Only one of six Danish expedition members survived the journey

Evidence

Of these six, only the cartographer Carsten Niebuhr was to survive the rigours of the expedition and return to Denmark alive. But he was a remarkable and determined man and, even before reaching Arabia, he had made a systematic survey of the manners and customs of Cairo and the details of its material life, including costumes, implements, craft techniques and so forth. — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 235

Categorization

• XREF: The disastrous expedition profile fits the ‘ill-fated scholarly venture’ pattern one finds across early modern travel literature.