Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure (87 page)

Stanley (aged forty-six) and Anthony Swinburne, his young station chief at Kinshasa, who saved the Congo for Leopold II of Belgium.

Captain Frederick Lugard soon after claiming Uganda for Britain.

Kabarega of Bunyoro in old age. He died while returning to his country after twenty-four years of exile.

Henry Stanley in 1892 with his close friend Sir William Mackinnon, whose Imperial British East Africa company financed Britain’s early presence in Uganda.

Major-General Sir Horatio Kitchener at the time of the battle of Omdurman.

Marchand’s emissaries approach Kitchener’s ship.

Commandant Marchand claimed Fashoda on the Nile for France.

Sir Harold MacMichael, Britain’s top civil servant in Sudan 1926-33. He ignored the people of southern Sudan with dire consequences for the future.

A fifteenth-century reconstruction of Ptolemy’s second-century world map. The White Nile is shown originating from twin sources close to a mountain range. (
See pp. 25-6
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Richard Burton depicted as an Afghan peddler in his wife’s posthumously published biography of him.

John Speke and James Grant at Mutesa’s court.

A naked Mutesa drawn by Speke.

Speke portrayed standing at the Ripon Falls source.