INDEX
Reading edition
Aahmes, 11
Abbadie, Antoine Thomson d’, 111, 279, 280, 281, 319
Abbadie, Arnaud d’, 279, 319
Ablaing, Baron d’, 193
Abyssinia, 3, 298 et seq.;
history of, 30 et seq., 46 et seq., 61, 112, 277 et seq.;
geography of, 30, 57, 70, 87, 111, 179, 182, 203, 204, 279 et seq.;
people of, 31 et seq., 61, 82 et seq.,
(raw-meat eating) 81–85,
(feasts) 82–85;
Christianity of, 48, 51, 58;
Emperor of, 49, 51, 57, 66, 77, 182, 278 et seq.;
name of, 60, 61;
missionaries in, 112, 182, 278;
likeness to Bahima, 144;
Mother of the Nile, 179;
mountains, 297, 312
Acacia (gum) trees, 182, 205, 207, 209, 218, 220, 294
Acholi (Shuli), people, 165, 184, 253, 274, 296
Adel (Somaliland), 48
Aden, 115, 127, 276
Adua, 33
Adulis, 27, 33
Afar, 4, 30
Africa, East, 22, 44, 48, 133, 246
Africa, Negro, 21
Africa, North, 15, 38, 199
Africa, South, 134, 147
Africa, West, 148, 217, 219, 242, 245
African Association, 86, 90
African wild flowers, flora, 133, 177, 204, 205, 218, 257, 258
Agoro Mountains, 272
Ais, Al, 94, 99
Akka pygmies, 110, 216
Akobo River, 287, 290
Albania, Albanians, 94
Albert Edward, Lake, 171, 227, 260, 262, 269, 270, 304
Albert Nyanza, 26, 71, 97, 129, 164, 170, 173, 185 et seq., 231 et seq., 250, 260 et seq., 304
Alexander the Great, 12, 13, 16, 90
Alexandra Nyanza, 228, 266
Alexandria, 16, 22, 23, 66, 80, 95
Algarve (southern province of Portugal), 46
Algiers, Algeria, 76
Aloes, 122, 204, 218
Alvarez, Francisco, 47, 69, 319
Ambach, or Ambady, 244
Ambatch (Herminiera), 209, 210, 294
Ambukol, 96, 310
America, Americans, 8, 233, 273, 317, 321
Amhara, 277, 278
Amharic language, 62, 63, 280
Ankole, 148, 262, 298
Antelopes, 182, 201, 209, 306
Anthropology, 200, 211, 212, 217, 251
Anville, D’, 70 et seq., 80, 202
Apes, anthropoid, 4, 5, 315
Apuddo (Apuddu), 109
Arabia, 1, 3, 7, 17, 95
Arabs, 17 et seq., 22, 39, 44, 50, 113, 119, 180, 181, 246, 317
Arabs of Zanzibar, their early knowledge of African geography, 139, 140
Aragonese, 40
Aristocracy in Nileland, 156
Aristocreon, 19
Aristotle, 16
Arnaud, D’, 96, 100, 319
Arnold, Sir Edwin, 228, 274
Aruwimi River, 240, 260, 264
Aryan races, languages, 14
Asia Minor, 19
Assiut, 88
Assuan, 19, 39, 77, 87, 95, 96
Astaboras (Abbara, see) 21, 27
Astapus (Blue Nile), 16, 27
Astasobas, 27
Asua River, 109, 134, 166, 167, 232, 272, 306
Atbara, 20 et seq., 25, 48, 92, 176 et seq., 203, 240, 278, 288, 310
Atlantic Ocean, 317
Austin, H. H., 271, 286, 287
Austria, Austrians, 96, 234, 248, 321
Austrian Mission on Mountain Nile, 97 et seq., 167
Author’s contributions to Nile geography, 248, 270
Auxuma, Axum, 27, 33
Azania, 22
Baggara Arabs, 211
Bahr-al-Arab, 71, 201, 230, 238, 242, 243, 307
Bahr-al-Aswad, 180
Bahr-al-Azrak, see Blue Nile
Bahr-al-Ghazal River, 5, 6, 21, 43, 71, 72, 98, 100 et seq., 106 et seq., 192 et seq., 201 et seq., 212 et seq., 234, 236 et seq., 240, 241 et seq., 274, 285, 306 et seq.
Bahr-al-Hamr, 194, 201, 243
Bahr-al-Jabl, see White and Mountain Nile
Bahr-az-Ziraf, see Giraffe Nile
Bailul, 54
Baker, Sir Samuel, 103, 129, 131, 167, 168;
birth and parentage, 174;
marriage and Ceylon, 175;
in Turkey, 176;
second marriage, 176;
commences Nile exploration, 176;
on the Atbara, 177 et seq.;
starts for Albert Nyanza, 183 et seq.;
deceived as to extent of this lake, 186;
knighted, 188;
results of his explorations, 189;
returns to Nileland, 190, 191;
character, 191, 320
Baker (Florence), Lady, 167, 176, 182, 320
Balæniceps rex, 101, 102, 295
Balega Negroes (Lendu), 297
Baltic provinces, 203
Baluchistan, Baluchi, 2, 43
Balugano (Italian draftsman), 77
Banana, the, 57, 153
Bantu languages, 114, 137, 138, 261, 284, 290, 291
Bantu Negro, 29, 38, 137, 290
Baobab tree, 182, 294
Bari country, people, 21, 97, 98, 108 et seq., 188, 190, 238
Baringo, Lake, 113, 162, 247
Baro (see also Sobat), 284, 285, 288
Barth, Dr., 217
Basalt, 210, 314
Basilis (Greek explorer), 19
Bath, 170
Baumann, Oscar, 266, 267, 268, 320
Baumgarten (Swiss engineer), 99
Beads, Blue Egyptian, 36
Beatrice Gulf, 227, 262
Beke, Dr. C. T., 111, 280, 319
Belgium, Belgians, 225, 238, 242, 269, 318, 321
Beltrame, Father, 97
Benue River, 219
Berber (Primnis, Ibrim), 25, 69, 188, 205
Berbera, 116
Berbers, the, 199
Berkeley, Fort, 106
Berlin, 203
Bermudez, 47 et seq.
