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Knowledge of Africa increased.

Numerous European explorers began to explore the continent.

Mungo Park traversed the Niger River.

James Bruce travelled through Ethiopia and located the source of the Blue Nile.

Richard Francis Burton was the first European at Lake Tanganyika.

Samuel White Baker explored the Upper Nile.

John Hanning Speke located a source of the Nile at Lake Victoria.

Other significant European explorers included Heinrich Barth, Henry Morton Stanley, Silva Porto, Alexandre de Serpa Pinto, Rene Caille, Gerhard Rolfs, Gustav Nachtigal, George Schweinfurth, and Joseph Thomson.

The most famous of the explorers was David Livingstone, who explored southern Africa and traversed the continent from the Atlantic at Luanda to the Indian Ocean at Quelimane.

European explorers made use of African guides and servants, and established long-distance trading routes were used.