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In 1809, John Lewis Burckhardt was commissioned by the London-based African Association to seek the source of the Niger River. Disguised as an Arab and in constant danger of discovery and betrayal, he traveled to sites forbidden to Westerners and kept a travel diary rich in ethnographic, cultural, geographic, and political observations. Burckhardt's accounts assisted Sir Richard Burton in his subsequent explorations, and they retain their fascinating historic value.