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Walter Oudney

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    • Katagum
      • In Katagum

        …Scottish explorers Hugh Clapperton and Walter Oudney visited Katagum, it had two surrounding walls (20 ft [6 m] in height, a 10-ft base with four gates), a central mosque, and considerable trade, using cowrie shells for currency. Oudney died in Katagum and was buried at Murmur, a settlement just beyond…

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    • Sahara
      • sand dunes
        In Sahara: Study and exploration

        Hugh Clapperton, and Walter Oudney succeeded in crossing the desert and discovering Lake Chad. The Scottish explorer Alexander Gordon Laing crossed the Sahara and reached the fabled city of Timbuktu in 1826, but he was killed there before he could return. The French explorer René Caillié, disguised as…

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