Chapter II: Appendix: II. Bibliography 322

INDEX 329

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

SPEKE (from a drawing by the author) _Frontispiece_

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1. The Nile and the Pyramids 4

2. The Mountains of the Moon 23

3. The Course of the Nile according to Ptolemy 24

4. An Arab Trader (Maskati) 40

5. Dapper’s Map (Amsterdam: 1686) giving the falsified results
of Portuguese explorations 58

6. D’Anville’s Map of the Nile Basin 70

7. The Branching _Hyphæne_ Palm 75

8. Bruce’s Map of the Nile Sources 80

9. Portrait of James Bruce 86

10. Map of Africa by Williamson, London, 1800 90

11. Blue Nile, twenty miles east of Fazokl 93

12. Ferdinand Werne 96

13. Whale-headed Stork (_Balæniceps rex_) 100

14. John Petherick 102

15. Map published in Penny Magazine of 1852 108

16. The River Sobat 111

17. Rev. Dr. J. Ludwig Krapf 112

18. A Swahili Arab Trader 117

19. Sketch Map by Burton and Speke, 1858 123

20. John Hanning Speke, at the age of 17 126

21. Burton’s idea of the Nile Sources, December, 1864 127

22. James Augustus Grant 132

23. A Mnyamwezi Porter 135

24. A Hima of Mpororo near Karagwe 144

25. Speke’s Tragelaph 146

26. The Ripon Falls, from the west bank 151

27. A View in Uganda 152

28. The Nile at the Isamba Rapids, looking North 160

29. Ripon Falls, from Bugunga 162

30. View of Napoleon Gulf, from Jinja 163

31. The last Map issued to illustrate Speke’s Theories, 1865 170

32. Speke’s Handwriting 172

33. Samuel Baker, 1865 176

34. A Native of Unyoro 184

35. Alexandrine Tinne 192

36. On the Jur River: Sudd blocking the Channel 195

37. Letter of Miss Tinne to her nephew 198

38. Georg Schweinfurth, 1875 203

39. Shiluks 211

40. “Papyrus, fifteen feet high” 218

41. A Path through the Forest 220

42. Schweinfurth’s Map 223

43. The Victoria Nyanza 226

44. Stanley’s idea of the Victoria Nyanza, 1880 228

45. The Victoria Nile flowing towards Lake Kioga 232

46. Nuërr Village, Sobat River 241

47. Joseph Thomson and Wilhelm Junker 242

48. A Stern-wheel Steamboat forcing its way up the Jur (Sue)
or main affluent of the Bahr-al-Ghazal 245

49. N.E. corner of Victoria Nyanza (with Samia Hills in
distance) 247

50. Joseph Thomson 248

51. Emin Pasha 252

52. Raphia Palms by a Central African stream 257

53. Sir Henry Stanley, G.C.B. 261

54. Shores of the Victoria Nyanza near Emin Pasha Gulf 262

55. Dr. Franz Stuhlmann 264

56. A Native of Unyamwezi from near south shores of Victoria
Nyanza 267

57. Sir Frederic D. Lugard 269

58. G. F. Scott-Elliott 271

59. Dr. Donaldson-Smith 272

60. Cutting the Sudd 274

61. Dr. C. Beke 281

62. Natives of the Baro (Upper Sobat) 284

63. Colonel J. B. Marchand 286

64. Gorge of the River Baro (Upper Sobat) 287

65. Berta Negroes 289

66. A Berta Village in the Matongwe Mountains 291

67. The Nile in Egypt 293

68. Nubia: a “Washout” on the Sudan Railway 294

69. Tropical Forest at Entebbe, on the northwest shores of the
Victoria Nyanza 295

70. Napoleon Gulf, looking South 302

71. The Birth of the Victoria Nile, at the Ripon Falls 304

72. On Lake Albert Edward (North-west Coast) 305

73. In the Libyan Desert 315

74. Orographical Features of the Nile Basin 328

75. Land Surface Features of the Nile Basin 328

THE NILE QUEST