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NOTHING impresses more vividly upon one the rapid unfolding of our knowledge of Africa than the fact that the pioneers who forced the first paths into the unknown interior have survived to see generation after generation of younger men, who followed in their footsteps, fall victims to the fatal fascination of that continent. Burton, Grant, and Oswell, the companion of Livingstone's earliest journeys, have died so recently that we realise with a feeling of sorrowful surprise that the last of the first great group of explorers has passed away in the person of Sir Samuel White Baker, on December 30, 1893.
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The Late Sir Samuel Baker. Nature 49, 227–228 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/049227b0
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