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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
Kenya,
395
,
401
,
410
,
413
,
420
,
421
,
434
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
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
Knoblecher, Ignatius (missionary),
118
-19
Kodok (formerly Fashoda),
392
Kony, Joseph,
416
-17
Krapf, Dr Johann Ludwig (missionary),
39
-40,
50
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
The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa
,
21
,
27
,
32
,
35
,
291
,
329
Layard, Austen,
198
Lenana (Masai leader),
419
Leopold II, King,
6
,
325
,
352
,
353
,
357
,
359
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
Luba-Lunda people,
429
Lugard, Capt. Frederick,
379
-81,
382
Lugbara people,
414
‘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
McQuie, Peter,
195
Madi tribe,
176
,
225
,
302
,
398
,
408
Mahaya (Mwanza chief),
99
Mahdi, The (Muhammad Ahmad),
349
,
350
al-Mahdi, Sadiq,
403
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
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
massacre of,
32
-4
Marchand, Major Jean-Baptiste,
392
,
393
Marschall, Baron von,
377
Masailand,
40
,
67
,
170
,
348
,
374
Masindi,
338
Masindi, Battle of,
339
-41
Masudi (slave trader),
140