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of north Africa. The arrival of Barth helped defuse some of the conflict, although one of the two engineers refused to travel any further while Vogel was part of the expedition. Barth himself contemplated getting rid of Vogel and stealing his equipment.
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people in the process as he desecrated their shrines by sleeping in them during the journey. He penetrated south to the upper course of the Benue, returning to Kuka 1 December 1855. From this date, the notes of his expedition cease.
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on 13 January 1854. Vogel's specimens, and the fact that both expedition engineers were soldiers, made the king there suspicious of his intentions, and Vogel's movements were severely restricted.
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By some accounts Vogel was disliked by the other members of the expedition due to his poor attitude, difficult personality and unwillingness to learn Arabic, the
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while returning to Tripoli. Several search expeditions were organized to ascertain Vogel's fate and to recover his papers, but it was not until 1873 that
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in 1849 to find a trade route that bypassed the Arabs. Vogel was to be a replacement for Richardson who had died two years earlier and was tasked to make
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Vogel sailed from England on 20 February 1853. The day Vogel left London, news had arrived that Overweg had also died, leaving Barth on his own.
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where he waited for news of Barth. Upon hearing of a change of king in Bornu, Vogel returned to wait for Barth, whom he met December 1854.
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Jörg Adelberger (2000) "Eduard Vogel and Eduard Robert Flegel: the experiences of two 19th century German explorers in Africa", in:
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who had received a message about the suspicious stranger from Bornu. Vogel eventually escaped to Marghi in
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Nachtigal's account was that Vogel's odd habit of existing almost solely on eggs and writing with a
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Erinnerungen an einen Verschollenen : Aufzeichnungen und Briefe von und über Eduard Vogel
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
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observations and to collect botanical specimens. In 1853, the expedition was in the western
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In 1853 Petermann arranged for Vogel to be chosen by the British government to join the
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at the latter institution. In 1851, he was engaged as assistant astronomer to director
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by killing a man the Emir disliked. He then became the first European to cross the
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Vogel left Barth, and taking one engineer and four servants headed for
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Instead of waiting for Barth to return, on 19 July, Vogel joined a
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was a popular German novelist. She published his notes in her
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were a Wadai clan consisting of musicians and executioners.
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expedition with supplies. That expedition had been sent to
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to catch up with Barth. Vogel arrived at the end of the
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