i. In the second half of the 19th century, courageous European travellers took the ambitious task of discovering the interior parts of the African continent.
ii. Mungopark, discovered the stream of the Niger river in the south of the Sahara desert. He was the first European tourist to visit Timbuktu, an African city.
iii. Captain Spake and Sir Samuel Baker went to the dense forests of Africa and found out big lakes in Central Africa. These lakes were given the names of British Kings and Queens.
iv. David Livingstone, the fearless Scottish preacher, first brought to the world’s notice the course of the Zambezi river. He also discovered the regions around the Congo, Tanganyika and Nyasa lakes.
