Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure (70 page)

8
. This information about Speke is in James August Grant’s Papers 17931 NLS.

9
.
Zanzibar
II 377.

10
. Ibid 376-7.

11
. Ibid 378; Maitland 20-i;
WLT
1-2 and n.

12
.
WLT
20.

13
. Ibid 23.

14
. Maitland 23 ff.

15
.
WLT
104; Maitland 31.

16
. Ibid 112 n.

17
. Kennedy 87.

18
.
Zanzibar
II 383.

19
. Burton to Shaw 25 Feb 1859 RGS.

20
. Carnochan 31;
FF
II 98.

21
.
WLT
125.

22
. Ibid 127-8.

23
.
FF
II 100, 105.

24
.
Life
1 219-20; Lt G. E. Herne to Burton April 1855 in
The Search for the Source of the Nile: [etc]
ed. Donald Young [QK book] 44 ff.

25
. In
WLT
132 Speke wrote ‘retiring’, rather than ‘running’, the word used by Burton in
Zanzibar
II 386.

26
.
WLT
133.

27
.
Zanzibar
II 386; in
Life
1 220, Burton has Speke leave the tent last, which Burton contradicts in the more convincing account given by him in
Zanzibar
II 386.

28
.
Life
1 221; Lovell 180.

29
. Maitland 37; Lovell 180.

30
.
WLT
138-40.

31
.
Life
1 221.

32
. QK book 35.

33
.
WLT
145, 148; Maitland 43.

34
. Godsall 145;
Zanzibar
II 385.

35
.
WLT
116.

36
. Ibid 144; Speke to Playfair 24 Oct 1859 quoted in Maitland 49.

FOUR: About a Rotten Person

1
. Lovell 182.

2
. Brodie 131.

3
.
Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society [PRGS]
Vol. 1 26 Nov and 10 Dec 1855.

4
. Burton to Shaw 9 April 1856 RGS; Godsall 149.

5
. Burton to Shaw 19 Apr 1856 RGS.

6
.
The Life of Laurence Oliphant
Philip Henderson 52;
WLT
150.

7
. Maitland 53;
WLT
151.

8
.
WLT
157.

9
.
The Lake Regions of Central Africa
Richard F. Burton 2 vols
[LR]
1 Preface 2.

10
.
Zanzibar
II 376-7.

11
. Maitland 14-15.

12
. Georgina Speke to John Blackwood [JB] ii Sept 1860 4154 NLS.

13
. Speke to Shaw 20 n.d but either March or May 1857 RGS; Georgina Speke to JB ii Sept 1860 4154 NLS.

14
. Speke to JB 5 Nov 1859 4153 NLS.

15
. Brodie 26.

16
. Proofs of
Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile [Journal
proofs] 16 April p. 58 4873 NLS.

17
. Speke to JB ? Apr 1860 f 112 NLS.

18
. Speke to JB 27 March 1860 NLS.

19
. Brodie 152. This version of Speke’s sexual nature and character would be echoed by all but one of Burton’s subsequent biographers.

20
. Speke to Grant n.d. but 1855 in ‘Nogal Country’ NLS.

21
.
Burton: Snow upon the Desert
Frank McLynn [McLynn] 106;
Laurence Oliphant
Anne Taylor 67; Brodie 168-9;
The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
W. H. Wilkins and Isabel Burton 2 vols 1 144.

22
. McLynn 52, 180; Kennedy 214; Lovell 36.

23
. Brodie 105.

24
.
Zanzibar
II 381-2.

25
. Speke to Shaw 28 Oct 1859 RGS.

26
.
FF
II 107, 143.

27
. Maitland 54.

28
. McLynn 55 describes ‘Burton’s rococo prose style’ as ‘a serious strike against him’. JB to J. Delane 8 Dec 1863 on the ‘genuineness’ and effectiveness of Speke’s ‘quaint’ style, quoted in
Annals of a Publishing House
Mrs Gerald Porter 3 vols
[Annals]
III 97.

29
. Lovell 220.

30
. Francis Galton quoted in Brodie 42.

