Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure (83 page)

Obote, Milton,
410
-11,
411

Ogaden caravan,
50
,
53

Ogowé, River,
198
,
353

Okello, General Tito,
415

Oliphant, Laurence,
62
,
114
,
115
,
198
,
201
-2,
208

Omdurman, Battle of,
389
-91,
390
,
394

Osman Digna,
388
,
389

‘Our Great African Travellers’ (Stanley),
91

Outram, Brigadier James,
43
,
45
-6

Oxford, Univ. of,
37
,
348
,
398

Owen, T. R. H.,
405

pack animals,
13
,
73
,
75
,
81
,
181
,
216
,
248
,
335

Paez, Pedro,
2

Palmerston, Lord,
128
,
190
,
385
,
426

Park, Mungo, death,
8
,
72
,
312
,
423

Parke, Dr Thomas,
318
,
369

Parry, Elizabeth (mother of Stanley),
257
,
260
,
261

Pasley, Capt. T. M. S.,
360
-2

Patterson, J. H.,
420

People of the Small Arrow
(J. H Driberg),
400

Pera
(steamship),
190

Peters, Dr Karl,
6
,
347
,
359
,
363
,
366
,
370
,
374

treaty with Mwanga,
376

Petherick, John,
123
-4,
153
-5,
163
,
166
,
170
,
172
-5,
183

accusation of slave trading,
184
,
194

arrives late at Gondokoro,
184

failure to succour Speke & Grant,
185
,
195

shoots Dinka,
185
,
216

Speke’s row with,
183
-8,
194
-5

Petherick, Katherine,
186
-7,
194

Pike, Alice (fiancée of Stanley), 2956,
296
,
323
,
324

Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah
(R. F. Burton),
56

Pitt, William,
59

Playfair, Colonel R. L.,
49
,
189

Pocock, Edward,
296
,
298

death,
423

Pocock, Frank,
296
,
298
,
318

death,
321
,
423

Portal, Sir Gerald,
382
porters: cameraderie,
96

deaths,
18
,
22
,
40
,
79
,
105
,
134
,
173
,
298
,
319
,
320
,
349
,
369
,
422

desertions,
3
,
7
,
9
,
18
,
22
,
73
,
129
,
131
,
138
,
173
,
236
,
246
,
249
,
250
-1,
265
-6,
295
,
311
,
336
,
369

illnesses,
133
,
235
,
265
,
286

indispensable to explorers,
7
-8,
297
,
300
,
319
-20,
422
-3

Johanna,
249

Manyema,
372

Nasik,
248
,
249

Nyamwezi,
73
,
129
,
131
,
374

Nyoro,
233

and payment,
110
,
117
,
119
-20,
121
,
216

Swahili,
419

thefts,
7
,
73
,
129
,
249
,
250
,
282

Wangwana,
128
,
130
,
132
,
136
,
137
,
166
,
189
,
266
,
319
,
348
,
372
,
422
;
see also
individual porters

