Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure (80 page)

Five Weeks in a Balloon
(Jules Verne),
41
-2

Fola Rapids (Nile),
42

Forte,
HMS,
127

‘Forty Thieves’,
336
,
340

Fowooka (chief),
237
,
238

France,
56
,
197
-8,
354
,
355
,
357
-8,
375
,
385
,
387
,
392
-3,
395
,
406
,
429

Anglo-French Declaration,
393

and ‘bridge across Africa’,
357

Free Church of Scotland,
331

French Geographical Society,
168

Frij (porter),
128

Fuller, George P. (cousin of J. Speke),
202
,
205

Fuller, John B. (uncle of J. Speke),
202

Furious,
HMS,
107
,
114
,
115

Gabon,
197
,
353

Gaetano (cook),
86
,
96

Galton, Francis,
116

Gani,
153
,
163
,
166
,
171

Gardner, Edward (follower of Livingstone),
18
,
28
,
285
,
293

Geography
(Ptolemy),
26

George, Lake,
318
,
377

German East Africa (Tanganyika),
316
,
362
-3,
377

Germany,
6
,
347
,
358
,
359
,
366
,
373
,
374
,
375
,
376
,
377
,
385
,
393
,
429

Anglo-German Agreement (1886),
362
-3

Gessi, Romolo,
318

Gladstone, William Ewart,
334
,
350
,
382
,
383
,
384

Gneisenau
SMS (cruiser),
362

gold,
4
,
385
,
411

Gondokoro,
41
,
101
,
119
,
166
,
170
,
175
,
177
,
215
,
216
,
233

Baker in,
335
-7,
337
,
395

Speke & Grant in,
180
-7

Gordon, General Charles,
302
,
307
,
348
,
363
,
396
,
403

death,
349
-50,
386
,
394
,
404

Grant, Capt. James Augustus,
4
,
6
,
125
,
127
,
169
,
173

appearance,
180

character,
126
,
166
,
242

illnesses,
143
,
166
,
423

reaction to Baker’s knighthood,
244
;
see also
Nile Source Expedition (Speke & Grant, 1863)

Graphic,
Livingstone’s obituary,
294
,
329

Great Britain: Anglo-French Declaration,
393

and Empire,
127
,
141
,
343
,
355
,
356
,
357
-8,
362
-3,
375
,
377
,
382
,
385
,
387
,
391
,
397
,
426
-7

