THE VISIT OF FREDERICK FORBES TO

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THE VISIT OF FREDERICK FORBES TO See all items with this value

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Previous issues of this journal have carried information about early nineteenthcenturyvisits to the northern coast of Somalia by John Studdy Leigh, whoclaimed that he and not Richard Burton was the first European to succeed inpenetrating inland to the city of Harar. Leigh's claim was made in 1892 and hesaid his trip had been made in 1838-1839.1 Although Marcus and Page gave somecautious credence to Leigh's story, Kirkman subsequently showed that theevidence of Leigh's own journal proved that although he had been at Berbera in1838-1839, he had definitely not gone inland to Harar.2 The journal entries alsothrow doubt upon another of Leigh's assertions of 1892: that the people ofBerbera regarded him as "the first European that has visited . . . within .

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1833 See all items with this value

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Fredrick Forbes See all items with this value

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