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Speke leaves for L. Victoria 96
returns 100-1
Speke & Grant in,
131
,
133
-4,
136
;
see also
Tabora

Kedong massacre,
419

Kelly, Capt. Henry,
397
-8,
397

Kenya,
395
,
401
,
410
,
413
,
420
,
421
,
434

Kenya, Mount,
39
,
40

Khama, Seretse,
414

Khartoum,
41
,
123
,
184
,
189
,
240
,
333
,
349
,
393
,
398
-9,
400
,
40
Kibonge (slave trader),
375

Kidwiga (Kamrasi’s guide),
173
,
174

Kikizi, Mount,
317

Kikuyu people,
419
,
421

Kilimanjaro, Mount,
39
,
65
,
363

Kilwa,
70
,
105
,
362

Kimera, Prince Harry,
412

Kingani (Ruvu), River,
73
-4

Kinglake, Alexander,
260

Kinshasa,
355
-6

Kirk, Dr John,
27
,
31
,
211
,
254
,
273
,
279
-80,
280
,
293
,
360

Kismayu,
362

Kisoona (Kisuna),
237

Kitchener, Maj-Gen Sir Horatio,
387
,
424

Kivira Island, L. Tanganyika,
87

Kivira, River (White Nile), L. Victoria,
101
,
102
,
113
,
115
,
124
,
173

Kivu, Lake,
144
,
317

Knoblecher, Ignatius (missionary),
118
-19

Kodok (formerly Fashoda),
392

Kololo tribe,
246
,
425

Kony, Joseph,
416
-17

Krapf, Dr Johann Ludwig (missionary),
39
-40,
50

Kurrum,
50
,
55

Kyoga, Lake,
303
,
317
,
319

Lady Alice
(boat),
299
,
300
,
301
,
304
,
305

Lake Regions of Central Africa
(Burton),
78
,
117
,
118
,
195
,
207

Laing, Gordon,
72

Lander, Richard, death,
8
,
72
,
423

Lane, Edward,
322

Langi tribe,
398
,
408
,
410
,
416

The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa
,
21
,
27
,
32
,
35
,
291
,
329

Latuka tribe,
218
,
222
,
223

Layard, Austen,
198

Lenana (Masai leader),
419

Leopold II, King,
6
,
325
,
352
,
353
,
357
,
359

Leopoldville,
355
,
423

Levy-Lawson, Edward,
308
lions,
41

Tsavo man-eaters,
420

Livingstone, Agnes (daughter of David),
16
,
214
,
294

Livingstone, Anna Mary (daughter of David),
276

Livingstone, Dr David,
7
,
8
,
9
,
92
,
178
,
289
,
324
,
385
,
429

anti-slavery,
212
-13,
249
,
294
appearance,
271
attempts on life,
34
-5,
255
body returned to Zanzibar,
292
-3
burial at Westminster Abbey,
293
,
295
character,
9
,
277
-8
‘Christianity and Commerce’,
14
,
196
,
272
,
329
,
331
,
426
death,
290
-1,
329
doubts Speke’s Nile source,
206
,
210
early life,
14
,
246
,
271
early journeys,
272
-3,
425
God-given duty,
6
,
17
,
209
,
425
hatred of Burton,
201
,
212
ill-health,
19
,
20
,
26
,
209
,
250
,
252
,
254
,
255
,
287
,
288
,
290
and Kirk,
271
,
281
last diary entry,
290
last journey (1872-3),
285
-90
and Lualaba River,
254
,
273
,
288
,
291
,
311
meets Stanley,
268
-71
as missionary,
15
,
206
,
209
,
212
,
271
-2,
286
,
425
,
440
motivation to explore,
6
,
14
-17,
212
,
248
,
278
,
286
relationship with Stanley,
276
-8
trans-Africa journey (1854-6),
14
,
15
,
126
,
209
,
246
,
272
turns against Speke,
200
views on Africans,
22
,
82
,
271
,
425
,
430
-1
views on colonialism,
332
,
385
-6,
426
-7,
430
-2
views on slave and ivory trade,
21
-2,
212
-13,
294
;
see also
Nile Source Expedition (Livingstone & Stanley); Zambezi Expedition

