Note 83 — Chapter XVII · SCHWEINFURTH AND THE BASIN OF THE BAHR-AL-GHAZAL
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France was dogged with continual ill-luck in her attempts to open up and explore the Nile basin. Expedition after expedition and explorer after explorer, despatched directly or indirectly under French auspices, failed (generally by death from fever) in grasping the great discoveries which fell to more fortunate Germans and Englishmen.