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THE NIGER.
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in four months. The Benue also, discovered by Barth in 1851, was ascended in

Fig. 123. — The Tembi-Kundu Hill and Source of the Niger.

1854 by Baikie for 660 miles from the Atlantic. In 1879 a steamer belonging to