Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure
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Uledi (Wangwana porter), 129, 132, 162, 163, 282, 292, 297, 320, 422
United States of America, 385
Civil War, 260
Indian Wars, 263, 306
(Union) Army, 260
(Union) Navy, 260
Unyanyembe, 9, 96, 247, 277, 293
Unyoro, 339
Urondogani, 167
Usagara Mountains, 73, 79-80
Usambara, 362
Usambiro, 374
Usavara, 301
Usui, 136, 138
Uzaramo, 129
Victoria, Lake, 83, 92, 310, 362
altitude, 99, 207
and L. Albert, 213, 241
renaming of, 126
as source of Nile, 83, 190, 232, 301
Speke’s discovery, 98-100
Stanley’s circumnavigation, 299-306
Victoria, Queen, 28, 382, 391
Victoria Nyanza, see Victoria, Lake von der Decken, Baron Klaus, death, 423
Wad-el-Mek, Mohammed (slave trader), 175, 176, 177, 225, 238, 394
Wadelai, 350
Wadi Halfa, 391
Wadi Nogal, Somaliland 48, 49
Wadi Safeni (interpreter), 305, 320
death, 321
Wagogo people, 130-1, 134
Wahuma, 156, 386
Wainwright, Jacob, 292, 293
Waldecker, Dr Burckhardt, 316
Waldron, Sir John, 413
Waller, Horace, 280, 291
Wangwana porters, 128, 130, 132, 137, 166, 189, 266, 319, 348, 372, 422
Wanyaturu tribe, 298
Wanyoro people, 168, 169, 171
Warundi tribe, 88, 91-2
Watuta tribe, 133, 136
Wavuma tribe, 307
Webb, Capt. Francis, 264, 280
Wenya people, 31, 313
Westminster Abbey, 293, 295, 331
What Led to the Discovery of the
Source of the Nile (Speke), 54, 95, 110, 198, 206
Wheatley, Major Mervyn J., 400
White Nile, see Nile, River
Williams, Capt. Ashley, 3 81
Winchester rifles, 355
Wingate, General Reginald, 391, 397, 400, 403
Wissmann, Hermann von, 6
Witu, 377
Witwatersrand, 4, 385
The Wizard of the Nile (M. Green), 416
Wolseley, General Sir Garnet, 307, 357, 388
Yao people, 28
Yambuya, 368, 369
Young, James, 293
Yule, Henry, 324
Zambezi, River, 14, 26, 178, 273
Zambezi Expedition (Livingstone, 1858-64), 14-15, 27, 200, 209, 211, 272, 331, 425
Zamboni tribe, 370
Zanzibar, 15, 27, 39, 42, 63, 64, 65, 67
slave market, 15, 67, 249
Zanzibar: City, Island and Coast (R. F. Burton), 204
Zimbabwe, 75
Zulu, 133
Zungomero, 79
David Livingstone in 1866 before his last departure from Britain.
Richard Burton posing in Arab clothes in 1865, a year after Speke’s death.
Richard Burton in his tent in Somaliland.
John Hanning Speke as a young officer in India.
Speke before his great journey.
Speke’s memorial in Kensington Gardens.
Samuel Baker in his African hunting attire.
Florence von Sass before her marriage to Samuel Baker.
The Royal Geographical Society outing during the meeting of the British Association in Bath, 1864. Livingstone is standing left of centre, wearing his distinctive cap. Further right is Sir Roderick Murchison in a white suit.
Henry Stanley aged twenty-eight, two years before he ‘found’ Dr Livingstone.
Livingstone’s servants Chuma and Susi.
Some of Stanley’s principal Wangwana carriers on his great trans-Africa journey.
Karl Peters, the German explorer and imperialist.
Princess Salme, sister of the Sultan of Zanzibar.
Captain T. M. S. Pasley RN, who rescued Princess Salme.
James S. Jameson, who sketched a girl being killed, cooked and eaten.
Major Edmund Barttelot, who flogged men to death and was murdered.
Stanley (aged forty-six) and Anthony Swinburne, his young station chief at Kinshasa, who saved the Congo for Leopold II of Belgium.
Captain Frederick Lugard soon after claiming Uganda for Britain.
Kabarega of Bunyoro in old age. He died while returning to his country after twenty-four years of exile.
Henry Stanley in 1892 with his close friend Sir William Mackinnon, whose Imperial British East Africa company financed Britain’s early presence in Uganda.
Major-General Sir Horatio Kitchener at the time of the battle of Omdurman.
Marchand’s emissaries approach Kitchener’s ship.
Commandant Marchand claimed Fashoda on the Nile for France.
Sir Harold MacMichael, Britain’s top civil servant in Sudan 1926-33. He ignored the people of southern Sudan with dire consequences for the future.
A fifteenth-century reconstruction of Ptolemy’s second-century world map. The White Nile is shown originating from twin sources close to a mountain range. (See pp. 25-6)
Richard Burton depicted as an Afghan peddler in his wife’s posthumously published biography of him.
John Speke and James Grant at Mutesa’s court.
A naked Mutesa drawn by Speke.
Speke portrayed standing at the Ripon Falls source.
African birds drawn by Speke.
Samuel Baker and Florence von Sass in a storm on Lake Albert.
Obbo warriors perform a war dance, as sketched by Samuel Baker.
Baker’s sketch of himself in danger of being trampled by an elephant.
James Gordon Bennett Jr, editor of the New York Herald, who was persuaded by Henry Stanley to send him to find Livingstone.
Hats worn by Livingstone and Stanley at the time of their meeting.
The Makata swamp crossed by Stanley.
Stanley watches a phalanx dance by Chief Mazamboni’s warriors.
Livingstone’s remains being carried to the coast by his men.
† The local silver currency in Zanzibar, worth about £1 sterling for five coins.
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Plates
Maps
Introduction
PART I Solving the Mystery
1 Blood in God’s River
2 A Great Misalliance
3 A Rush of Men Like a Stormy Wind
4 About a Rotten Person
5 Everything Was to be Risked for This Prize
6 Promises and Lies
7 A Blackguard Business
8 Our Adventurous Friend
9 As Refulgent as the Sun
10 An Arrow into the Heart
11 Nothing Could Surpass It!
12 The Nile is Settled
13 A Hero’s Aberrations
14 Death in the Afternoon
15 The Doctor’s Dilemma
16 The Glory of Our Prize
17 A Trumpet Blown Loudly
18 Almost in Sight of the End
19 Never to Give Up the Search Until I Find Livingstone
20 The Doctor’s Obedient and Devoted Servitor
21 Threshing Out the Beaten Straw
22 Nothing Earthly Will Make Me Give Up My Work
23 Where Will You Be? Dead or Still Seeking the Nile?
24 The Unknown Half of Africa Lies Before Me
PART 2 The Consequences
25 Shepherds of the World?
26 Creating Equatoria
27 An Unheard of Deed of Blood
28 Pretensions on the Congo
29 An Arabian Princess and a German Battle Squadron
30 ‘Saving’ Emin Pasha and Uganda
31 The Prime Minister’s Protectorate
32 To Die for the Mahdi’s Cause
33 Equatoria and the Tragedy of Sou
thern Sudan
34 A Sin not Theirs: The Tragedy of Northern Uganda
CODA Lacking the Wand of an Enchanter
APPENDIX Fifty Years of Books on the Search for the Nile’s Source
Acknowledgements
Sources
Notes
Index