31
. Quoted in
In Search of Sir Richard Burton: Papers from a Huntington Library Symposium
Alan Jutzi [Jutzi] 15.

32
. Lovell 228.

FIVE: Everything Was to be Risked for This Prize

1
.
WLT
168.

2
.
Zanzibar
1 180.

3
.
WLT
161.

4
. Ibid 162, 166;
Zanzibar
11 57-8; Godsall 162-3; Rebmann to Burton 21 March 1859 Quentin Keynes Collection BL [QK/BL].

5
.
WLT
166-7. In fact on his next journey Speke went via Unyanyembe as before; Maitland 60.

6
.
LR
1 75.

7
.
Zanzibar
I 81.

8
.
WLT
190.

9
.
Zanzibar
1 351-2.

10
. Ibid 453-63;
LR
11 310 ff; Brodie 145.

11
.
LR
11 308-13; McLynn 214; Speke to Grant 22 Mar 1864 17931 NLS;
WLT
218-19;
Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
John Speke
[Journal]
42, 45.

12
.
Zanzibar
1 484;
WLT
189; ibid 484-5.

13
. Ibid 488-9; 168.

14
.
Life
1 258.

15
.
Zanzibar
1 260-1.

16
.
Zanzibar
11 292.

17
. Godsall 155.

18
.
Zanzibar
1 7; Burton to Shaw 19 Apr 1856 RGS; Burton to Sec Bombay Govt 28 Apr 1854, quoted Godsall 115.

19
.
WLT
186.

20
.
Zanzibar
11 179-80, 285;
Zanzibar
1 479-82;
Life
1 281;
WLT
193, 210-12;
LR
1 121 f.

21
.
LR
1 120; Godsall 168;
WLT
197.

22
.
Zanzibar
11 286-8;
WLT
195.

23
. Lovell 245; the author claims that Frost lied because Burton had offended him in some unspecified way.

24
.
LR
1 46.

25
. Ibid 58-71.

26
.
Zanzibar
11 222-3.

27
.
LR
1 78-9, 238;
WLT
266.

28
.
Life
1 110; Brodie 51; ‘Captain Speke’s Discovery of the Victoria Nyanza’
Blackwood’s Magazine
Vol. LXXXVI Jul-Dec 1859 Part 3, 577;
Zanzibar
11 378; Lovel 254.

29
.
LR
1 88, 165-6.

30
. Ibid 89;
Zanzibar
11 269, 96;
LR
1 89; Lovell 260;
The White Nile
Alan Moorehead [Moorehead] 45-6; Kennedy 115.

31
.
WLT
285, 277; H. M. Stanley to Grant 23 Dec 1878 Royal Museum of Central Africa [RMCA].

32
.
LR
1 388.

33
.
LR
1 81; also quoted Jutzi 39-40.

34
.
LR
1 172-3.

35
.
Zanzibar
11 388.

36
. Speke to Shaw 2 Jul 1858 RGS.

37
.
Blackwood’s Magazine
Vol. LXXXVI Jul-Dec 1859 Part 3, 339; Burton to Norton Shaw 19 Apr 1856 RGS;
Zanzibar
11 389.

38
.
Life
1 283-4.

39
.
LR
1 175-6;
Life
1 285, 284.

40
. Ibid 286-7.

41
.
LR
1 194-7;
Life
1 287.

42
.
WLT
196-7;
LR
1 217-18.

43
. Ibid 283-4.

44
. McLynn 216.

45
.
Journal
72-8.

46
.
WLT
198-9.

47
. Ibid 199-200.

48
.
LR
1 284-5;
WLT
200;
LR
1 336.

49
. Lovell 263 and her associated notes 55, 57 and 58;
WLT
200.

50
. That command did pass to Speke is made clear by the notes which Burton made in the margins of his personal copy of Speke’s
What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
(now in the Huntington Library). Where he disagreed with a statement, Burton would usually write ‘rot’, as when Speke claimed to have cheered him up in his sickness. On other occasions he disagreed more elaborately, or with a simple ‘no’. But Burton made no comment of any kind against Speke’s claim to have taken command, implying assent.