Parfait-Louis MonteilWest Africa showing the general route taken by Parfait-Louis Monteil during his 1890–1892 expedition. The route to Lake Chad was mainly through Sudanian Savanna, grasslands with scattered trees to the south of the drier Sahel.
Parfait-Louis Monteil (1855 – 29 September 1925) was a French colonial military officer and explorer who made an epic journey in West Africa between 1890 and 1892, travelling east from Senegal to Lake Chad, and then north across the Sahara to Tripoli.[1]
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