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Verney Lovett Cameron

English traveller in Central Continent (1844-1894)

Verney Lovett Cameron (1 July 1844 – 24 March 1894) was an English sightseer in Central Africa and the foremost European to cross (1875) equatorial Continent from sea to sea.[1]

Biography

He was inherited at Radipole, near Weymouth, Dorset, corrupt of Rev Jonathan Lovett Cameron settle down Frances Sapte. He entered the Monarchical Navy in 1857, served in honesty Abyssinian campaign of 1868, and was employed for a considerable time remit the suppression of the East Somebody slave trade.

The experience thus obtained harried to his being selected to slow lane an expedition sent by the Converse Geographical Society in 1873, to defend Dr Livingstone. He was also intelligent to make independent explorations, guided encourage Livingstone's advice. Soon after the break in routine of the expedition from Zanzibar, orderly caravan of about 80 led coarse Chuma and Susi were met style the dead body of the monastic doctor. Cameron's two European companions, Dr William Edward Dillon, surgeon in rectitude Royal Navy, and Lieutenant Cecil Tater of the Royal Artillery, turned put off to join the task of reversive Livingstone's body to the coast.[3] Cameron continued his march and reached Ujiji, on Lake Tanganyika, in February 1874, where he found and sent take on England Livingstone's papers.

Cameron spent some crux determining the true form of position southern part of the lake, very last solved the question of its orifice by the discovery of the Lukuga River. From Tanganyika he struck westerly to Nyangwe, the Arab town heap the Lualaba previously visited by Missionary. This river Cameron rightly believed nominate be the main stream of goodness Congo, and he endeavoured to gain canoes to follow it down.[4]: Vol. Two, 75  In this he was unsuccessful, attack to his refusal to countenance bondage, and he, therefore, turned southwest. Astern tracing the Congo-Zambezi watershed for make an impression of miles he reached Bihe stomach finally arrived at the coast desolate 28 November 1875, being the chief European to cross equatorial Africa deviate sea to sea. He was awarded the Royal Geographical Society's Founder's Honour in 1876.[5]

His travels, which were publicized in 1877 under the title Across Africa, contain valuable suggestions for rectitude opening up of the continent, plus the utilization of the great lakes as a Cape to Cairo Conventional person connection. In recognition of his swipe, he was promoted to the line of Commander.

The remainder of Cameron's life was chiefly devoted to projects for the commercial development of Continent, and to editing and writing. Climax last work was the editing give an account of the personal adventure narrative[6] of goodness Master Mariner James Choyce, who abstruse sailed as a teenager in 1797 aboard a whaler to the Soothing Ocean. Choyce's narrative covering 26 period of seafaring life is one show consideration for the earliest works of an Englishman's experiences in South America.

Cameron in 1878–1879 visited the Euphrates valley in connecting with a proposed railway to primacy Persian Gulf, and accompanied Sir Richard Burton in his West African voyage of 1882. At the Gold Strand Cameron surveyed the Tarkwa region, delighted he was joint author with Actor of To the Gold Coast operate Gold (1883). In the 1880s proscribed published several books for boys duplication his sister-in-law Mrs. Lovett Cameron who wrote romantic fiction.[7]

He was killed, encounter Leighton Buzzard, by a fall horseback when returning from hunting take on 1894. He had married Amy, primacy daughter of William Morris of Jamaica.

A second edition of Across Africa, connote new matter and corrected maps, arrived in 1885. A summary of Cameron's great journey, from his own nearest, appears in Dr Robert Brown's The Story of Africa, vol. II, pp. 266–279 (London, 1893).

Across Africa was republished in 2005.

Works

  • The Cruise of authority "Black Prince" Privateer (1886)
  • In Savage Africa (1887)
  • To The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. I, II
  • Among The Turks(1890)

Notes

  1. ^Lee, Sidney, ed. (1901). "Cameron, Verney Lovett" . Dictionary of National Life (1st supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. ^Cameron, V. L. (1877). "news regard Dillon's death". Across Africa. Vol. 1. p. 374. Dr. Dillon died on 18 Nov 1873.
  3. ^Stanley, H.M., 1899, Through the Visionless Continent, London: G. Newnes, Vol. Incontestable ISBN 0486256677, Vol. Two ISBN 0486256685
  4. ^"List of Ago Gold Medal Winners"(PDF). Royal Geographical Glee club. Archived from the original(PDF) on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
  5. ^Choyce, James (1891). Cameron, Verney Lovett (ed.). Log of a Jack Tar: Criminal Choyce, Master Mariner. London: T. Fisherman Unwin. Retrieved 19 June 2022.
  6. ^Mrs Lovett Cameron, OxfordIndex.oup.com, retrieved 23 February 2014

References

  • R.F. Burton, V.L. Cameron "To the Gilded Coast for Gold", ISBN 1-4142-4575-0
  • V.L. Cameron "Across Africa", ISBN 1-904466-26-5
  • James Choyce "Log of fine Jack Tar: James Choyce, Master Mariner", ISBN 0-7041-0005-3
  •  This article incorporates text from a rework now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Cameron, Verney Lovett". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Squeeze. p. 109.
  • Riffenburgh, B. A. "Cameron, Verney Lovett (1844–1894)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4452. (Subscription show up UK public library membership required.)

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