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Baker & Florence in (1864),
227
-38
Baker & Florence in (1872),
338
-41
Speke & Grant in (1863),
170
-2

Burckhardt, Johann Ludwig,
36

Burlington House,
191
-2,
210
,
243

Burton, Isabel (née Arundell, wife of Richard),
74
,
108
-9,
115
,
323

Burton, Joseph (father of Richard),
37

Burton, Martha (mother of Richard),
59
-60

Burton, Sir Richard F.,
8
,
13
,
24
,
260
,
363

admits being wrong about Nile source,
322
appearance,
45
attacks Speke’s character,
104
,
106
,
195
,
204
,
207
,
321
awarded RGS Founder’s Medal,
116
‘betrayal’ by Speke,
3
,
106
-9,
111
,
115
-16
British Raj, supporter of,
322
in Cairo,
36
,
37
,
38
-40,
42
character,
38
,
61
-4
circumcision,
36
,
44
claims Speke’s death as suicide,
203
-5
claims Tanganyika as Nile source,
207
,
210
,
310
colonialism, considers unworkable in Africa,
424
death,
322
disbelieves Speke’s Nile source,
102
,
104
,
206
disguised as native 49-50
early life,
37
education,
37
-8
engagement,
63
false memories,
104
-5
illnesses,
74
,
77
-8,
79
,
80
,
83
-4,
85
,
86
,
90
,
92
,
105
,
114
,
423
knighthood,
323
,
424
missionaries, considers misguided,
212
motivation to explore,
4
,
5
,
69
pilgrimage to Mecca,
36
and racism,
212
,
322
relationship with Speke,
46
,
58
,
61
,
104
-5,
116
,
121
,
195
RGS proposal,
115
,
116
and Rusizi River,
199
-200
serves in Crimean War,
56
in Sindh,
37
,
42
views on Africans,
75
-7,
82
,
93
,
322
,
424
views on slavery, thinks abolitionists wrong,
67
-8
writing style,
62
;
see also
Great Lakes Expedition (B. & S.); Somaliland Expedition (B. & S.)