Berta Negroes, 289, 297
Bilma, 20
Binesho tribe, 290
Bion (Greek explorer), 19
Birds, 208, 255, 295
Biri River, 216
Blackwater fever, 107, 195
Blackwood’s Magazine, 128, 170
Blandford, Dr. W. T., 282
Blood-drinking (Abyssinian, East African), 81, 82
Blundell, Weld, 287, 321
Bogos country, 283, 294
“Bombay” (Speke’s faithful), 130, 165, 169
Bonchamps, De, 286
Bongo tribe, 217
Bono, Andrea de, 106 et seq., 165, 168, 187
Bor, 106, 285, 291, 292
Boran Galas, 72
Borassus, palm (Doleb), 253, 254
Borelli, Jules, 285
Bornu, 239, 242
Botany, see Flora
Bottego, V., 285, 320
Brahuis (of Beluchistan), 2
Brèvedent, Father, 67
Bright, R. G. T., 271, 286, 321
British, the, 293, 317, 318, 319 et seq.;
in Egypt, 94, 95;
in Uganda, 154, 161, 228, 269;
in Abyssinia, 282;
in Egypt and Sudan, 293
British Association, 170, 172
British government, its indifference to African exploration, 169, 188
Browne, Wm. Geo., 88, 89, 319
Bruce, James, 71, 75 et seq.;
and the Guinea worm, 81;
raw-flesh eating, 81, 82;
death, 86;
work in Abyssinian history, 276, 319
Brun-Rollet, 96, 99, 319
Bucerosia, 204, 218
Buchta, Richard, 234
Buddu, 150, 151, 156
Buffon, Comte de (naturalist), 80, 87
Bumbiri, Island of, 225, 226
Bunbury, Sir E. H., 25
Burckhardt, J. L., 92, 93, 319
Burton, Sir Richard F., 115 et seq., 127 et seq. (relations with Speke), 128 et seq., 170, 171, 172, (character) 131 et seq.;
transference to West Africa, 170;
theories of geography, 171, 231;
hesitation to take Mombasa route, 246
Burton, Lady, 172
Bushmen (pygmies), 1, 31
Busoga, 35, 152, 162, 224, 260, 303
Byzantine Empire, 30, 37, 40
Cæsar, Julius, 9
Cailliaud, Frederic, 91, 92, 289, 319
Cairo, 67 et seq., 75, 93
Cambridge, 93
Cambyses, 11, 12, 24
Camel, the, 21, 294
Camerons, 148
Cannibals, Cannibalism, 194, 202, 236
Cape of Good Hope, 47, 87, 134, 266
“Cape-to-Cairo,” phrase and telegraph, 228, 274
Capellen, Baroness Van, 193, 195
Carthage, 10, 15
Casabi (Italian explorer), 239
Cattle, breeds of African, 147;
abundant, 208, 295
Caucasian and Nile discovery, prefatory note, 19, 297, 298, 317
Caucasian, Caucasian race, 2, 14, 31, 42, 146, 148, 297, 317
Cecchi (Italian explorer), 235, 279
Centurions, Nero’s two, 20, 21, 26, 274
Ceylon, 175
Chad, Lake, 6, 15, 20, 147, 195, 199, 240
Chaillé-Long, Col., 238, 239, 320
Charles II., 125
Chemorongi Mountains, 272
Chiarini (Italian explorer), 235
Chimpanzee, the, 5, 217, 222
Chippendall, Capt., 231, 233, 234
Christianity, 34, 35,37 et seq., 48, 259
Church Missionary Society, 112, 113, 228, 246, 277, 281
Circassians, 11, 70, 94, 95
Citerni, C., 285
Civilisation, of Egypt, 7;
of Mesopotamia, 9;
of Greece, 14;
Himyaritic, 17
Coffee, 73
Colston, Col., 230
Congo forests, 147, 260
Congo Free State, 154
Congo River, 3, 46, 70, 193, 216, 218, 223, 228, 263, 299, 301, 316
Constantinople, 232
Consuls, 73, 76, 102, 282
Cooley, Mr. D., 114
Copper, 7, 294
Coptic language, Copts, 7, 61, 62, 70, 74
Cosmas Indicopleustes, 33
Covilhaō, Pero de, 47
Cow-dung, 211
Crocodiles, 209, 295
Crosby, Oscar T., 289
Cross River, 3
Crusades, 24, 40, 193
Cruttenden, Lieut., 115
Cyprus, 2, 9, 77
Cyrenaica, 14, 15, 16
Dahabiahs on Nile, 168, 194
“Daily Telegraph,” the, 224, 228
Dalion (Greek explorer), 19, 20, 94
Damietta, 88
Damot, 54, 57
Danākil (land, people), 3, 30, 34, 48, 52, 54, 277
Danish explorers, 68, 69
Darfur, 88, 101, 229, 230, 235 et seq., 294, 307
De Bono, see Bono, De
Dècle, Lionel, 266, 274, 321
Defafang, extinct volcano on Nile, 210
Delmé-Radcliffe, Major C., 274, 321
