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5
. Speke to JB 17 Apr 1860 4154 NLS.
6
.
Annals
11I 97.
7
. Speke to JB 28 Mar 1860 4154 NLS.
8
. Maitland 107.
9
. Speke to Shaw 28 Oct 1859 RGS.
10
. Speke to JB 11 Apr 1860 4143 NLS; Speke to JB 5 Nov 1859 4143 NLS.
11
. Udal 1 504; Instructions for Consul Petherick’s proposed expedition up the White Nile in Aid of Captains Speke and Grant 8 Feb 1861,
PRGS
Vol. IX 8 Apr 1864 256.
12
. ‘Tail’ 376.
13
. Speke to Shaw 28 Oct, 5 Nov 1859 RGS.
14
. CV memorandum Grant Papers MS 17924 NLS; Maitland 11i; Speke to Shaw 23 March 1860 RGS.
15
. JB to Speke 27 March 1860 30012 NLS.
16
. Obit
Blackwood’s Magazine
Vol. XCVI Oct 1864 514-16.
17
. Maitland 105; Speke to JB 26 Aug 1859, and n.d. 1859 NLS.
18
.
Journal
450.
19
. PRO/30122 31 Jul 1863 173 ff.
20
.
A Walk Across Africa
James. A. Grant [Walk] 18-19.
21
.
Journal
23.
22
. Ibid 24-32; Speke to Rigby 12 Dec 1860 RGS;
Walk
22-3.
23
. Ibid 32.
24
.
Journal
39.
25
. Ibid 47-8.
26
. Ibid 51.
27
. Speke to Rigby 12 Dec 1860 RGS.
28
.
Journal
46.
29
. Ibid 60.
30
. Ibid 72-74, 87;
Walk
53;
AN
298-335.
31
.
Journal
76-7; Speke to Shaw 12 Dec 1860 RGS.
32
.
Walk
48 ff;
Journal
85.
33
. Ibid 83, 89.
34
.
Walk
59;
Journal
90-i.
35
.
Journal
93, 100.
36
. Ibid 95-7.
37
. Ibid 94-103.
38
. Ibid 88, 100.
39
. Maitland 131 ff;
Walk
55, 77;
Journal
109 ff.
40
. Ibid 110-16.
41
. Ibid 117-22.
42
. Ibid 122-7.
43
.
Walk
107, 115-16, 121.
44
.
Journal
129-41.
45
.
Walk
122.
46
. Ibid 94, 128.
47
.
Journal
157, 149.
48
. Ibid 162.
49
. Ibid 167.
50
.
Walk
138.
51
.
Journal
168-86.
52
. Ibid 172, 189.
53
. Ibid 198-200.
54
. Ibid 215-16.
55
. Quoted in
Journey to the Source of the Nile
Christopher Ondaatje [Ondaatje] 201.
56
.
Journal
200-i; Maitland 145.
NINE: As Refulgent as the Sun
1
.
Journal
218, 224;
Quest for the Secret Nile
Guy Yeoman [Yeoman] 50.
2
.
Journal
221-2.
3
. Ibid 226-7.
4
.
Journal
manuscript p. 1 Ms 4872 NLS (microfilm version in BL Shelf-mark YC 2006.a.7908 pt 2).
5
. Speke to RM n.d. but 20 Feb 1862 RGS.
6
.
Journal
232-40.
7
. Ibid 241-2.
8
. Ibid 289.
9
. Ibid 243, 275-7.
10
. Ibid 246-9;
Journal
proofs 11 4873 NLS.
11
.
Journal
253-4, 266-7, 304.
12
. Speke to Petherick 26 Mar 1862 copy of letter RGS.
TEN: An Arrow into the Heart
1
.
Journal
proofs 27 March 1862 NLS.
2
.
Journal
291.
3
.
The Peoples of Africa
J. L. Newman; ‘Origins of Political Conflicts & Peace Building in the Great Lakes Region’ G. P. Mpangala.
4
.
