Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure (82 page)

Mau Mau Rebellion,
413
,
421
,
434

Maula,
145
,
151
,
164

Maxim guns,
365
,
379
,
381
,
390
,
392
,
394

Mazitu (Ngoni) tribe,
249

Mecca,
36
,
38
,
39
,
43
,
63

Melly, Andrew, Nile attempt,
41

Menelik II, Emperor,
386
,
388

Mengo Hill,
155
,
156
,
348
,
380

Méri,
157
-62

Mfundi (Sorombo sub-chief),
135
,
137

Mgambi (brother of Kamrasi),
229
,
230
,
238

Miani, Giovanni (ivory trader),
42
,
176
-7,
221

Mikindani Bay,
13
The Mill on the
Floss (G. Eliot),
123

Mirambo (Nyamwezi king),
267
,
308
,
415
,
429

missionaries,
4
,
14
,
38
,
212
,
302
,
304
,
331
,
332
,
345
-8,
366
,
386
,
394
,
400
,
408
,
409
,
419
,
424
,
427
,
433

relationship between Catholic (French) and Protestant (British) Missions,
379
-80;
see also
individual missionaries
Missionary Travels
(Livingstone),
258
,
331

Missouri Democrat,
262

Mitamba forest,
312

Moenpembé,
25
,
26
,
253

Moero (Mweru), Lake,
250
,
273
,
290

Moir, John and Frederick,
331

Molilamo, River,
290

Mombasa,
26
,
40
,
65
,
115
,
362

Monsoor,
341

Moorehead, Alan,
3
,
438

‘Mountains of the Moon’,
26
,
39
,
40
,
43
,
70
,
85
,
100
,
118
,
144
,
318

Mozambique,
15

Mpanga, Frederick,
412

Msiri,
429

el-Muameri, Sayf bin Said,
70

Mugwanya, Stanislas,
406

Muhammad, Abdulla ibn, (The Khalifa),
388

Muhammad Ali Pasha (Egyptian viceroy),
24
,
40

Muhammad, Mahmoud,
388
,
389

Muhinna (slave trader),
91
,
134

Mukasa, C. M. S.,
412

Mukondokwa, River,
79

Murchison, Sir Roderick,
14
,
113
,
126
,
128
,
274
,
332

invites Speke to ‘great Nile debate’,
199

letter to
The Times,
191,
192

loses favour with Speke,
194
-5

praises Speke,
116
,
190

suggests Nile military expedition to Speke,
197

urges Livingstone on Nile expedition,
211

Murchison Falls,
234
,
241
,
319

discovery and naming,
235

renamed by Idi Amin,
407

Murdoch, Sophie (sister of J. Speke),
204

Murie, Dr James,
185
,
216

Musa Mzuri (Indian trader),
81
,
103
,
132
,
133

Museveni, Yoweri,
415

Mutebi, Ronald,
kabaka
of Buganda,
417
-18

Mutesa,
kabaka
of Buganda,
135
,
143
,
144
,
151
-4,
157
-8,
166

cruelty,
162
-3,
164

desire for firearms,
303
-4

greets Stanley,
301

invites missionaries,
304
,
345
,
347

sacrifices,
144
,
347

Mutesa II, Sir Frederick Edward (‘King Freddie’),
410

burials,
413
-14

death,
412
-13

escape to Britain,
411

Mwanga,
kabaka
of Buganda (son of Mutesa),
347
,
370
,
378
,
406

executes converts and missionaries,
348
-9

exile and death,
407

treaty with Lugard,
379
,
381

treaty with Peters,
376
,
377

Mwanza, L. Victoria,
99

Mzilikazi,
415

Mzita Island (L. Victoria),
98
,
99

N’yamgundu,
145

Napier, General Sir Robert,
37

Napoleon Channel,
168

Napoleon III, Emperor,
168
,
197
-8

Nasib,
136
,
137
,
152