Delta of Nile, see Nile, delta;
also 314, 315
Dem Idris, 236
Dembo River, 216
Dervishes (Mahdi’s adherents), 242
Desneval, Count of, 68, 69
Didessa, or Dabessa River, 285, 288
Dinder River, 182
Dinka people, language, country, 97, 110, 217, 297
Diogenes (Greek explorer), 22, 23, 26
Dogoru River, 216
Donaldson-Smith, 272, 273, 321
Dongola, 25, 34, 52, 71, 95
Dorvak, Father, 97
Dracæna (Dragon trees), 203, 204, 218, 294
Dravidian race, 2, 42, 317
Dublin, 279
Dueru, or Dweru, Lake, 227, 251, 261, 262, 305
Dufton, H., 111
Dum Palm (Hyphæne thebaica), 74, 177, 253, 294
Dutch, the, 58, 69, 193, 195, 197, 284, 289, 321
Dyé, Lieut. A. H., 243, 244, 320
Dyur River, see Jur
East Africa, British protectorate, 248
Edwin Arnold, Sir (see Arnold)
Edwin Arnold, Mount (Ruwenzori), 227
Egypt, 2, 294;
Persian conquest of, 11, 12;
Greek, 12, 13;
Roman, 18, 19;
French, 65, 90;
once a very rainy country, 314
Egyptian government, 230
Egyptian temple, resemblance to an, 219
Egyptians, ancient, 4 et seq., 8;
trading relations with Equatorial Africa, 36, 43
Eichstadt (Germany, Nachtigal’s birthplace), 239
Elam, 2
Elephants, 34, 294
Elgon, Mount, 6, 35, 171, 248, 252, 271, 272, 291, 312
Elgumi, 107, 252
Elliott, Scott, Dr. G. F., see Scott-Elliott
Emin (Pasha), Dr., 107, 190, 225, 236, 242, 320;
birth and early life, 250;
short-sightedness, 250;
journals, 251;
in Lotuka, 251 et seq.;
description of birds, 255, 256;
beasts, 256;
in Bahr-al-Ghazal, 257;
the Congo forests, 258;
in Equatoria, 259 et seq.;
journey with Stuhlmann, 263;
death, 264
Enarea, 70, 279, 290
England, English, the, 40, 45, 64, 91, 228, 245, 259, 281, 321
Ensor, Sidney, 230
Equatoria (Emin’s province), 259
Eratosthenes, 16, 23, 27
Erfurt, 61, 63
Erhardt (Rev.), 113
Eritrea, 34
Escayrac, Comte d’, 105, 106
Essex, 241
Ethiopia (see also Abyssinia), 2, 48, 62, 278, 280
Ethiopians, Ethiopic language, 28, 30, 43, 280
Euphorbias, 204, 218, 220, 294
Euphrates, 9
Evatt, Col. John, 270
Eyasi, Lake, 267
Fadasi, 235
“Faidherbe,” steamship, 243
Faloro, 165, 166
Fasher, Al, 230
Fashoda, 21, 43, 243, 245, 285, 292
Fashoda, Lake of, 301, 306
Fauna, Tropical African, 5, 87, 104, 177, 209, 253 et seq., 294, 297
Fayūm, 7, 240
Fazokl, Fazogli, 92, 289
Febore, Théophile Le, 111
Felkin, Dr. R. W., 228, 229, 320
Felus, see Khor Felus
Fergusson, Malcolm, 269, 321
Ferret, Capt., 278
Ferruginous laterite formations (Bahr-al-Ghazal), 243
Fezzan, 15, 93, 195
Fischer, Dr., 247
Flaccus, Septimus, 20
Flemings, Flemish, 40
Flora of Africa (Nileland), 133, 177, 204, 218 et seq., 220, 221, 253, 257, 294
Foreign Office, 103
Forests, 204, 218 et seq., 220, 257 et seq., 295;
“gallery,” 217, 219, 257
Fortnum and Mason, 99
Fowler, C. W., 273
Foxcroft, Mount, 102
France, 65, 214, 245
Fremona, 54, 57
French, the, 40, 65, 66, 70 et seq., 80, 87, 95, 96, 104, 105, 199, 202, 213, 224, 242, 278, 318, 321
Gala people, Galas, 3, 6, 24, 31, 34 et seq., 43, 53, 72, 82, 146, 148, 247, 297
Galabat, 25, 182
Galaland, 3, 147, 235, 284
Galinier, Capt., 278
Gallus, Ælius, 19
Galo River, 290
Gama, Christoforo da, 49 et seq.
Gama, Estevaõ da, 49
Gamo, Vasco da, 46, 49
Garama, Garamentes, 20
Garstin, Sir William, 275, 321
Gazelle, Grant’s, 137
Gedge, Mr. Ernest, 248, 271
Geese, 208
Ge’ez (Ethiopic language), 62
Geographical Society, Italian (Rome), 234
Geographical Society, Khédivial, 326
Geographical Society, Paris, 114, 214
Geographical Society, Royal, 92, 103
Geology of Nile Basin, 135, 152, 243, 299, 304, 310, 311, 313 et seq.
