was Joseph Banks, the botanist who had sailed with Captain Cook. Many others were inspired by him, including the Scottish doctor and missionary, David Livingstone. Between 1854 and 1856, Livingstone made the first recorded east-west journey across the continent—from Luanda, on the coast of modern-day Angola, to Quelimane, on the coast of modern-day Mozambique. On his return, he wrote a best-selling book, Missionary Travels, in which he described a country quite different from that which his readers had imagined. Instead of bare, arid desert, he wrote of rich tropical forests, lush plains, and spectacular rivers like the Zambezi. Europeans learned for the first time about the Zambezi’s Mosioa-Tunya Falls, which Livingstone was the first Westerner to see.

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Read the excerpt from Into the Unknown by Stewart Ross, and then look at the illustration below.Kingsley was now entering what she called the "raw Africa” that she liked best. As no passenger boats ventured farther up the Ogooué, she taught herself to handle a dugout canoe—an extremely difficult skill—and paddled her way farther and farther inland. Trading as she went, she was always a cause of astonishment in villages where no European woman had been seen before.

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Read the excerpt from Into the Unknown by Stewart Ross.On his return, he wrote a best-selling book, Missionary Travels, in which he described a country quite different from that which his readers had imagined. Instead of bare, arid desert, he wrote of rich tropical forests, lush plains, and spectacular rivers like the Zambezi.

Read the excerpt from Into the Unknown by Stewart Ross.The Mové steamed south along the coast, crossed the equator in the afternoon, and reached the broad mouth of the Ogooué by evening. Chugging steadily upriver, over the next two days the steamer carried Kingsley between banks of overhanging forest to the small settlement of Lambaréné, 130 miles from the sea. From here, she waited to catch a small stern-wheel steamer, the Éclaireur, bound for Ndjolé, ninety miles upstream, which she reached on June 23.

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