Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure (73 page)

13
. BD 27 May, 24 Oct 1862, 30 Jan 1863; Petherick’s report to RM 16 Jan 1864 RGS; Udal 1 527;
Journal
427.

14
. Udal 1 519.

15
. BD 27 May 1862;
Travels in Central Africa
(Vol. I)
& Exploration of the Western Nile Tributaries
(Vol. 11) John Petherick and Harriet Edlman Petherick
[Travels]
134-6; Udal 1 460.

16
. Udal 1 538.

17
. BD 24 Oct 1863: Baker knew the rumours in Khartoum that Petherick had been involved in slavery were false because Petherick’s
wakil,
Abdel Majid, who had been imprisoned by him for slaving, had denied to Baker that his master (whom he had every reason to hate) had ever been involved.

18
. Udal 1 527-8.

19
. Hall,
Lovers
91.

20
.
Journal
475; Speke to
Times
25 Dec 1863.

21
. Ibid.

22
.
Travels
1 72, 132; Udal 1 519.

23
. Ibid 460, 522ff; Katherine Petherick’s Journal 19-20 May, 3-25 Jul, 28-30 Aug 1862 5788 Wellcome Library; Hall,
Lovers
92; BD 16 Mar 1863; Udal 1 534.

24
. Ibid 529.

25
. Hall,
Lovers
93; Udal 1 533;
Travels
1 312-13.

26
.
Travels
11 19-20.

27
.
Journal
474;
Walk
367.

28
. Speke to Petherick 15 Apr 1863 RGS.

29
. Katherine Petherick’s Journal Jun-Jul 1863.

30
. Katherine Petherick to RM 26 Jul 1863 RGS.

31
. Speke to RGS Sec 19 Feb 1864 RGS.

32
.
PRGS
Vol. V11 11 May 1863; Moorehead 71.

33
.
Journal
477; Speke to Grant 22 Mar 1864 17931 NLS.

34
.
Walk
447;
Journal
477.

THIRTEEN: A Hero’s Aberrations

1
. Speke to RM 6 Jul 1862 RGS.

2
. RM to Layard 2 May 1863 Ad ms 3906 BL.

3
. Palmerston to Lord John Russell 31 Jul 1863 PRO 30/22 173.

4
.
Times
18 May 1863;
PRGS
Vol. V11 25 May 1863.

5
. Udal 1 547; Godsall 251;
PRGS
Vol. V11 11 May 1863, 109, 182-96, 212-23; Speke to JB n.d 1863 NLS.

6
. Speke to Shaw 19 Aug 1859 RGS.

7
. Maitland 182.

8
. Speke to Sir George Grey 30 Mar 1863 RGS;
Journal
477.

9
. Udal 1 538.

10
. Correspondence between the Pethericks and RM in Petherick Papers at RGS; Katherine Petherick to RM 26 Jul 1863 RGS.

11
. RM to Grant 5 May 1864 17933 NLS. Speke was not to blame for John Petherick’s dismissal as a consul. Dr Murie revealed that Petherick had stolen African cattle and forced women and children to carry for him at gunpoint. Baker prevailed on Murie to inform the British Consul-General in Cairo. This and an unconnected charge of embezzlement led to Petherick’s dismissal. BD 19-22 Mar 1863 RGS; Udal 1 535-7; FO Memo by W. H. Wylde Ad Ms 38990 BL; Udal 1 543-4. Speke knew he might appear petty and vindictive by attacking Petherick. But he believed that by not justifying himself after Burton had publicly attacked him in
LR
(especially in the preface), he (Speke) had ‘never lost ground so much’. So he would not make the same mistake again. Speke to JB 7th (no month) 1863 NLS.

12
.
PRGS
Vol. V11I 25 Apr 1864 details Petherick’s instructions given on 8 Feb 1861.

13
. Maitland 197; RM to Layard 1 Jul 1864 Ad Ms 39111 BL.

14
. Maitland 196; Udal 1 540.

15
. Speke to JB Jul? 1864 4193 NLS.

16
. Speke to Sir George Grey 16 Jan 1864 RGS.

17
. Speke to Grant 24 Feb 1864 17910 NLS.

18
. Maitland 193-5; Udal 1 547-8;
WLT
344, 362, 366-7.

19
. Speke to JB 16 May 1864 4193 NLS; Speke to Layard 31 May 1864 Ad Ms 39110 BL; Udal 1 548-9.

20
. Ibid; FO memo W. H. Wylde 11 Jun 1864 Ad ms 38990 BL; Udal 1 548-9.

21
. Speke to JB 25 Aug 1864 4193 NLS.

