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2 unusual facts about Bongo Country


Bongo Country

Bongo Country is referred to an entry in the All Saints, Poplar, parish register of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Georg August Schweinfurth

Starting from Khartoum in January 1869, he went up the White Nile to Bahr-el-Ghazal, and then, with a party of ivory dealers, through the regions inhabited by the Diur (Dyoor), Dinka, Bongo and Niam-Niam; crossing the Congo-Nile watershed he entered the country of the Mangbetu (Monbuttu) and discovered the river Uele (March 19, 1870), which by its westward flow he knew was independent of the Nile.



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