<Li> Gonçalo da Silveira (jesuit missionary, travalled up the Zambezi River to the capital of the Monomotapa which appears to have been the N'Pande kraal, close by the M'Zingesi River, a southern tributary of the Zambezi) </Li> <Ul> <Li> Francisco de Lacerda (explorer in Zambia) </Li> </Ul> <Li> Francisco de Lacerda (explorer in Zambia) </Li> <Ul> <Li> Heinrich Barth </Li> <Li> Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (Italian born) </Li> <Li> Johann Ludwig Burckhardt </Li> <Li> Frederick Russell Burnham (1861 - 1947), an American explorer of south, west, central, and east Africa . </Li> <Li> Richard Francis Burton (1821--1890) (African Great Lakes) </Li> <Li> René Caillié </Li> <Li> Hermenegildo Capelo </Li> <Li> Roberto Ivens </Li> <Li> Candido José da Costa Cardoso (visited Lake Malawi (also known as Lake Nyasa or Lake Niassa) in 1846) </Li> <Li> Paul Du Chaillu </Li> <Li> Hugh Clapperton (1788--1827), explored west and central Africa </Li> <Li>' Victor de Compiègne' </Li> <Li> Dixon Denham (1786--1828), explored west central Africa . </Li> <Li> James Frederic Elton (1840--1877) </Li> <Li> Emil Holub </Li> <Li> Ignatius Knoblecher (1819--1858), explored the White Nile basin </Li> <Li> Alexander Gordon Laing (1793--1826) </Li> <Li> Richard Lemon Lander (1804--1834) </Li> <Li> Oskar Lenz (1848--1925), expeditions in 1879 - 80 (trans - Sahara) and 1885 - 87 (Congo) </Li> <Li> David Livingstone (1813--1873) Emin Pasha Relief Expedition </Li> <Li> Frederick Lugard (1858--1945) </Li> <Li> Serpa Pinto (soldier and colonizer of Africa) </Li> <Li> António da Silva Porto </Li> <Li> Arthur Henry Neumann (1850 - 1907) </Li> <Li> Mungo Park (explorer) (1771--1806) </Li> <Li> Georg Schweinfurth (Latvian born) </Li> <Li> Frederick Courtney Selous (1851 - 1917) </Li> <Li> Henry Morton Stanley (1841--1904) (Welsh born) </Li> <Li> William Edgar Geil (1 October 1865, Doylestown, Pennsylvania--11 April 1925, Venice) </Li> <Li> John Hanning Speke (1827--1864) (discovered the source of the Nile) </Li> <Li> James Hingston Tuckey (1776--1816) (Irish born) </Li> </Ul>

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