22
. RM to Layard Jul 1864 Ad ms 3911 BL.

23
. RM to Grant n.d. Aug 1864 17910 NLS.

24
. Speke to JB 18 Jun, 16 Aug 1864 4193 NLS; Speke to Kaye 8 Sept 1863 Ad ms 45918 BL.

FOURTEEN: Death in the Afternoon

1
. Speke to RM 12 Aug 1864 1066 NLS.

2
. George Simpson to JB 8 Sept 1864 4193 NLS.

3
.
PRGS
Vol. V11I 13 Jun 1864.

4
. Ibid 256-60.

5
. DL to Agnes L ? Sept 1869 Ad ms 50184 BL.

6
. Jeal,
Livingstone
284.

7
. Speke to JB 6 Aug 1864 4193 NLS.

8
. Speke to JB 25 Jul 1864 4193 NLS.

9
. JB to Oliphant 30 Jul 1864 30361 NLS.

10
.
Life
11 426; Godsall 254.

11
.
Zanzibar
11 397-8.

12
. Maitland 209-17 including quotations from George Fuller’s and Daniel Davis’s inquest evidence and Fuller’s later statement 23 Jan 1914.

13
.
Times
17 Sept 1864 report of Inquest.

14
.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
Thomas Wright 2 vols 1 192.

15
. Burton to Frank Wilson 21 Sept 1864 QK/BL.

16
. Speke to J. Tinné 14 Sept 1864 RGS.

17
. Sophie Murdoch (neé Speke) to Henry M. Stanley 20 May 1876 RMCA.

18
.
Zanzibar
11 382.

19
. Included in Rigby’s comments on Burton’s chapter ‘Captain Speke’ in vol 11
Zanzibar
17922 NLS.

20
.
Zanzibar
11 398.

21
. Notably Brodie 226 ff, McLynn 233-5.

22
.
Zanzibar
11 398.

23
.
WLT
173.

24
. George P. Fuller quoted Maitland 215.

25
.
Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison
A. Geikie 2 vols 11 168; DL to H. Waller 24 Sept 1864 Rhodes House.

26
. PRO IR 59/68.

27
.
Times
19, 23 Sept 1864.

28
. Jeal,
Livingstone
283.

29
. Brodie 229.

30
. Maitland 221.

31
. Moorehead 76.

32
.
Nile Basin
99 ff.

33
.
Blackwood’s Magazine
Vol. XC11 Jan 1865 101-11.

34
. Burton to ed.
Athenaeum
14 Jan 1865; Brodie 228.

35
. Johnston 223.

36
. Benjamin Speke to Jean ? 9th no month 1874 NLS.

FIFTEEN: The Doctor’s Dilemma

1
. Udal 1 554.

2
. DL to Agnes L 6 Sept 1869 50184 BL.

3
.
PRGS
Vol. IX 14 Nov 1864, 8-10.

4
. RM to DL 5 Jan 1865 quoted in Blaikie 293-4.

5
. Jeal,
Livingstone
300.

6
. DL to A. Tidman 25 May 1865 London Missionary Society Collection School of Oriental and African Studies [LMS/SOAS].

7
. DL to RM 29 Nov 1865 NAZ.

8
. Jeal,
Livingstone
285;
Zanzibar
11 102.

9
. Debenham 293-4.

10
. Blaikie 304; Hall,
Lovers
152.

11
. DL to W. C. Oswell 1 Jan 1866 quoted Hall,
Lovers
161.

12
. Quoted in Cairns 203.

13
. DL to Agnes L ? Sept 1869 Ad ms 50184 BL.

SIXTEEN: The Glory of Our Prize

1
. Hall,
Lovers
94-5; BD 10-15 Mar 1865 RGS.

2
.
AN
75.

3
. BD 16 Mar 1865.

4
. Ibid 22 Mar 1865.

5
. Hall,
Lovers
96.

6
.
AN
101-4; BD 29 Mar 1865.

7
.
AN
78.

8
. Ibid 81.

9
. BD 8, 10 Apr 1864;
AN
164.

10
. BD 18 Apr 1864;
AN
143.

11
.
AN
143.

12
. At the RGS 1 have raised this gun to my shoulder and found it all but impossible to hold steady. 1 was told by Julian Baker that Samuel Baker repaired the stock with the skin of an elephant that had trampled on it.
AN
159.

13
. Johnston 175; Moorehead 88-9; Hall,
Lovers
13-15.

14
.
AN
203-23.

15
. Ibid 134-5, 115-16.

16
. Ibid 210.

17
. Ibid 182-3.

18
. Hall,
Lovers
164.