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observations concerning the various tribes he encountered. His detailed descriptions of the
Sudanese-Ethiopian border region in the early 1880s constitute an extremely valuable and exciting new contribution to the travel literature of late nineteenth-century Africa. In August 1883, he was fatally
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The son of a wealthy merchant, as a young man
Schuver travelled extensively throughout Europe, the Middle East and northern Africa. At the age of 21 he worked as a private correspondent for the Dutch newspaper
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Schuver maintained extensive notebooks during the expedition, and items he collected during his stay in Sudan are now housed at the
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