George II., 75
Germany, Germans, 16, 40, 62, 69, 96, 112, 138, 200, 203, 240, 246, 247, 250, 259, 260, 263, 264, 265, 268, 277, 318, 321
Gessi Pasha, 232 et seq., 237, 320
Ghat, 196, 199
Gibbons, Major A. St. H., 274
Giraffe River, 111, 243, 253, 273, 291, 308
Giraffes, 294, 308
Goa, 52
Gojam, 52, 59, 70, 77, 287, 289
Gold, 8, 18
Gondar, 77
Gondokoro, 96, 115, 133, 166 et seq., 183, 188, 192, 232, 233, 238, 274
Gordon (Pasha), C. G., 190, 215, 225, 228, 230 et seq., 238, 250, 283, 320
Gorges, Major, 273
Grand, Le, 64
Grant, James Augustus, 103, 127, 131, 132 et seq., 142, 151, 158, 169, 188, 228, 320
Gray parrot, 217
Greece, 14
Greek Christianity, 48
Greek dynasties in Egypt, 13, 14
Greeks in Africa, 14 et seq., 16, 18, 43, 241, 311, 317
Gregory the Abyssinian, 61
Grogan, Ewart, 269, 274, 321
Gum (acacia), 101, 218
Gunpowder, 35
Guns, 41, (muskets) 50, 51
Gwynn, Major C. W., 287, 288, 289, 321
Habash, Hawash, Habshi, 60
Halifax, Lord, 76, 90
Hamitic languages, 280
Hamitic race, Hamites, 3, 8, 31, 42, 217, 280, 317
Hanbury-Tracey, Major, 271
Hannington, Bishop, 248, 260
Harrar, 116
Harris, Sir William C., 111, 278
Harrow School, 75
Hebrews, 7, 32
Herodotus, 15
Heuglin, Baron von, 192, 199, 200, 217, 320
Hima, Ba- (Wahuma), 141, 142 et seq., 146 et seq., 148, 164, 173, 225, 262, 297
Himyarite Arabs, 17, 33
Hippopotamus, 88, 102, 170, 177, 178, 209, 295
Hittites, 4
Hobley, C. W., 136, 162, 248, 271, 273, 321
Höhnel, Lieut. von, 248
Holland, 193
Hottentots, 134
Hungary, Hungarians, 248, 321
Hyphæne, Branching Palm, 74, 177, 253, 294
Iberian race, 4, 14, 43
“Ibrahim,” Lake (Kioga), 239
Ibrahim Pasha, 92, 94
Ibrahim (slave-trader), 183, 188
India, 1, 8, 17, 31, 48, 56, 58, 118, (Speke in) 126, 277, 278
Irby, Hon. Charles Leonard, 91
Ireland, Irish, 279, 321
Islam (Muhammadanism), 18, 34 et seq., 37 et seq., 73, 215
Italy, Italians, 34, 47, 61, 108, 219, 232, 234, 235, 239, 242, 284, 318, 321
Ivory, 8, 168, 202, 264
Jaba River, 53
Jackson, F. J., 248, 271
Jackson, L. C., 287
Jacobin (map publisher), 91
James II., 62
James, W. and F. L. (brothers), 283
Jemma, or Jimma (Upper Blue Nile), 52, 55, 79
Jesuit missionaries, 48, 52 et seq., 66 et seq., 90, 278
Jews, in Abyssinia, 32, 33
Ji River, 216
Jidda, 67, 77
Jimma, see Jemma
John (Yohannes), Emperor of Abyssinia, 282, 283
Jordans Nullah, 120
“Jordans” (Speke’s home), 120, 172
Juba River, 53
Judaism, 38
Junker, Dr. William, 240, 241, 242, 259, 320
Jur, or Dyur, or Sue River, 101, 194, 213, 216, 222, 243, 307
Kabarega, 164
Kabirondo (country), 247, 270, 272, 303;
(people) 247;
(bay or gulf) 162, 167, 224, 248, 273, 303
Kaffa, 34, 59, 235, 279, 290, 312
Kafu River, 164
Kafuru River, 262
Kagera River (extreme Upper Victoria Nile), 227, 266, 267, 302, 303, 316
Kaka (on the White Nile), 211
Kamurasi, 164 et seq., 184 et seq., 187, 188
Kandt, Dr., 266
Karagwe, 139, 143, 147, 227
Karamojo, 272
Karuma Falls of Nile, 165, 187
Kasa, a name of several Abyssinian rulers before crowning, 281, 282
Kassalá, 179, 240
Katikiro, the, 155
Kaze, 123, 142
Keltie, Dr. J. Scott, prefatory note
Kenya Mountain, 28, 113, 114
Kerckhoven, Lieut. Van, 242
Khartum, 6, 16, 26, 34, 92 (founding of), 96, 102, 109, 110, 168, 182, 188, 202, 230
Khedive of Egypt, 235
Khor Felus River, 292, 308
Khor Kos River, 252, 253, 273, 291, 308
Khor Oteng River, 253
Kibali River, 240
Kich (Kity), 96, 97
Kilimanjaro, Mt., 28, 113, 114, 118, 248
Kioga, Lake, 162, 171, 189, 232, 239, 270, 284, 304
Kir (name of Nile), 284
Kircher, Father Athanasius, 51, 64
Kirk, Sir John, 154, 238
Kirkpatrick, Lake, 272
Kitara, Empire of, 147
Kivu, Lake, 171, 265, 266, 301, 304
Knoblecher, Dr. Ignatz, 97, 99, 319
Kordofan, 34, 101, 102, 200, 229, 230, 294, 310
Korosko, 80, 91, 93
Kosango River, 194
Krapf, Dr. Ludwig, 112 et seq., 246, 281
Kudu, the (antelope), 5, 182
Kuru River, 216
Kwania, Lake, 171, 189, 270
Lado, 236, 239, 305, 306
“Lady Alice,” the, 224, 225
Lafargue, Mons., 205, 206
Lakes, Nile, 16, 22 et seq., 26, 27, 44, 97, 113, 120 et seq. (see Victoria Nyanza), 164, 170, 189, 224, 301 et seq.
Lango country and people (Bakedi), 140 296
Latin, 63
Latitudes, Ptolemy’s, 26;
Portuguese, 59, 78;
Bruce’s, 78
Latuka (Lotuka) country and people, 107, 183, 184, 251 et seq., 296
Lega, Ba-, see Balega, 297
Leghorn, 74
Lejean, 108, 243, 320
Lendu tribe, 297
Leon, Pedro, 51
Letorzec, 92
Libya, Libyan race, 2, 8, 149
Libyan desert, 12, 240, 294, 313 et seq.
