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What kinds of people were
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European explorers reached Timbuktu in the early 19th century. The ill-fated Scottish explorer Gordon Laing was the first to arrive (1826), followed by the French explorer Rene-Auguste Callie in 1828. Callie,who had studied Islam and learned Arabic, reached Timbuktu disguised as a Arab.

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