Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure (78 page)

33
.
Journal
163.

34
. Ibid 169.

35
.
Missionary Travels
Livingstone 441.

36
.
TDC
1 136-7.

Index

Entries in
italics
denote illustrations.

Abdulla (son of Musa Mzuri),
134
,
136

Abu Hamed Railway,
388
,
389
Abyssinia,
376

Acholi tribe,
302
,
338
,
398
,
408
-10,
415
-16

chosen for Ugandan army 409,
415
-16

fear of Museveni,
415
-16

officers killed by Amin,
414

Acholiland,
407
,
415
,
416

Aden,
43
,
44
,
45
,
47
,
49
,
51
,
53
,
56
,
60
,
361

Burton & Speke in,
106
-10

Adler,
SMS,
361
,
362

Adowa, Battle of,
386

African Lakes Company,
331

Africa: the ‘Dark Continent’,
4
,
206
,
263
,
424

as an enchanted land,
436

western attitudes to,
436
-7;
see also
individual regions

African people: effects of colonialism on,
385
,
429
-30,
433
-5

effects of independence,
434
,
435

poverty,
426
-7

role in helping explorers,
7
-8,
422
-3;
see also
porters, individual tribes and peoples

Agha, Khursid (slave and ivory trader),
177
,
216
-17,
218
,
223

agriculture,
399
,
433

Ahmed (guide),
48

Ahmed Lemi (slave trader),
348

Ajawa (Yao) people,
28

Albert, Lake,
41
,
232
,
251
,
303
,
319
,
370

discovery and naming,
232

and L. Tanganyika,
241
,
247
,
273

and L. Victoria,
241
;
see also
Luta N’zige; Luta N’zige Expedition

The Albert N’yanza
(Baker),
216
,
243

Alexander the Great,
1
,
23

Alexandria,
180
,
213
,
240
,
374

Alleron (Bari chief),
336

Amabile (nephew of De Bono),
183
-4

Amin, Colonel Idi,
407
,
411
,
413

assault on Mengo Hill,
411
-12

expulsion of Indians,
420

Amir, Snay bin (slave and ivory trader),
81
-2,
83
,
94
,
131

Amoda, Hamoydah,
285
,
288
,
293

Amur (slave trader),
29

Anderson, Colonel Finley,
262

Anglo-French Declaration,
393

Anglo-German Agreement (1886),
362
-3

Annuak people,
399

Appuddo (Nimule),
176
,
239
,
241

al-Aqqad, Muhammad Ahmad (slave trader),
336

Arabi, Colonel,
357

Arnold, Edwin (editor),
281

Aruwimi, River,
368
,
369
,
371

Asua, River,
224

Atbara, Battle of,
388
-9

Atbara, River,
2
,
179

Azande tribe,
396

al-Azhari, Ismail
403

Bacheeta (interpreter),
227
,
228
,
233
,
236

Baganda (Buganda) people,
150
,
153
,
160
,
162
,
207
,
306
,
347
,
398
,
407
,
409
-10,
411
,
418
;
see also
Buganda

Bagamoyo,
72
,
129
,
247
,
264
,
279
,
280
,
282
,
321
,
375

Bagisu tribe,
432

Bahr el-Ghazal, River,
24
,
123
,
185
,
187
,
275
,
313
,
342

Baker, ‘Florence’;
see
Sass, Barbara Maria von

Baker, Capt. James (brother of Samuel),
240

Baker, Lt Julian,
339

Baker, Sir Samuel White,
3
,
13
,
24
,
178
,
318
,
333
,
363
,
387

appearance,
220
,
333

awarded RGS Gold Medal,
243

Blue Nile

expedition,
178
-1

brutality,
336

character,
220
-1

colonialism,
332
,
343
-4,
425

early life,
220

exaggerates importance of Luta N’zige,
242

greets Speke & Grant,
180
-1

illnesses,
222
,
224
,
423

knighthood,
244
,
424

marriage to Florence,
240

missionary work in Africa, scorn for,
213

motivation to explore,
4
,
5
-6,
214

as raconteur and writer,
243

revered in northern Uganda,
338
,
416

Speke offers Luta N’zige discovery to,
182

and Sudanese civil war,
343
,
403

views on Africans,
213
,
218
,
221
,
332
,
396

views on slave trade,
221
,
225
,
332
,
428
;
see also
Baker’s military expedition to Nile Basin; Luta N’zige Expedition