Lichfield, Rev. G., 228, 229
Limestone formations, 135, 311, 313
Linant de Bellefonds, Adolphe, 93, 225, 319
Linant de Bellefonds, Édouard, 225, 238, 320
Lisbon, 45, 49, 58, 64, 69
Liturgies, Abyssinian, 63
Liverpool, 195
Livingstone, Dr., 265
Lobo, Father Jeronimo, 51 et seq., 58, 63, 64, 69, 78, 319
Lobor Mountains, 272
Logwek, Mount, 98
Long, Chaillé-, see Chaillé-Long
Lotuka, see Latuka
Lotuka Mountains, 252, 291
Luajali River (affluent of Victoria Nile), 163
Ludolf (Leutholf), Hiob, 61 et seq., 66, 69
Lugard, Sir F. D., 269, 320
Louis XIV., 65 et seq., 67 et seq., 90
Louis XVIII., 92
Lupton (Bey), Frank, 241
Lutanzige (Albert Nyanza), 164, 170, 183
Macallister, R. W., 267
Macdonald, J. R. L., 270, 271, 272, 320
Mackay, Alexander, 228, 229
Madagascar, 300, 317
Maddox, Capt. H., 270
Madi country, people, 165, 166, 184, 274, 297
Magdala, 282
Magungo, 187, 305
Mahdi, the, 92, 181, 199, 238, 259, 284
Maizen (French explorer), 224
Makarka (Nyam-nyam), 236, 240
Malindi, 52
Malta, Maltese, 60, 103, 106, 108, 199
Malzac, De, 100, 101, 319
Mameluks, the, 88, 94
Mangbettu tribe, 217, 240
Mangles, James, 91
Manwa Sera, 140
Manyema tribe, 264
Maps, Ptolemy’s, 23, 25 et seq., 58;
Sicilian, 44, 72;
Vatican, 59;
Dutch and German, 59, 69;
Portuguese, 59;
French, 70 et seq., 91, 100;
Speke’s, 189
Marchand, Col. J., 242, 243, 243, 285, 320
Marco Polo, 24
Mareb River, 179, 283
Marinus of Tyre, 23, 24, 44
Marno, Ernst, 235, 320
Marseilles, 80, 81
Marshes, of the Nile, 21, 212, 213, 218, 243, 244, et seq., 294
Masai, 82, 107, 118, 137, 246, 247, 297
Masawa (Abyssinia), 27, 47, 49, 77, 282
Masawa, Mount (Elgon), 248
Mashra-ar-Rak, 192, 213, 243, 307
Maskat, Maskat Arabs, 112
Mason (Bey), 233, 320
Massaja, Monseigneur, 278
Massari (Italian explorer), 242
Matammah (on Desert Nile), 206
Maternus, Julius, 20
Matteucci, Dr. Pellegrino, 235, 242
Mauritania (Morocco, Algeria, Tunis), 39
Mauritius, 169, 174
Mayo, Earl of, 283
Mbakovia (on Lake Albert), 185, 186
Mbomu River, 241, 242, 285, 307
Mediterranean, 5, 9, 15, 77, 294, 300, 311, 313 et seq.
Mehemet, see Muhammad
Melly, Andrew, 98, 99
Menelik of Abyssinia, 282
Mengo, 225
Menzalet, Lake, 315
Merāwi (Meroe), 16, 19, 21, 25, 92, 206
Metals, Metal-working, 8
Meura, Lieut. (Belgian), 269
Mfumbiro Mountains, 145, 227, 297, 304, 312
Miami, Giovanni, 109, 166, 192, 202, 219, 241
Michel (French traveller), 286
Missionaries, 52, 54, 65, 66, 97, 228, 277, 278, 281
Mitterrützner, Herr ——, 97
Mokha, 50, 54
Mombasa, 44, 54, 113, 117, 118, 146, 246, 247, 259
Mongolian races, 317
Monkeys, 209, 255
Moon, Land of, see Unyamwezi;
Mountains of, see Mountains
Moore, J. E., 269, 321
Moors, Morocco, 45, 46, 49
Morch, Giacomo, 234
Morlang, Father, 97
Morongo Mountains, 272
Moscow, 240
Mountains, of the Moon, 23, 28, 114, 119, 146, 311;
of Lotuka, 252
Mpororo, 148, 302
Muhammad, 38
Muhammad Ali, 91, 94 et seq., 202, 283
Muhammad Granye, 35, 48 et seq.
