CHARLES JOHN ANDERSSON
“NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY
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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
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1847
Charles John Andersson matriculated at the University of Lund. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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in Volume 25 of the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society (pages 79-107). HDT WHAT? INDEX
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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 HDT WHAT? INDEX
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Notebook #10 and his Fact Book.) HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1859
Charles John Andersson arrived at the Okavango River. He would describe this expedition in his book THE OKAVANGO RIVER, A NARRATIVE OF TRAVEL, EXPLORATION AND ADVENTURE.
THE FUTURE CAN BE EASILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT
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1861
Charles John Andersson’s THE OKAVANGO RIVER, A NARRATIVE OF TRAVEL, EXPLORATION AND ADVENTURE (London). HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1867
July 9, Tuesday: Charles John Andersson had ventured toward the Portuguese settlements in Angola to the north, in order to establish better communications with Europe and make his trade easier. Unable to cross the Cunene River, attempting to return toward the south, he died in Angola. The body would be buried by Axel Ericsson, in what is now Namibia. Eventually his father would edit his notes from some of his expeditions as NOTES OF TRAVEL IN SOUTH-WESTERN AFRICA.
CHANGE IS ETERNITY, STASIS A FIGMENT
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1873
Charles John Andersson’s THE LION AND THE ELEPHANT (London). HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1875
Charles John Andersson’s NOTES OF TRAVEL IN SOUTH-WESTERN AFRICA (New York), as edited by his father. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1987
Charles John Andersson. THE MATCHLESS COPPER MINE IN 1857: CORRESPONDENCE OF MANAGER C.J. ANDERSSON, edited by Brigitte Lau. Windhoek, Namibia: National Archives. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1989
Charles John Andersson. TRADE AND POLITICS IN CENTRAL NAMIBIA 1860-1864: DIARIES AND CORRESPONDENCE. Windhoek, Namibia: Archives Services Division, Department of National Education.
“MAGISTERIAL HISTORY” IS FANTASIZING, HISTORY IS CHRONOLOGY
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ARRGH AUTOMATED RESEARCH REPORT
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This stuff presumably looks to you as if it were generated by a human. Such is not the case. Instead, someone has requested that we pull it out of the hat of a pirate who has grown out of the shoulder of our pet parrot “Laura” (as above). What these chronological lists are: they are research reports compiled by ARRGH algorithms out of a database of modules which we term the Kouroo Contexture (this is data mining). To respond to such a request for information we merely push a button. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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