The 18th Century Search for the Blue Nile

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Photograph of Tisisat Falls in 2006

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James Bruce depicted in a cartoon in Ethiopia

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A picture of a historic section of Gondar, Ethiopia.

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Image of the top part of Bruce's opening page to the flora section of volume six.

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Comte de Buffon's incorporation of James Bruce Fennec in his Historie Naturelle

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An Image of Bruce's Fennec from his Travels

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Photograph of the historic port of Massawa

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Photograph of historical ruins in the city of Palmyra

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An example of a clay house with a thatched, cone-shaped roof, similar to that described by James Bruce. Photographed in Benin in West Africa

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James Bruce's map of East Africa as published in 1790
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