Muhammad Kher, 211
Muhammad Wad-el-Mek, 165, 183
Muhammadanism, see Islam
Muhammadans, 49, 184
Mundy, Lieut., 267
Munza, King, 240
Munzinger (Pasha), Werner, 200, 282, 320
Murat (Abyssinian), 67
Murchison Falls, 187
Murchison Gulf, 225
Murchison, Sir Roderick, 127
Murie, Dr., 103
Murray, Mr. T. Douglas, 131, 174
Murzuk, 195, 198
Museum, British, 77, 101, 104
Mutesa, 153 et seq.;
his cruelties, 158, 225;
name, 239
Mwanza Creek, 120, 225
Mykenæan civilisation, 14
Nachtigal, Dr., 239
Naivasha, Lake, 247, 273
Nakwai Mountains, 272
Nandi, people, country, 107, 298, 303
Napata, 20
Napier, Lord, 282
Napoleon Bonaparte, 12, 65, 90
Napoleon Gulf, 162, 302
Napoleon III., 162
Nasr (Sobat), 240, 284
Natal, 58
Neanderthaloid man, 1
Negro, the, 8 et seq., 31, 42, 210, 297, 317;
Nilotic, 9, 137, 211, 212, 247, 288, 291, 295;
West African, 290
Negroid races, 1, 43, 107, 183, 184, 251
Neil, O’ (Rev.), 229
Neku (King of Egypt), 10
Nepoko River, 240
Nero, 12, 20, 21, 274
Neumann, Oscar, 271, 290, 321
“New York Herald,” The, 224
Niger River, 219, 242
Nile alluvial mud (from Atbara River), 180, 315
Nile, Albertine, 233, 261, 274, 304, 305
Nile, Blue, 6, 16, 27, 33, 43, 51 et seq., 77 et seq., 92, 111, 207, 275, 283, 287, 289, 309
Nile, Cataracts of, 74, 161, 187, 207, 305
Nile, Giraffe, 111, 189, 252, 253, 272, 273, 291, 308
Nile Mountains, 97, 98, 106, 189, 212, 239, 305
Nile Quest, the, prefatory note, 76, 89, 104;
stops for a time at Gondokoro, 115;
Speke discovers main source of White Nile, 160;
Baker’s explorations, 176 et seq.;
Alexandrine Tinne the romantic figure of the, 199;
Schweinfurth’s share, 203 et seq.;
close of, 293
Nile River, 1 et seq., 206 et seq., 293 et seq., 313;
names of, 7, 284;
delta of, 9, 40, 298, 315;
origin of, 15, 160, 267, 298;
ultimate sources of, 22, 51 et seq., 55, 79, 123, 124, 160, (farthest source of all) 267;
floods of, 56, 178, 179, 245, 275;
basin of, area, 316;
length of, 316
Nile, Valley of the, 1 et seq.;
like Rhine, 207
Nile, Victoria, 187, 189, 232
Nile, White, 6, 20, 22, 26, 43, 95, 207 et seq., 275, 292, 308
Nileland, 42, 177 et seq., 206 et seq., 293 et seq., 296 et seq.;
geography of, 299 et seq.
Nilotic Negroes, 9, 21, 137, 209, 247, 288, 291, 295
Nimule, 97, 305
No, Lake, 201, 308
Nubia, Nubians, 11, 34, 43, 69, 98, 202, 235, 236, 295, 297
Nubian Alps, 203, 313
Nudity of Negroes, 137, 211, 251, 294, 297
Nuēr tribe, 288, 291
Nyam-nyam country and people, 103, 109, 112, 192, 194, 202, 217, 236, 257 et seq., 297
Nyando valley, river, 136, 302
Nyanza, name of, 121, 261
Nyasa, Lake, 113, 118, 138, 300, 302
Nyenam River, 216
Nzoia River, 302
Oguelokur River, 253, 273, 291, 292, 308
Olive, the wild, 204
Oman, 112
Omo River, 285
Ostriches, 16, 254
Otocyon (long-eared fox), 137
Oxen, African, 147, 295
Paez, Father Pedro, 51, 63, 78, 319
Palms, 219
Pangani, 22, 28
Papyrus, 210, 213, 218, 244, 294
Paris, 62, 71, 91, 114
Parklands, African, 182, 252, 295
Parkyns, Mansfield, 111, 319
Parrot, Gray, 217
Peake, Malcolm, 275, 321
Pearson, C. W., 228
Peney, Alfred, 104, 106 et seq., 320
Periplus of the Red Sea, 22
Persia, Persians, 12, 31, 67, 89
Persian Gulf, 2, 9, 48
Peters, Dr. Carl, 249
Petherick, John, 100 et seq., 104, 133, 163, 168, 170, 182, 192, 202, 319
Petherick, Mrs., 103, 104
Petrie, Prof. Flinders, 5, 322
Phallic worship, 155
Phœnicians, the, 9 et seq.
Photography, 106, 135, 234
Piaggia, 217, 219, 239, 284, 320
Pibor River, 287, 288, 292
Pistia stratiotes, 294
Pliny, 19, 23
Pococke, Richard, 74, 75, 319
Polynesians, 317
Poncet brothers, 108
Poncet (French doctor-explorer), 61, 66, 67
Pope, Papal Court, 66, 67, 97, 278
Portal, Capt. Raymond, 270
Portal, Sir Gerald, 270
Portugal, 45
Portuguese, 8, 18, 46 et seq., 65 et seq., 279, 317, 319, 321
Potagos (Greek traveller), 241
“Prester John,” 47
Primnis (Berber), 25
Pringle, Capt., 272, 273
Prokesch von Osten, 96, 319
Protopterus, fish, 182
Psametik, 10, 12, 15
Ptolemy (King), 13, 33, 34
Ptolemy, Ptolemæus, Claudius, 23, 24 et seq., 44, 58, 114
Punt, land of, 5, 6, 10
Purdy, Col., 230
Pygmies, Congo, 1, 216, 260, 297
Pygmy races, 5, 16, 42, 281
Quartz, 152
Queen Victoria, 121
Queens, African, 144, 157 et seq.
