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CHARLES JOHN ANDERSSON “NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project Charles John Andersso HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES JOHN ANDERSSON CHARLES JOHN ANDERSSON 1827 March 4, Sunday: Charles John Andersson (Karl Johan Andersson) was born in Värmland in Sweden, an illegitimate child of the English bear hunter Llewellyn Lloyd and a Swedish servant. He would grow up in Sweden with his father. Friend Stephen Wanton Gould wrote in his journal: 1st day 4th of 3rd M / Our Morning Meeting was a very solid one, D Buffums preaching was good & I dont know what to say of the rest, but it certainly did not seem to me whooly clear of mixture. — In the Afternoon again we had a pretty good meeting. - I must suspend my judgement of what was offered. — Avis Mumford & Avis C Howland set the evening with us.— RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT Charles John Andersson “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES JOHN ANDERSSON CHARLES JOHN ANDERSSON 1847 Charles John Andersson matriculated at the University of Lund. HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES JOHN ANDERSSON CHARLES JOHN ANDERSSON 1849 While in London attempting to sell collected items to raise funds for farther travels, Charles John Andersson met Francis Galton. They would travel together to Southern Africa. Olinthus Gregory Downes’s translation LETTERS ADDRESSED TO H.R.H. THE GRAND DUKE OF SAXE COBURG AND GOTHA, ON THE THEORY OF PROBABILITIES, AS APPLIED TO THE MORAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES, by Adolphe Quetelet, which would inform Galton of the nature of the Laplace/Gauss distribution, the “normal curve of variation from an average.” DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? GOOD. Charles John Andersson “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES JOHN ANDERSSON CHARLES JOHN ANDERSSON 1850 Summer: Charles John Andersson and Francis Galton landed at the Cape of Good Hope. In a failed attempt to reach Lake Ngami, they would make it as far as Walvis Bay in modern-day Namibia. Galton would then return to England. LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD? — NO, THAT’S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN’S STORIES. LIFE ISN’T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD. “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project Charles John Andersson HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES JOHN ANDERSSON CHARLES JOHN ANDERSSON 1853 Charles John Andersson arrived at Lake Ngami. Francis Galton’s THE NARRATIVE OF AN EXPLORER IN TROPICAL SOUTH AFRICA. He got married with Louisa Jane Butler. HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES JOHN ANDERSSON CHARLES JOHN ANDERSSON 1854 Francis Galton, who had been awarded the Annual Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, was elected to that Society’s council. HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES JOHN ANDERSSON CHARLES JOHN ANDERSSON 1855 Francis Galton’s THE ART OF TRAVEL; OR, SHIFTS AND CONTRIVANCES AVAILABLE IN WILD COUNTRIES (2d edition 1856; 3d edition 1860; 4th edition 1867). Charles John Andersson returned to London to arrange for publication of LAKE NGAMI: OR, EXPLORATIONS AND DISCOVERIES DURING FOUR YEARS’ WANDERINGS IN THE WILDS OF SOUTH WESTERN AFRICA, and then returned to Africa. “Explorations in South Africa, with the Route from Walfisch Bay to Lake Ngami” appeared HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES JOHN ANDERSSON CHARLES JOHN ANDERSSON in Volume 25 of the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society (pages 79-107). HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES JOHN ANDERSSON CHARLES JOHN ANDERSSON 1856 Charles John Andersson’s LAKE NGAMI: OR, EXPLORATIONS AND DISCOVERIES DURING FOUR YEARS’ WANDERINGS IN THE WILDS OF SOUTH WESTERN AFRICA (New York: Harper & brothers). CHARLES JOHN ANDERSSON (In about 1857 Henry Thoreau would copy from this book in the Concord town library, into his Indian
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