Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure (86 page)

John Hanning Speke as a young officer in India.

Speke before his great journey.

Speke’s memorial in Kensington Gardens.

Samuel Baker in his African hunting attire.

Florence von Sass before her marriage to Samuel Baker.

The Royal Geographical Society outing during the meeting of the British Association in Bath, 1864. Livingstone is standing left of centre, wearing his distinctive cap. Further right is Sir Roderick Murchison in a white suit.

Henry Stanley aged twenty-eight, two years before he ‘found’ Dr Livingstone.

Livingstone’s servants Chuma and Susi.

Some of Stanley’s principal Wangwana carriers on his great trans-Africa journey.

Karl Peters, the German explorer and imperialist.

Princess Salme, sister of the Sultan of Zanzibar.

Captain T. M. S. Pasley
RN
, who rescued Princess Salme.

James S. Jameson, who sketched a girl being killed, cooked and eaten.

Major Edmund Barttelot, who flogged men to death and was murdered.