duroule

Updated: May 21, 2025

Nubia, the cradle of Egyptian civilization, had only been visited, since the days of the Portuguese Alvares, by Poncet and Lenoir Duroule, both Frenchmen, at the close of the seventeenth century, at the opening of the eighteenth by Bruce, whose narrative had so often been doubted, and by Norden, who had not penetrated beyond Derr.

Jules Verne - Celebrated Travels and Travellers: Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century