Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure (72 page)

5
. Speke to JB 17 Apr 1860 4154 NLS.

6
.
Annals
11I 97.

7
. Speke to JB 28 Mar 1860 4154 NLS.

8
. Maitland 107.

9
. Speke to Shaw 28 Oct 1859 RGS.

10
. Speke to JB 11 Apr 1860 4143 NLS; Speke to JB 5 Nov 1859 4143 NLS.

11
. Udal 1 504; Instructions for Consul Petherick’s proposed expedition up the White Nile in Aid of Captains Speke and Grant 8 Feb 1861,
PRGS
Vol. IX 8 Apr 1864 256.

12
. ‘Tail’ 376.

13
. Speke to Shaw 28 Oct, 5 Nov 1859 RGS.

14
. CV memorandum Grant Papers MS 17924 NLS; Maitland 11i; Speke to Shaw 23 March 1860 RGS.

15
. JB to Speke 27 March 1860 30012 NLS.

16
. Obit
Blackwood’s Magazine
Vol. XCVI Oct 1864 514-16.

17
. Maitland 105; Speke to JB 26 Aug 1859, and n.d. 1859 NLS.

18
.
Journal
450.

19
. PRO/30122 31 Jul 1863 173 ff.

20
.
A Walk Across Africa
James. A. Grant [Walk] 18-19.

21
.
Journal
23.

22
. Ibid 24-32; Speke to Rigby 12 Dec 1860 RGS;
Walk
22-3.

23
. Ibid 32.

24
.
Journal
39.

25
. Ibid 47-8.

26
. Ibid 51.

27
. Speke to Rigby 12 Dec 1860 RGS.

28
.
Journal
46.

29
. Ibid 60.

30
. Ibid 72-74, 87;
Walk
53;
AN
298-335.

31
.
Journal
76-7; Speke to Shaw 12 Dec 1860 RGS.

32
.
Walk
48 ff;
Journal
85.

33
. Ibid 83, 89.

34
.
Walk
59;
Journal
90-i.

35
.
Journal
93, 100.

36
. Ibid 95-7.

37
. Ibid 94-103.

38
. Ibid 88, 100.

39
. Maitland 131 ff;
Walk
55, 77;
Journal
109 ff.

40
. Ibid 110-16.

41
. Ibid 117-22.

42
. Ibid 122-7.

43
.
Walk
107, 115-16, 121.

44
.
Journal
129-41.

45
.
Walk
122.

46
. Ibid 94, 128.

47
.
Journal
157, 149.

48
. Ibid 162.

49
. Ibid 167.

50
.
Walk
138.

51
.
Journal
168-86.

52
. Ibid 172, 189.

53
. Ibid 198-200.

54
. Ibid 215-16.

55
. Quoted in
Journey to the Source of the Nile
Christopher Ondaatje [Ondaatje] 201.

56
.
Journal
200-i; Maitland 145.

NINE: As Refulgent as the Sun

1
.
Journal
218, 224;
Quest for the Secret Nile
Guy Yeoman [Yeoman] 50.

2
.
Journal
221-2.

3
. Ibid 226-7.

4
.
Journal
manuscript p. 1 Ms 4872 NLS (microfilm version in BL Shelf-mark YC 2006.a.7908 pt 2).

5
. Speke to RM n.d. but 20 Feb 1862 RGS.

6
.
Journal
232-40.

7
. Ibid 241-2.

8
. Ibid 289.

9
. Ibid 243, 275-7.

10
. Ibid 246-9;
Journal
proofs 11 4873 NLS.

11
.
Journal
253-4, 266-7, 304.

12
. Speke to Petherick 26 Mar 1862 copy of letter RGS.

TEN: An Arrow into the Heart

1
.
Journal
proofs 27 March 1862 NLS.

2
.
Journal
291.

3
.
The Peoples of Africa
J. L. Newman; ‘Origins of Political Conflicts & Peace Building in the Great Lakes Region’ G. P. Mpangala.