Burundi,
145
,
316

Busoga,
348
,
407

Cadenhead, Lt Thomas, death,
424

Caesar, Julius,
23

Cairo,
36
,
37
,
38
,
40
,
41
,
42
,
107
,
189
,
214
,
240
,
391

Calcutta Museum of Nat. History,
54

Cambridge, Univ. of,
399
,
409
,
412

camels,
13
,
47
,
50
,
181
,
216
,
248
,
335

Cameron, Lt Verney Lovett,
283
,
293
,
308
,
312

Cameron Highlanders,
392
,
393

Camoens, Luis de,
322

Campbell, General Sir Colin,
46

cannabis,
27
,
90

cannibalism,
22
,
29
,
300
,
313
,
372

Cardoso, Candido de Costa,
209

Carr-Gomm, Major Richard,
412

Carter, Capt. Frederick, death,
424

Caucasus Mountains,
57

Ceylon,
63
,
220

Chad,
24
,
25
,
387
,
430

Chaille-Long, Colonel Charles,
303

Chamberlain, Joseph,
385

Chambesi, River,
250
,
288

Chavannes, Charles de,
356

Chitambo (chief),
290
,
292

Chowpereh (captain),
291
-2,
297
,
320
,
422
,
423

‘Christianity and Commerce’,
196
,
329
,
331
,
426
,
433

chronometers,
2
,
7
,
73
,
170
,
171
,
250
,
287
,
293

Chuma, James (follower of Livingstone),
18
,
28
,
254
,
285
,
291
,
293

Church Missionary Society (CMS),
293
,
345
,
380
,
383

Church of Scotland,
331

Churchill, Winston,
387
,
389
,
390
-1

Clapperton, Hugh,
72

Clarendon, Lord,
252
,
334

Coghlan, Brigadier William,
56

Collins, Professor Robert,
396

Colquhoun, Robert,
213
,
240
,
242

Colvile, Colonel Henry,
406
-7

Commoro (Latuka chief),
218
,
220
,
239
,
431

concubines,
40
,
73
,
105
,
140
,
217
,
372
,
373

Congo, River,
6
,
7
,
9
,
17
,
72
,
288
,
324
-5,
367
,
394

de Brazza’s advance on Kinshasa,
355
-7
Leopold’s plans for,
352
Stanley builds road and trading stations along,
352
-3,
324
-5
Stanley’s navigation of (1877),
319
-21;
see also
Emin Pasha Relief Expedition; Stanley’s Trans-Africa Expedition

Congo Free State,
353
,
366

Cooley, W. D.,
192

Cowley, Lord,
198

Crimean War,
56

crocodiles,
87
,
168
,
170
,
235
,
304
,
323

Daily Mail,
391

Daily Telegraph,
281,
295
,
296
,
302
,
306
,
308
,
310
,
324
,
331

Dal
(steamer),
391

Damha, Ladha (merchant),
68
,
81

Darfur,
393
,
430

Davis, Daniel (gamekeeper),
202

De Bono, Andrea (ivory trader),
41
-2,
99
,
175
,
218
,
221
,
225

de Brazza, Pierre Savorgnan,
6
,
353
,
354

attempt to seize Kinshasa,
35
,
57
treaty with Makoko,
354
,
355

Delcassé, Théophile,
392

Denbigh,
257

Derby, Lord,
343

dhows,
86
,
88
,
89
,
102
,
299
,
362

diamonds,
4
,
343
,
421

Dick, Andrew,
419

Didinga people,
400

Dinka tribe,
183
,
185
,
216
,
302
,
395
,
396
,
399
,
400

Diogenes,
26
,
39

Dixon, William Hepworth,
323

Dowden, Richard,
415

Dragon of Salem
(clipper),
106

Driberg, Jack Herbert,
400

Dualla (interpreter),
381
,
423

Dufile,
319
,
373

Dugumbé (slave trader),
31
,
32
,
33
,
255

Dutch, gunpowder,
429

East India Company,
37
,
42
,
43
,
46
,
55
,
103
,
198

Edward, Lake,
318

Eesa tribe,
52

Egypt,
1
,
303
,
357

Egypt, the Soudan and Central Africa
(Petherick),
124

elephants,
18
,
19
,
21
,
74
,
153
,
169
,
220
,
223
,
250
,
408

Emin Pasha,
349
,
350
,
359
,
363
,
365
,
370
,
373
-5,
403

death,
375
,
424

Emin Pasha Relief Expedition (1886-9): Advance Column,
369
-70

aims,
365
-6,
375
atrocities,
371
-3
preparation,
366
-8
Rear Column,
371
-3
with Emin Pasha,
370
,
373
-5
with Mackay,
374

Equatoria,
24
,
338
,
349
,
363
,
366
,
395
-6

Britain divides between Uganda and Sudan,
397
-9,
418
;
see also
Baker’s military expedition to Nile Basin

Erhardt, Dr James (missionary),
56

Eton College,
38

explorers of Africa: honours,
424

character,
4
-6,
9
dangers, deaths and hardships met,
2
-3,
8
-9,
34
-5,
40
,
51
-4,
67
,
72
,
129
,
230
-2,
236
,
253
,
266
,
287
-9,
290
-1,
298
,
306
-7,
319
-21,
321
,
423
-4
motivations,
4
-6,
9
views on future of Africa,
424
-7
work undertaken,
8
;
see also
individual explorers

Fadeela (servant),
218
,
228

Faloro,
172
,
225
,
394

Farquhar, William,
266
,
297

death,
266
,
423

Fashoda,
388
,
391
-2

Ferajji,
297

Fergusson, Capt. V. H.,
400

First Footsteps in East Africa
(R. F. Burton),
61
,
62
,
204

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