Porto, Silva,
428

Portugal,
15
,
319
,
321
,
324
,
429
,
434
;
see also
slave trade

Prempeh, exiled,
431

Price, Roger,
331

Prideaux, Capt. W. F.,
293

Prinz Adalbert,
SMS (cruiser),
362

Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society,
273

Ptolemy,
26
,
39
,
100

Punjab War,
126

‘Queen Mother’
(namasole
of Buganda),
154
-5,
156
,
157

Quelimane,
246

quinine,
8
,
155
,
172
,
224
,
236
,
243

Raajok people,
398

Rahan (porter),
128
,
132

Ramji, Rush,
71
,
81
,
120
,
121

Rawlinson, General Sir Henry,
280

Rebmann, Johann (missionary),
39
,
65

rhinoceros,
50
,
130
,
142
,
153

Rhodesia,
410

Rigby, Capt. Christopher P.,
119
,
120
,
125
,
128
,
189
,
310

Rimbaud, Arthur,
4

Rionga (brother of Kamrasi),
173
-4,
225
,
226
-7,
229
,
236
-8,
339
,
342

Ripon Falls,
51
,
168
,
200
,
210
,
301
,
303
,
319

Roberts, Katie Gough,
263
,
295

Roscher, Albrecht (explorer),
128

death 423

Rosebery, Lord,
382
,
383

Rosetta,
389

Rovuma, River,
211
,
248
,
362

Rowlands, John,
see
Stanley, Henry Morton

Royal Geographical Society,
13
,
39
,
57

Royal Navy,
362
,
392

Ruete, Emily;
see
Salme, Princess

Ruete, Heinrich,
360
,
361

Ruete, Rudolph,
359
,
361
-2

Rukarara, River,
317
(see
Kagera, River)

Rumanika, king of Karagwe,
132
,
135
,
141
-2,
144
,
316

Rusizi, River,
90
,
199
,
200
,
210
,
211
,
247
,
251
,
273
,
275

Livingstone & Stanley discover direction of flow,
274

Russell, Lord John,
190

Ruvubu, River,
316
(see Kagera, River)

Ruwenzori Mountains,
318
,
377

Rwanda,
144
,
316
,
429

genocide in,
434

Saat,
215
,
217
,
222
,
236

Sabaluqua,
388

Sais, Egypt,
25

Salim, Muhammad (slave trader),
251

Salim, Sheikh Said bin (expedition captain),
72
,
86
,
91
,
92
,
95
,
103
,
128
,
129
,
132

Salisbury, Lord,
350
,
351
,
359
,
376
-7,
378
,
381
,
382
,
384
,
387
,
392
,
420
,
421

Salme, Princess (later Emily Ruete),
359
-60,
361
-2

Sarmini,
320

Sass, Barbara Maria von (Florence Baker),
179
-80,
182
-3,
214
,
217
,
221
,
242
,
243
,
338
,
340

ill-health,
228
,
230
-2,
423
;
see also
Baker’s military expedition to Nile Basin; Luta N’zige Expedition

Saulez, Capt. Seymour,
355

Schweinfurth, Dr Georg,
208
,
300

‘Scramble for Africa’,
4
,
9
,
343
,
351
-4,
357
-8,
362
-3,
374
-5,
377
,
382
-5,
424
,
425
,
431
,
434

Sekeletu (Kololo chief),
246

Selim (interpreter),
267
,
268
,
282

Selim Bey,
396

Selim Bimbashi,
40
-1

Semliki, River, as alternative White Nile source,
318

Seneca,
24

Sesheke,
246

Seychelles,
407

Shaguzi,
210
,
228
,
229
,
231

Shaka,
415

Shaw, John,
266
,
297

death,
266
,
423

Shaw, Dr Norton,
39
,
57
,
106
,
109
,
112
,
114
,
118
,
119
,
124
,
125
. 193

Shekka (Bumbireh chief),
305

Shepheard’s Hotel,
36
,
39
,
189

Shiloh, Battle of,
260

Shiré, River,
200

Shire Highlands,
28
,
280
,
331
,
332
,
429

Shooa,
225

Sikh Wars,
46

Simon (porter),
28

Simpson, George,
110
,
199

Simpson, John,
412

Skeet, C. H . L.,
402

slave trade,
6
,
15
,
51
,
246
,
324
,
342
,
394
,
428
-30

abolition,
282
-3

Arab-Swahili traders,
7
,
15
,
18
,
19
,
20
,
21
,
22
,
57
,
69
,
127
,
212
-13,
250
,
253
,
254
,
267
,
311
,
331
,
369
,
386
,
408
,
427
,
428
-9

Baqqara traders,
394

cannibalism,
22
,
313

Egyptian traders,
428

European traders,
41

maltreatment by slavers,
21
,
218
,
248

Mambari traders,
425

Nyamwezi traders,
85
,
428

Nyangwe massacre,
32
-4,
255
,
282

Portuguese traders,
28
,
425
,
428

Sudanese traders,
428
,
430

traders urge killing of missionaries,
348

Zanzibar slave market,
15
,
67
,
283

Smythe, Edmund,
125

Snow, Thomas,
203

Sokoto,
72

Somali people,
39
,
46