responsible for fate of southern Sudan,
398
-403,
405

responsible for north-south divide in Uganda,
408
-9,
416
-18

and slave trade,
282
-3,
312
,
426
-7,
429
-30,
433

takes in Ugandan Asians,
420

Great Lakes Expedition (Burton & Speke, 1856-9),
65
,
66
,
73
-105,
323

armoury,
74

B. applies for leadership of,
57

B. dissuaded from direct route,
67

B.’s inaction over murder of slave girl,
105

B. invites S.,
58

chronometer failure,
73
,
78

dispute over debts, unpaid porters,
110
,
119
-21

in Kazeh,
81
-2,
93

and porters,
72
,
73
,
79
,
81
,
83
,
96
,
103
,
110

preparations,
70
-2

return to Zanzibar,
103
,
105

S. crosses Tanganyika,
86
-8

S. discovers L. Victoria,
96
,
98
-100

S. estimates altitude of L. Victoria,
99

S. learns of river issuing from Tanganyika,
85
,
88

in Ujiji,
84
-6,
91
-2

in Usagara Mountains,
79
-80

voyage on L. Tanganyika,
90
-1

in Zanzibar,
65
,
67
-9,
70
-2

‘great Nile debate’,
201
,
202

Green, Matthew,
415

Greenwich Mean Time,
73
,
78

Greindl, Baron Jules,
325

Grey, Sir George,
196

Haile Selassie, Emperor,
414

Hakki, Madame,
375

Hamerton, Lt-Col Atkins,
67
,
72
,
119

death,
73

distrust of Burton,
72

Hancock, General,
263

Hannington, Bishop James,
348
-9,
363

death,
378
,
424

Harar,
4
,
43
,
46
,
49
,
55

Harcourt, Sir William,
382

Hassani (slave trader),
29
,
30

Hatzfeld-Wildenburg, Count,
376

Heligoland Treaty,
377
-8

Hembé (Uzarambo chief),
129

Henry, John,
371

Herne, Lt G. E.,
44
,
51

Herodotus,
25
,
253

Hicks Pasha, William,
351

Highflyer,
HMS,
360

hippopotomi,
74
,
98
,
128
,
159
,
168
,
173
,
205
,
233
,
235
,
323
,
372

Hirth, Mgr, Jean-Joseph,
380
,
381

Homer,
23

Hotten, John Camden,
281

How I Found Livingstone
(Stanley),
269
,
270
,
272
,
275
,
278

Hyndman, H. M.,
324

Ibrahim (slave and ivory trader),
28
,
217
,
221
,
238

Iga, Ignatius,
412

Ikuta Yacongo,
315
;
see also
Congo River

Imperial British East African Company,
363
,
378
-9,
382
,
419

imperialism,
128
,
332
,
383
-6,
418

Indian Mutiny,
125
,
126

International African Association,
354

International Association of the Congo (AIC),
356

Ismail Pasha,
khedive
of Egypt,
6
,
302
,
303
,
304
,
307
,
318
,
332
,
342
,
352
,
395

Ismailia,
335
,
337
,
342
;
see also
Gondokoro

Ismailia
(Baker),
337
,
338

Ituri Forest,
366

ivory trade,
21
,
25
,
41
,
50
,
129
,
183
,
408
,
428
-9;
see also
slave trade

Jackson, Sir Frederick,
376
,
408

James (follower of Livingstone),
22

Jameson, James Sligo,
368
,
372

Jennings, Louis
(New York Times
editor),
283

Jephson, Arthur Mounteney,
318
,
432

Johnston, Sir Harry H.,
407

Jones, Elizabeth (mother of Stanley),
see
Parry, Elizabeth

Josut,
25
,
26
,
253

Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
(Speke),
147
,
157
,
195

McQueen’s review,
207

Juba,
2
,
401
;
see also
Gondokoro

Juma (ivory trader),
143

Junker, Dr Wilhelm,
349

Kabarega
(omukama
of Bunyoro),
338
,
339
,
340
,
342
,
406

attacked by Colvile,
407

death in Jinja,
407

exiled to Seychelles,
407
,
431

Kabarega Falls,
see
Murchison Falls

Kafu, River,
26
,
170
,
173
,
230

Kafue, River,
26

Kagehyi (L. Victoria),
300
,
304
,
306

Kagera, River,
153
,
377

search for source,
316
-17

Stanley explores,
308

as White Nile source,
144
,
308
,
316
,
318
-19

Kagere, Sarah,
412

Kagwa, Apolo,
406

Kakwa people,
414

Kalulu (slave boy),
296
-7,
311

death,
320

Kama Sutra of Vatsayana
(trans. Richard Burton),
322

Kamerun (German),
358

Kambi Mbaya (slave trader),
348

Kampala,
378
,
379
,
415

Kamrasi
(omukama
of Bunyoro),
144
,
163
,
164
,
166
,
169
-72,
224
,
225
,
237
-9,
338
,
431

Kannena (Ujiji chief),
86
,
89
-91,
274

Kaole Point,
72

Karagwe,
133
,
435

Karamajong tribe,
408

Karuma Falls,
173
,
227
,
236
,
241

Kasembe (village),
252

Kasembe (chief/ruler of the Luba-Lunda),
7
,
252
,
429
,
431

Kasengé Island, L. Tanganyika,
88

Kasongo,
372

Kasoro (guide),
168

Kassala,
387

Katanga,
25
,
429

Katchiba (Obbo chief),
222

Katende, Major,
412

Kathleen
(Petherick’s boat)

Katomba (slave trader),
28
,
29

Kavirondo Bay, L. Victoria,
300

Kazeh (later Tabora),
82
,
91
-2,
100
,
103
,
131
,
140
,
275

altitude,
85

Burton & Speke in,
81
-3,
93