Hugh Clapperton (1788-1827), Scottish traveller and explorer of West and Central Africa
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Clapperton was accompanied by Richard Lemon Lander, whom he had hired as a servant and it was Lander who finally solved the puzzle of the Niger by sailing all the way down from Timbuktu to the Gulf of Guinea and the Niger delta.