Livingstone, Mary (wife of David),
15
,
276
,
331

Livingstone, Oswell (son of David),
281

Livingstone, Robert,
276

Livingstone Relief Expedition,
279

Livingstonia,
331

Loanda,
246

Lobo, Jeronimo,
2

longitude, calculation of,
73
,
78
-9

Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA),
416

Lourdel, Father Simeon,
346
,
348

Lovell, Mary,
105

Lualaba, River,
17
,
23
,
29
-30,
34
,
251
,
254
,
273
,
310
,
311

altitude and Nile source,
275
,
288
Stanley proves to be Upper Congo,
315

Luapula, River,
251
,
290

Luba-Lunda people,
429

Lugard, Capt. Frederick,
379
-81,
382

Lugbara people,
414

Lukuga, River,
308
,
310

Lumeresi (chief),
137
,
138
,
139

‘Lunatic Line’,
see
Uganda Railway

Luta N’zige,
172
,
173
,
174
,
182
,
206
,
215
,
247
;
see also
Albert, Lake

Luta N’zige Expedition (Baker & Florence, (1863-5): Baker exaggerates size of lake,
232
,
241
,
242

in Bunyoro,
227
-38
detained by Kamrasi,
236
-8
discovery and renaming of lake,
232
discovery of Murchison Falls,
235
Florence’s ill-health,
230
-2
journey from Gondokoro to Obbo,
216
-19,
221
-2
journey from Obbo to Karuma Falls,
224
-7
meets Chief Commoro,
218
,
220
in Obbo,
222
-4
and porters,
216
,
222
,
233
-4,
236
return to Gondokoro,
233
-9
slave traders atrocities,
223
in Shaguzi,
229
-30
voyage on lake,
233
warned of mutiny,
215
-16,
217

Luxor,
1

Maaolo, George,
412

Mabruki Speke,
71
,
105
,
163
,
189
,
266
,
285
,
292
,
297

Machunda (king of Ukerewe and Mzita Islands),
99

Mackay, Alexander,
345
-6,
346
,
347
,
348
,
349
,
363
,
374

Mackinnon, Sir William,
331
,
351
,
363
,
370
,
378
-9,
383
,
403
,
419

MacMichael, Sir Harold,
399
-400,
403

McQueen, James,
195
,
207
-8,
300

McQuie, Peter,
195

Madi tribe,
176
,
225
,
302
,
398
,
408

Mahaya (Mwanza chief),
99

Mahdi, The (Muhammad Ahmad),
349
,
350

al-Mahdi, Sadiq,
403

Maizan, Lt M.,
40
,
67

death,
129
,
423

Majid, Abdel (slave trader),
183
-4,
185

Majid, Said bin,
274

Majid, Sultan of Zanzibar,
69
-70,
119
,
120

Makaka (Sorombo sub-chief),
135
-6

Makoko (chief),
354
,
355

Malagarasi, River,
268

Malaka,
396

Malamine, Sergeant,
355

malaria,
3
,
8
,
19
,
41
,
77
-8,
80
,
222
,
250
,
268
,
273
,
362
,
423

Malawi,
see
Nyasaland Mamohela,
17

A Man of the People
(Achebe)

Mandela, Nelson,
414

Mansur (Arab trader),
99

Manwa Sera (Nyamwezi chief),
82
,
128
,
131
,
133
,
134
,
221
,
291
,
292
,
297
,
320
,
422

Manyema,
19
,
20
-1,
34
,
252
-3,
311

Manyema people,
22
,
30
,
254

massacre of,
32
-4

Marchand, Major Jean-Baptiste,
392
,
393

Markham, Clements,
112
-13,
283

Marschall, Baron von,
377

Marston, Edward,
281
,
323

Masai tribe,
419
,
421

Masailand,
40
,
67
,
170
,
348
,
374

Masindi,
338

Masindi, Battle of,
339
-41

Masudi (slave trader),
140

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