Read Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure Online
Authors: Tim Jeal
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Tagamoio (slave trader),
33
Tanga,
363
Tanganyika, Lake,
8
,
17
,
70
,
83
,
206
,
210
,
246
,
247
,
362
altitude,
85
Burton & Speke arrive at,
84
-5
Burton & Speke’s discovery,
90
-1
and L. Albert,
247
,
273
and L. Nyasa,
200
Livingstone & Stanley’s voyage to head,
274
-5
and Nile,
295
Speke crosses,
86
-8
Stanley’s circumnavigation,
308
-9
Stanley suspects as part of Congo’s system,
309
Taufika,
335
Tawfiqia
(gunboat),
391
Tel-el-Kebir, Battle of,
357
Timbuktu,
72
Times,
123,
191
,
192
,
213
,
281
,
321
,
342
-3,
351
,
387
Speke’s obituary,
206
Tinné, Alexine,
24
Tinné, John,
204
Tippu Tip (Hamid bin Muhammad el-Murebi, slave trader),
251
,
308
,
311
-12,
312
,
313
,
368
,
429
,
430
Togoland,
358
Tsavo man-eaters (lions),
420
tsetse fly,
3
,
13
,
81
,
222
,
235
,
248
,
265
,
286
Tuareg people,
24
Tuckey, James,
72
Tufnell, Capt. H. M.,
397
Tunguro (L. Albert),
373
al-Turabi, Hassan,
403
Tutsi people,
132
Ubangi-Shari,
387
Uganda,
345
,
347
,
348
,
351
,
359
,
363
,
364
,
373
,
382
,
383
,
401
Acholi dominated army,
409
as British Protectorate,
384
,
406
,
410
,
419
economy,
410
British division of Equatoria, consequences for Uganda,
408
-9,
414
,
416
-18 Emigration Amendment Act,
420
extended by British,
406
,
407
-8
few European settlers,
411
independence,
410
Lord’s Resistance Army,
416
-17
Museveni rule,
415
-18
northern Ugandan tribes,
408
-9,
416
-18
Obote rule,
410
-12,
414
,
415
and southern Sudan,
401
-2
Uganda People’s Congress,
410
Uganda Railway,
419
-21
Ujiji: Burton & Speke in,
84
-6,
91
-2
Livingstone in,
252
,
255
-6
Stanley meets Livingstone,
268
-9,
269
,
270
-1
Ukara,
145
Ukerewe Island, L. Victoria,
98
,
99
,
101
Ukerewe, sea of,
see
Victoria, Lake
Uledi (Wangwana porter),
129
,
132
,
162
,
163
,
282
,
292
,
297
,
320
,
422
United States of America,
385
Civil War,
260
Indian Wars,
263
,
306
(Union) Army,
260
(Union) Navy,
260
Unyoro,
339
Urondogani,
167
Usambara,
362
Usambiro,
374
Usavara,
301
Uzaramo,
129
altitude,
99
,
207
and L. Albert,
213
,
241
renaming of,
126
as source of Nile,
83
,
190
,
232
,
301
Speke’s discovery,
98
-100
Stanley’s circumnavigation,
299
-306
Victoria Nyanza, see Victoria, Lake von der Decken, Baron Klaus, death,
423
Wad-el-Mek, Mohammed (slave trader),
175
,
176
,
177
,
225
,
238
,
394
Wadelai,
350
Wadi Halfa,
391
Wadi Nogal, Somaliland 48,
49
Wadi Safeni (interpreter),
305
,
320
death,
321
Waldecker, Dr Burckhardt,
316
Waldron, Sir John,
413
Wangwana porters,
128
,
130
,
132
,
137
,
166
,
189
,
266
,
319
,
348
,
372
,
422
Wanyaturu tribe,
298
Wavuma tribe,
307
What Led to the Discovery of the
Source of the Nile
(Speke),
54
,
95
,
110
,
198
,
206
Wheatley, Major Mervyn J.,
400
White Nile,
see
Nile, River
Williams, Capt. Ashley,
3
81
Winchester rifles,
355
Wingate, General Reginald,
391
,
397
,
400
,
403
Wissmann, Hermann von,
6
Witu,
377
The Wizard of the Nile
(M. Green),
416
Wolseley, General Sir Garnet,
307
,
357
,
388
Yao people,
28
Young, James,
293
Yule, Henry,
324
Zambezi Expedition (Livingstone, 1858-64),
14
-15,
27
,
200
,
209
,
211
,
272
,
331
,
425
Zamboni tribe,
370
Zanzibar,
15
,
27
,
39
,
42
,
63
,
64
,
65
,
67
slave market,
15
,
67
,
249
Zanzibar: City, Island and Coast
(R. F. Burton),
204
Zimbabwe,
75
Zulu,
133
Zungomero,
79
David Livingstone in 1866 before his last departure from Britain.
Richard Burton posing in Arab clothes in 1865, a year after Speke’s death.
Richard Burton in his tent in Somaliland.