Lander

Lander, RICHARD, the discoverer of the mouth of the Niger, was born at Truro on 8th February 1804, and in 1825 accompanied Clapperton as his servant to Sokoto. There Clapperton died, and Lander, returning to England, published an account of the expedition. The British government then entrusted to him and his brother John (1807-39) the prosecution of further researches along the lower course of the Niger. In 1830 they proved that the Quorra, or Niger, falls by many mouths into the Bight of Benin. They published a Journal of an Expedition to Explore the Niger (3 vols. 1832). In the course of a third expedition in the same quarter, Richard Lander was wounded by the Niger natives, and died in consequence at Fernando Po on 2d or 7th Feb. 1834. The story of this third journey is contained in Laird and Oldfield's Narrative of an Expedition into the Interior of Africa by the River Niger (2 vols. 1837).