LANDER, RICHARD LEMON

(i80434), an English explorer; 6. at Truro, Cornwall. In 1825 he accompanied Hugh Clapper ton on his second expedition to W. Africa, and was with his leader at his death at Sokoto (1829), publishing Clapper ton’s journal in 1829, with additions of his own as Journal of Richard Lander from Kano to the Coast, followed by Records of Captain Clapper ton’s Last Haxpedition to Africa, 1830. In 1830 L. was sent, with his brother John (1807-39), by the British government to explore the lower course of the Niger, an account of which they published in 1832 as Journal of an Expedition to Explore the Niger. During a second expedition to the Niger in 1834 L. was killed by natives. S.W. department, B'rance; area, 3604 sq. miles; watered by Adour; large forests, produces resin, charcoal, rock-salt, iron; horses bred. Pop. 300,000. (2) (44° 30’ N., 0° 55’ W.), district, S.W. France, occupying parts of dept’s of L., Gironde, and Lot-et-Garonne. Mainly covered by pine forests and fields, town, Pru . Silesia, Germany. Pop. 15,000.