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5 letters word
6 points in Scrabble
8 points in WWF

Definitions for NIGER in dictionary:

NOUN:

(obsolete) a negro, also NIGGER
obsolete offensive term for a Black person
an African river; flows into the South Atlantic
a landlocked republic in West Africa; gained independence from France in 1960; most of the country is dominated by the Sahara Desert

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It seems to me as if I sprang from good father Niger himself, from the wondrous fertility of his waters.
In 1821, a third attempt to explore the Niger was made by a Major Laing, who failed in his efforts to reach Timbuctoo, and fell a victim to Mahometan intolerance.
In this journey the adventurous travellers landed at Badagry, and crossed through Yarriba to the Niger.
With a flotilla of sixty of these vessels he descended the Niger several hundred miles to Timbuctoo.
His Alliance sought by Pescennius Niger, Part taken by Parthia in the Contest between Niger and Severus, Mesopotamia revolts from Rome.
Immediately the news reached them the Niger Company sent out an English expedition to Nikki, the capital of Borgu, to try and get the treaty ahead of France.
Haematopus picatus ? Haematopus niger ? Numenius australasianus, Gould.
When the smoke cleared the Niger was observed to be settling down forward.
It was appointed him to traverse the continent of Africa from east to west, in the latitude of the river Niger.
On the other bank of the Niger, England, through the Royal Niger Company, has made treaties with the native chiefs, and thus gained a good foothold.

He next marched against Niger, and defeated him in two battles, while he was also successful in a severe contest with Clodius Albinus at Lyons.
After working at his trade in various parts of England, and on board ship, he went for a year to the West African coast at the mouth of the Niger as a foreman engineer.
The failure of the Niger expedition of 1841 was a blow from which he never recovered.
He had been thirsty, like this, ever since he struck the bend of the Niger.
During this reach the Niger makes a great change of direction from north-east to almost due south.
The Niger must after all yield very considerably to the Missouri and Orellana, those stupendous rivers of the new world.
There is one feature in which the Niger may defy competition from any river, either of the old or new world.
Between this point and Timbuctoo, we have no means of knowing whether any or what rivers fall into the Niger.
The thought of seeing the Niger in the morning, and the buzzing of the mosquitoes, kept Mr.
In the middle of December, Karfa, who proposed to complete his purchase of slaves, departed for Kancaba, a large town on the banks of the Niger, and a great slave market.
Nothing had ever been discovered adverse to the hypothesis that identified the Niger with the Congo, which still retained a strong hold on the public mind.
On this journey he found reason to believe, that the source of the Niger lay much further to the south than was supposed by Park.
The travellers, in their ill-judged confidence in his friendship, requested him to furnish a boat, in which they might descend the Niger.
The travellers pursued their journey along the banks of the Niger, although the path was filled with water, and broken up by the force of the rains.
He was convinced, he said, that they would return in safety to their country by way of the Niger, which did not contain a single rock from Inguazhilligee to Funda.
Inguazhilligee is the first town on the Wowow ground, all above, on the western bank of the Niger, belonging to Boossa.
Having at length received permission to quit Zagozhi on the following day, to pursue their journey down the Niger, they made the necessary preparations for their departure.
The Niger affords a channel of communication with the most fertile, most industrious, and most improved regions of interior Africa.
The expedition was expected to enter the Niger in six or seven weeks, and to return to England in about nine months.
And as he considered it dangerous to declare himself hostile to both, he decided to attack Niger and to deceive Albinus.
Herodotus tells of certain youths who penetrated the desert to the Niger and found there a city of black dwarfs.
Finally he concentrated his forces for the destruction of Melle and subdued nearly the whole empire on the west bend of the Niger.

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