Crossword-Solution: BENUE 5 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

From a drawing in the account of Lander's _Travels_, 1835.] On 25th October they found the waters of the Niger were joined by another large river known to-day as the Benue, the Mother of Waters, flowing in from the east.

Probably the parent speech was spoken originally in the very heart of Africa, somewhere between the basins of the Upper Nile, the Bahr-al-ghazal, the Mubangi, and the Upper Benue.

June 11--Garua, an important station on the Benue River, Kamerun, German West Africa, surrenders unconditionally to an Anglo-French force.

The expedition had been instructed to endeavour to afford assistance to Heinrich Barth (_q.v._), who had in 1851 crossed the Benue in its upper course, but Baikie was unable to gain any trustworthy information concerning him.

Landing from a small boat, with one or two native followers, at the confluence of the Niger and Benue, he chose Lokoja as the base of his future operations, it being the site of the model farm established by the expedition sent by the British government in 1841, and abandoned within a twelve-month on the death of most of the white settlers (see Capt.