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The group was led by the hunter-tracker R. J. Cunninghame. [3] [4] Participants on the expedition included Australian sharpshooter Leslie Tarlton; three American naturalists, Edgar Alexander Mearns, a retired U.S. Army surgeon; Stanford University taxidermist Edmund Heller, and mammalologist John Alden Loring; and Roosevelt's 19-year-old son Kermit, on a leave of absence from Harvard. [5]
Gatti, a member of the Società Reale Italiana di Geografia ed Antropologia, was among the last great safari expedition men. He led thirteen expeditions to Africa starting in 1922. [3] Broke after the financial disaster of his 7th African expedition, Gatti settled in the US in 1930. His second spouse Ellen [4] accompanied him on his 8th expedition.
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On August 25, 1876, Stanley left Ujiji with an expedition of 132, crossing the lake westward to Manyema, [6]: Vol. Two:50 to enter the heart of Africa. In October they reached the confluence of the Luama River and the Lualaba River. Entering Manyema, they were in a lawless area containing cannibal tribes.
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The expedition set out a few months behind the rival German expedition of Gustav A. Fischer. Thomson's leadership was again a success, demonstrating the feasibility of the route and making many important biological, geological, and ethnographic observations, though Thomson's attempt to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in a day failed.
The expedition was led by Richard John Cuninghame, who was recommended to Roosevelt as the best elephant hunter in Africa. [4] Roosevelt followed Cuninghame's advice and hired a second white hunter, Tarlton, as his "adjutant" for the time in East Africa, since no one could lead a year-long expedition with 250 men alone.
The Voulet–Chanoine Mission, also called Central African-Chad Mission (French: mission Afrique Centrale-Tchad), was a French military expedition sent out from Senegal in 1898 to conquer the Chad Basin and unify all French territories in West Africa. This expedition operated jointly with two other expeditions, the Foureau–Lamy and Gentil ...