“Lucja Malgorzata” - the lugger of Polish traveler Stefan Sholc - Rogozinski

Stefan Sholc - Rogozinski - a Polish traveler, an explorer of Africa (specifically Cameroon) - was born on April 14, 1861 in Kalisz, and died on December 1, 1896 in Paris. In 1878, under his father will entered the Kronstadt Naval Academy, graduating on April 29, 1880, when he passed the examinations and received the rank of officer. He was soon assigned to the sailing cruiser “General – Admiral” and sailed for Vladivostok. In May 1881, on arrival in Paris, he was admitted to the Paris Society of Geographers. In Naples, he devised a plan for an expedition to Cameroon. Mom donated her savings to the expedition, but it was not enough. Rogozinski then began to promote his trip to Warsaw as a national mission to draw the world's attention to Poland. On December 13, 1882, a traveler bought the “Lucja Malgorzata”, a lugger, in France and sailed on it. Off the coast of Cameroon, he bought the island of Mondolecho for a black jacket, a hat-cylinder and three boxes of gin, where he set up an expedition base. Rogozinski explored the coast of Cameroon, the mouth of the Mungo River, and discovered Lake Elephant. In 1882, a Polish colony was established in Cameroon, which did not last long, as the English and Germans landed here as early as 1884. The colony went from hand to hand. At the end of 1884 he returned to his homeland, where he married, and at the end of 1886 he returned to Africa, bought the plantation, but did not make a profit. Member of the Royal Society of Geographers, London, since 1885. From 1892 to 1893 he traveled around Egypt. Planning another trip, he went to Paris in 1896, where he died under the wheels of the Paris omnibus.

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