Nasik porters, cruelty to animals,
248

Nassick Mission School (Bombay),
28
,
247

Nchuvila (Kinshasa chief),
355
,
356

Nelson, Capt. R. H.,
369

Neston Park, Corsham,
202

New York Herald,
262,
264
,
271
,
273
,
294
,
295
,
301
,
302
,
306
,
313

New York Times,
283

Newbold, Sir Douglas,
402

Ngoni people,
429

Niger, River,
7
,
72
,
198
,
312

The Nile Basin
(Burton & McQueen),
195
,
207
-8

Nile, River: apportioning of water,
434
-5

Blue Nile,
2
,
179

early exploration,
1
,
23
,
25
-6,
41
-2

mystery of,
1

recent explorations of source,
316
-17

watershed,
16
,
322

White Nile,
2
,
3
,
70
,
101
,
102
,
176
,
179
,
251
,
273
,
301
,
391
;
see also
individual expeditions

Nile Source Expedition (Burton & Speke),
see
Great Lakes Expedition (Burton & Speke)

Nile Source Expedition (Livingstone, 1866-73

Stanley, 1871-2),
13
,
15
,
17
-23,
26
-35,
248
-56,
285
-93

in Bambarre,
20
,
23
,
25
,
26
-8,
254

Biblical resonance,
16
,
23

despatch to Lord Clarendon,
252

at L. Bangweulu,
252
,
286
-90

at L. Moero,
251

at L. Nyanza,
249

Livingstone’s last journey (1872-3),
285
-90

L. & S. meet,
268
-71

L. & S. return to Tabora and part company,
275
-8

L. & S.’s voyage on L. Tanganyika,
274
-5

at Lualaba River,
29
-31,
253
,
254
-5

Manyema ambush,
34
-5,
35

navigation error,
250
,
287

Nyangwe massacre,
32
-4,
255

and porters,
13
,
18
,
249
,
251
,
252
,
254
,
264
,
265
,
266
,
286

preparations,
246
-7

supplies stolen at Ujiji,
255
-6

Nile Source Expedition (Speke & Grant, 1863): attack by Wanyoro,
169

criticism on return,
192
-3

detained at Lumeresi’s court,
137
-8,
139

detained at Mutesa’s court,
147
,
149
-65,
431

in Gondokoro,
177
,
180
-7

G.’s camp ransacked,
138
-9

G. reunites with S.,
164

at Kamrasi’s court,
170
-2

in Karagwe,
141

in Kazeh,
131
-2,
136

march to Buganda,
144
,
145

march to Bunyoro,
168
-9

and porters,
129
,
131
,
133
,
134
,
136
,
173

preparation,
124
-6,
128
-9

refused permission to visit Luta N’zige,
172
,
173
-4

S. asked to negotiate,
131
,
134

S. discovers Ripon Falls,
167
-8

S. rejects Petherick’s aid,
185
-6

S. separates from G.,
129
-30,
134
-5

telegram to RGS,
189

in Ugogo,
129
-30

in Ukumbi,
132
-3

in Usui,
139
-40

waits for Petherick in Faloro,
174
-6; ‘welcome home’

celebration,
191
-2

Nilotic peoples,
398
,
399
,
408

Nimule,
224

Noe, Lewis,
260

Ntamo,
355

Nubar Pasha,
332

Nuer people,
399
,
400

Numeiri, Jafar,
403

Nyamwezi people,
130
,
131
,
133
,
267
,
308
,
374
,
428
,
429

Nyangwe,
30
,
254
,
311
,
312

massacre,
32
-4,
255
,
282

Nyanza, renamed Victoria Nyanza by Speke,
126
;
see
Victoria, Lake

Nyasa (Malawi), Lake,
28
,
83
,
128
,
209
,
211
,
248
,
362

and L. Tanganyika,
200

Nyasaland (Malawi),
4
,
331

Nyoro people,
228
,
410
;
see also
Bunyoro

Obbo people,
41
,
222
,
398