Racey River, 267
Radcliffe, Delmé, Ch. (Major), 274, 321
Rahad River, 182, 288
Raiūf Pasha, 238
Ravenstein, Mr. E. G., 28, 247
Rebman, John, 112 et seq., 246
Red Sea, 1, 22, 46, 47, 49, 73, 86, 277, 300
Reeds, 294
Rejaf, 99
Religions, Negro, 155
Rhaptum, or Rhapta, 22, 28
Rhinoceros, the, 21, 144, 294
Rhodes, Cecil, 228, 274
Rhodesia, 44
Rifles, 86
Rift Valley (Great), 247, 267, 268, 300, 301
Rift valleys of Eastern Africa, 300 et seq., 310
Riga, 203
Ripon Falls of Nile, 160 et seq., 189, 266
Roa River, 216, 308
Rōl River, 101, 216, 243, 308
Roman Catholics, 50, 61, 278
Rome, Romans, 18, 44, 58, 62, 66, 317
Rosebery Channel, 225, 302
Roseires, 288
Rosetta, 74, 87, 316
Roule, le Sieur du, 68
Royal Geographical Society, 92, 103, 118, 123, 124, 127, 162, 247
Royal Society, 63, 64
Ruanda, 145, 148
Ruchuru River, 304
Rudolf, Lake, 6, 34, 37, 148, 247, 248, 271, 272, 286, 287
Rukwa, Lake, 138, 268, 300
Rumanika, King, 143 et seq., 148
Rüppell, Dr. (German naturalist), 111, 319
Rusizi River, 120, 129, 171
Russegger, J. I., 111
Ruvuvu River (Kagera), 266
Ruwenzori Mountains, 23, 28, 139, 171, 186, 227, 233, 250, 260, 261, (Alpine vegetation) 263, 269, 296, 299, 311
Ruzi River, 272, 286, 287, 292, 308
Ryllo, Father, 97
Saba (Sheba), Queen of, 32
Sabæan Arabs, 17, 31, 32
Sabatier, 96
Sagada Mountain, 51, 55, 78
Sahara Desert, 9, 15, 196, 199, 309, 315
Sailing ships, their effect on African discovery, 9
Saint, Le (French explorer), 213
Salisbury, Lake, 272
Salt, Consul Henry, 277
Samburu, Lake (see Rudolf), 247
Samien Mountains, 6, 56, 278, 312
Sanseviera, plant, 204
Sardinian (i.e. N. Italian) travellers, 108
Saxony, Saxe Gotha (share in African exploration), 61, 63
Schuver, J. M., 284, 289
Schweinfurth, Dr. Georg, 199;
birth and nationality, 203;
starts for Suakin, 203;
describes botany of North Abyssinian terraces, 203, 204;
Berber to Khartum, 206 et seq.;
White Nile scenery, 208 et seq.;
Bahr-al-Ghazal, 212 et seq.;
and the slave-trade, 214;
his achievements, 216 et seq.;
anthropological discoveries, 217 et seq.;
botany of Nileland, 218;
“gallery” forests, 219 et seq.;
shares Burton’s opinions regarding Victoria Nyanza, 223
Sclater, Dr. P. L., 102
Scott-Elliott, G. F., 269, 320
Scottish, Scotland, 75, 132, 269, 321
Selim Bimbashi, 96, 319
Semitic influence, languages, 34, 49, 116, 317
Semliki River, 29, 171, 186, 233, 251, 260, 261, 305
Sennar, 52, 68, 95, 288
Sese Islands, 150, 302
Settit River (Atbara), 181
Shankala, Shangala, 72, 297
Shari River, 216, 232, 240, 242
Sharp, Mr., 274, 291
Sheko tribe, 290
Shendi, 72, 93, 99, 206
Shergold-Smith, R.N. Lieut., 228, 229
Shiluk people, country, 99, 209, 211, 212, 291, 297
Shoa, 59, 278, 282
Sicily, 44, 72, 74
Silesia, 250
Simiyu, or Shimeyu River, 267
Simonides (Greek explorer), 19, 20
Slaves, Slavery, 5, 8, 110
Slave-trade, Slave-traders, 103, 184, 190, 202, 214, 230, 235, 264
Slave-traders’ revolt, 235 et seq.
Small-pox, 153
Snakes, 254, 256
Snay, Sheikh, 119, 140
Snow, Snow-mountains, 6, 22, 113, 114, 227, 233, 246, 247, 260, 290, 296, 297, 312
Sobat River, 28, 111, 189, 194, 234, 240, 272, 283, 284, 285, 292, 296, 297
Sofala, 18, 38
Sokotra, Island of, 16, 18, 54
Solomon, King, 32
Somali people, 3, 34, 117; language, 3
Somaliland, 3, 5 et seq., 48, 115 et seq.
Somersetshire and Speke, 120, 121, 125
Sonnini de Manoncourt, 87 et seq.
Sophia, Archduchess, 97
Spain, Spanish, 40, 45, 69, 75
Speke, John Hanning, 102, 103, 125, 320;
in Somaliland, 116 et seq.;
starts for the Central Africa Lakes with Burton, 118 et seq.;
discovers Victoria Nyanza, 120 et seq.;
difference with Burton, 123 et seq.;
returns to England, 124;
his birth and parentage, 125;
youth, 126;
character, 128, 129, 156, 170, 320;
second expedition with Grant, 133 et seq., 142;
in Uganda, 150 et seq.;
returns to England, 158, 170, 171;
name in Uganda, 159;
discovers outlet of Victoria Nyanza, 160, 172;
honours, 169;
interview with King Edward, 169;
geographical theories, 171, 223;
death, 172
Speke Gulf, 224
Spekes, history of the, 125;
arms of the, 170
Stanley, Sir Henry, 29, 172, 223 et seq.;
greatest African explorer, 172, 224;
confirms Speke, 223 et seq.;
circumnavigates Victoria Nyanza, 225;
in Uganda, 226, 227;
mistake about Ugowe Bay, 248;
relieves Emin, 259 et seq.;
discovers Ruwenzori, 260, 261
Stanton, E. A., 274, 321
Steamers on Nile, 96
Steudner, Dr., 192, 195, 200
Strabo, 19, 25, 27
Stroyan, Lieut., 116
Stuhlman, Dr. Franz, 263, 264, 269
Suakin, 54, 58, 93, 188, 203
Sudan, 4, 15, 96, 154, 190, 230, 235, 238, 275
Sudanese soldiers, 95, 190, 270;
races, 217, 297
Sudd, the, 5, 21, 188, 210, 274, 275, 294
Sue (Sive) River, 216, 243, 285, 307
Suez, 73, 234, 238
Suez Canal, 104, 314
Suleiman-bin-Zubeir, 235, 236 et seq.
