Andersson Carl Johann

Andersson, Carl Johann, the African explorer, born at Elfden, Sweden, in 1827. He accompanied Francis Galton to Africa, and remaining there pushed on alone to lake Ngami, of which he wrote an account (1855). Subsequently he explored the Okavango river, which formed the subject of another book in 1861. He then settled at Cape Town as an ivory trader, but died of dysentery in 1867 whilst travelling in the Ovakuambi country.