Baker’s military expedition to Nile Basin: Acholi tribe side with,
338

and Bari tribe,
336
-7; ‘Battle of Masindi’,
339
-41

declares Equatoria,
337
,
395

Florence’s disgust with expedition,
336

in Gondokoro,
335
-7

retreat from Bunyoro,
341
-2,
341
,
343

success exaggerated,
342

takes possession of ‘Unyoro’,
339

Baluchi soldiers,
71
,
73
,
80
,
86
,
88
,
96
,
101
,
119
,
120
,
129
,
130
,
131
,
132

Baluchistan,
71

Bambarre (Kabambare),
20

Banda, Dr Hastings,
7

Bangweulu, Lake,
9
,
17
,
26
,
250
,
252
,
273

Banlaya,
371
,
372

Bantu peoples,
398
,
408

Baraka (interpreter),
128
,
129
,
132
,
134
,
163

Baratieri, General Oreste,
386
-7

Barghash, Said, Sultan,
359
,
362

Bari tribe,
41
,
176
,
177
,
184
,
218
,
307
,
336
,
395

Baring, Sir Evelyn,
391

Barker, Frederick,
296
,
298

Barth, Heinrich (explorer),
70

Barttelot, Major Edmund,
367
-8

atrocities,
371
-2

death,
372
al-Barwani, Khamis bin Abdullah,
301

al-Bashir, Omar 403,
404
,
404

Baumann, Dr Oscar,
316

Beatson, General,
56

Bedouin,
38

Beke, Dr Charles,
192
,
206

Bell, Sir Hesketh,
407
-8,
432

Bellefonds, Colonel Ernest Linant de,
302
,
303
,
307

death,
424

Ben Ali (guide),
248

Bengal Native Infantry,
46

Bennett, James Gordon Jr (owner of
New York Herald
),
262
,
263
,
264

Berber,
179
,
387

Berbera,
47
,
49
,
50
,
51
,
58
,
60
,
62
,
67
,
104

Berlin Conference,
357

Bigugu, Mount,
317

bin Laden, Osama,
404

Birmingham,
385

Bismarck, Prince Otto von,
358
,
359
,
363
,
377

threatens Sultan of Zanzibar,
362

Blackwood, John (publisher),
59
,
60
,
110
,
117
,
122
-3,
126
,
149
,
194
,
201
,
244

Blackwood’s Magazine,
62,
75
,
117
-18,
123
,
208

Blantyre,
331

Blue Nile,
2
,
178
-9

‘Bog Barons’,
400
,
401
,
405

Bogharib, Muhammad (slave trader),
19
,
21
,
252

Bombay Marine Battalion,
247

Bombay Native Infantry,
36

Bombay, Sidi Mubarak (interpreter and captain),
8
,
70
,
83
,
86
,
88
,
98
,
102
,
105
,
129
,
133
-4,
145
-6,
152
,
167
,
171
,
189
,
266
,
282
,
422
,
423

Bonny, Sergeant William,
371

Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
(trans. R. F. Burton),
322

Boscher, Sherif,
256

Boyd, Lord,
413

Brazzaville,
392

British Association for the Advancement of Science,
199
,
333

Bruce, James,
2

Buganda,
9
,
133
,
196
,
204
,
239
,
338
,
345
,
374
,
378
,
408
,
410
,
417
,
429

Mackay in,
345
-51

Speke & Grant in (1862),
147
,
149
-65

Stanley in (1875),
301
-4,
307

Bui (guide),
136
,
137
,
138

Bulingugwe Island, L. Victoria,
381

Bumbireh Island, L. Victoria,
304
-6,
305
,
324

Bunyoro,
143
,
144
,
163
,
166
,
196
,
204
,
210
,
307
,
343
,
395
,
406
-7,
417
,
429