Switzerland, Swiss, 92, 99, 282, 321
Syphilis, 152, 153
Syria, Syrians, 2, 9, 77
Tajarra Bay, 48, 53, 57, 116
Takaze River (Upper Atbara), 181, 283, 310
Tanganyika, Lake, 113, 119, 120, 129, 171, 265, 266, 267, 299, 300
Tanguedec, Lieut., 243, 285
Tarangole, 252
Tawareq (Tonareg), Tamasheq, 20, 149, 196 et seq.
Teleki, Count S., 248
Tellez, F. Balthasar, 64
Tertiary Epoch, the Nile during the, 313 et seq.
Theodore, King, 182, 279, 281, 282
Thibaud, or Thibaut (French explorer and consular agent), 95, 96, 319
Thomson, Joseph, 82, 162, 217, 248, 249, 259, 260, 320
Tibet (Speke in), 126, 127
Tigre (Abyssinia), 48, 57, 66, 277, 278
Tigris River, 9
Tinne, Miss A., 192;
names, 193;
origin of Tinne family, 193;
mother and aunt, 194;
first Nile journeys, 194, 195;
death of mother and aunt, 195;
starts from Tripoli to explore Sahara and reach Bahr-al-Ghazal from N.W., 195;
treacherously slain near Murzuk by Tawareqs, 196 et seq.;
character and appearance, 198, 199;
on the Roll of Fame, 320
Tinne, Theodore F. S., 198
Tondi River, 216
Tonj River, 243, 307
Toro, 152, 270
Trade, Traders, 5, 96, 101, 213, 294
Tragelaph, Speke’s, 146
Trees, great forest, 220, 258
Tripoli, 77, 87, 195 et seq.
Tsana, Lake, 6, 26 et seq., 33, 52, 55 et seq., 77 et seq., 309, 312
Tsetse fly, the, 35
Tu River, 273, 291
Tübingen, 112
Tunis, 77
Turkana, country, people, 6, 107, 272, 297
Turkey, 65, 73
Turks, the, 50, 53, 61, 65, 94, 95, 101, 195, 198, 318, 321
Ubangi River, 216, 241, 285
Ueberbacher, Father, 97
Uganda, prefatory note, 8, 228, 259;
protectorate of, 35, 154;
aristocracy of, 35, 148, 156;
country of, 119, 148, 151 et seq.;
people of, 148, 152 et seq., 297;
King of, 154 et seq., 226;
Stanley in, 225–228;
missionaries proceed to, 228, 229;
Gordon and, 238;
route, via Busoga, 248
Uganda Railway, 248
Ugogo, 137
Ugowe Bay, 224, 248, 273
Ujiji, 119, 120, 227
Ukerewe (Bukerebe), 118, 121, 229
“Um Suf” (Vossia) (reeds), 244, 294
Unyamwezi, 29, 72, 114, 120 et seq., 138, 224, 228, 260, 267, 303;
porters, 139
Unyanyembe, 123
Unyoro, 37, 119, 147, 152, 163, 187, 270, 296
Usagara, 136
Usambara, 118
Usnea, lichen, 204, 221, 222
Usui, 142
Utica, 9
Valentia, Lord, 277
Vandeleur, Seymour, 270, 320
Vannutelli, L., 285, 301
Vaudet, Signor, 108
Venetians, Venice, 23, 24, 40, 41, 47, 202
Victoria Nyanza, 6, 23, 26, 35, 113, 117, 118;
discovery of, 120 et seq.;
Burton’s depreciation of, 129;
Speke’s estimate of, 150 et seq., 162, 189;
Stanley’s circumnavigation, 224 et seq.;
direct route to, from Mombasa, 246 et seq.;
last discoveries of Stanley’s, 262;
surveyed (northern coast) by Col. J. R. L. Macdonald, 272;
by Whitehouse, Hobley, etc., 273;
general features of, 302 et seq.
Vinci, 99
Volcanoes, 210, 227, 297, 304, 314
Wadai, 201, 240, 242
Wadi Halfa, 96, 230
Wadi, or river-bed, 205
Waghorn, Lieut., 276
Wakefield, Rev. Mr., 247
Wales, Welsh, 100, 321
Wansleb, Michael, 63
Waterfalls, 56, 161, 187
Watson, Col. C. M., 231, 233 et seq., 320
Wellby, M. S., 272, 286, 287, 321
Welle River, 109, 202, 216, 240, 241, 307
Werne, Ferdinand, 96, 210, 289, 319
Whale-headed storks, see Balæniceps rex
Whitehouse, Commissioner B., 162, 248, 273, 321
White man, see Caucasian
White Nile, see Nile, White
Wilson, Capt. H. H., 292, 321
Wilson, Rev. C. T., 228, 229, 320
Wosho Mountain (North Abyssinia), 312
Würtemberg, 112, 199
Wyche, Sir Peter, 63
Yabongo River, 216
Yalo River, 101, 308
Yaman (Arabia), 17, 31, 309
Yei River, 106, 239, 308
Zambezi River, 17, 18, 300
Zanzibar, 17, 58, 112, 118, 123, 133, 134, 146, 265
Zebra, 53, 257, 294
Zeila, 52, 54, 290
Zinza, U-, Bu-, 142, 148
Zubeir Pasha, 235
Zululand, Zulus, 3, 29, 140