4
.
Journal
ms 1 and
Journal
book proofs p 1 30 March 1862 NLS;
Journal
296-7.

5
.
Journal
299.

6
.
Journal
ms 2, 16 Apr 1862;
Journal
book proofs 58.

7
.
Journal
304;
Journal
book proofs 7 Apr 1862.

8
.
Journal
ms 11, 12 Apr 1862;
Journal
306.

9
.
Journal
book proofs 8, 10 Apr 1862.

10
.
Journal
ms 2 May 1862;
Journal
321.

11
.
Journal
ms 9 May 1862;
Journal
book proofs 73.

12
.
Journal
ms 2 Jun 1862;
Journal
book proofs 81.

13
.
Journal
326;
Journal
ms 6 May 1862.

14
. Ibid 3 May 1862 113-15.

15
. Ondaatje 200; Hall,
Lovers
90.

16
.
Journal
book proofs 73 cut from
Journal
338.

17
.
Journal
338.

18
. Maitland 158.

19
.
Journal
315-16, 318.

20
. Ibid 301.

21
. Speke’s drawing of Mutesa in notebook at RGS;
Journal
337.

22
. Ibid 229-30.

23
.
Walk
219, 223, 227.

24
.
Journal
335.

25
.
Journal
ms 10, 13 Jun 1862.

26
.
Journal
345-59, 328;
bana
or
bwana
meaning father or lord, via Swahili from Arabic
abuna
– ‘our father’.

ELEVEN: Nothing Could Surpass It!

1
.
Walk
267 gives Speke’s numbers.

2
. Ibid 246-7;
Journal
363.

3
.
Walk
248; Maitland 169.

4
.
Journal
364-5.

5
. Maitland 170;
Journal
369-72.

6
.
Walk
275.

7
.
Journal
381.

8
. Ibid 388.

9
. Ibid 399, 402, 406-08;
Walk
285-8.

10
.
Journal
397, 404;
Africa in the Nineteenth Century until the 1880s
J. F. Ade Ajayi 109;
Walk
287.

11
.
Journal
438, 431-2;
Walk
299.

12
. Ibid 310.

13
. Ibid 312; Journal 448 f.

14
.
Walk
315, 309.

15
. Ibid 319;
Journal
449-50.

16
. Ibid 448, 453-4;
Walk
327; Catania 276 ff.

17
.
Journal
467.

18
. Ibid 457;
Walk
339.

19
. Ibid 346;
Journal
463.

20
. Ibid 469-70.

21
. Ibid 470.

TWELVE: The Nile is Settled

1
. Hall,
Lovers
14-15, 33.

2
. DL to Agnes L Sept 1869 Ad ms 50184 BL; Udal 1 505-6.

3
. Hall,
Lovers
26 ff; R. E. H. Bailey’s statement about Florence 19 Jul 1971 Anne Baker Collection, Salisbury.

4
.
AN
62-3.

5
. Samuel W. Baker diary [BD] 15 Feb 1863 SWB1 RGS;
Walk
336;
Journal
471.

6
.
Journal
470-1.

7
.
Walk
366; Udal 1 529; Hall,
Lovers
89.

8
. Ibid 89;
Walk
366; Grant to JB 22 Oct 1866 4209 NLS.

9
.
AN
64; Hall,
Lovers
90-1.

10
. Hall,
Lovers
94.

11
. Mrs Petherick’s Journal written in 1861 (original in Wellcome Library), extract published in
Blackwood’s Magazine
Vol. XCI Jun 1862, 560;
PRGS
Vol. V11I 25 Apr 1864.

12
. BD 30 Jan 1863; Speke to JB n.d. except 1863 NLS. Baker had learned from the Austrian priest, Father Morlang, that Petherick had never come closer to Gondokoro than the Bahr el-Ghazal. Speke had been told the same thing by Khursid Agha and by Baker and so felt he had been tricked.