Journal
ms 1 and
Journal
book proofs p 1 30 March 1862 NLS;
Journal
296-7.
5
.
Journal
299.
6
.
Journal
ms 2, 16 Apr 1862;
Journal
book proofs 58.
7
.
Journal
304;
Journal
book proofs 7 Apr 1862.
8
.
Journal
ms 11, 12 Apr 1862;
Journal
306.
9
.
Journal
book proofs 8, 10 Apr 1862.
10
.
Journal
ms 2 May 1862;
Journal
321.
11
.
Journal
ms 9 May 1862;
Journal
book proofs 73.
12
.
Journal
ms 2 Jun 1862;
Journal
book proofs 81.
13
.
Journal
326;
Journal
ms 6 May 1862.
14
. Ibid 3 May 1862 113-15.
15
. Ondaatje 200; Hall,
Lovers
90.
16
.
Journal
book proofs 73 cut from
Journal
338.
17
.
Journal
338.
18
. Maitland 158.
19
.
Journal
315-16, 318.
20
. Ibid 301.
21
. Speke’s drawing of Mutesa in notebook at RGS;
Journal
337.
22
. Ibid 229-30.
23
.
Walk
219, 223, 227.
24
.
Journal
335.
25
.
Journal
ms 10, 13 Jun 1862.
26
.
Journal
345-59, 328;
bana
or
bwana
meaning father or lord, via Swahili from Arabic
abuna
– ‘our father’.
ELEVEN: Nothing Could Surpass It!
1
.
Walk
267 gives Speke’s numbers.
2
. Ibid 246-7;
Journal
363.
3
.
Walk
248; Maitland 169.
4
.
Journal
364-5.
5
. Maitland 170;
Journal
369-72.
6
.
Walk
275.
7
.
Journal
381.
8
. Ibid 388.
9
. Ibid 399, 402, 406-08;
Walk
285-8.
10
.
Journal
397, 404;
Africa in the Nineteenth Century until the 1880s
J. F. Ade Ajayi 109;
Walk
287.
11
.
Journal
438, 431-2;
Walk
299.
12
. Ibid 310.
13
. Ibid 312; Journal 448 f.
14
.
Walk
315, 309.
15
. Ibid 319;
Journal
449-50.
16
. Ibid 448, 453-4;
Walk
327; Catania 276 ff.
17
.
Journal
467.
18
. Ibid 457;
Walk
339.
19
. Ibid 346;
Journal
463.
20
. Ibid 469-70.
21
. Ibid 470.
TWELVE: The Nile is Settled
1
. Hall,
Lovers
14-15, 33.
2
. DL to Agnes L Sept 1869 Ad ms 50184 BL; Udal 1 505-6.
3
. Hall,
Lovers
26 ff; R. E. H. Bailey’s statement about Florence 19 Jul 1971 Anne Baker Collection, Salisbury.
4
.
AN
62-3.
5
. Samuel W. Baker diary [BD] 15 Feb 1863 SWB1 RGS;
Walk
336;
Journal
471.
6
.
Journal
470-1.
7
.
Walk
366; Udal 1 529; Hall,
Lovers
89.
8
. Ibid 89;
Walk
366; Grant to JB 22 Oct 1866 4209 NLS.
9
.
AN
64; Hall,
Lovers
90-1.
10
. Hall,
Lovers
94.
11
. Mrs Petherick’s Journal written in 1861 (original in Wellcome Library), extract published in
Blackwood’s Magazine
Vol. XCI Jun 1862, 560;
PRGS
Vol. V11I 25 Apr 1864.
12
. BD 30 Jan 1863; Speke to JB n.d. except 1863 NLS. Baker had learned from the Austrian priest, Father Morlang, that Petherick had never come closer to Gondokoro than the Bahr el-Ghazal. Speke had been told the same thing by Khursid Agha and by Baker and so felt he had been tricked.