Chapter XXXII: Appendix: II

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS REFERRED TO OR CONSULTED IN THE COMPILATION OF THIS BOOK

_Previous to 1840_

HISTORY OF ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY, by Sir E. H. Bunbury. London, 1879.

LE NORD DE L’AFRIQUE DANS L’ANTIQUITÉ, by Vivien de St. Martin (full
of valuable and reliable information). Paris, 1863.

GÉOGRAPHIE DU MOYEN AGE, by J. Lelewel. (Brussels, 1852.)

DOCUMENTS SUR L’HISTOIRE DE L’AFRIQUE ORIENTALE, by Guillain. (Paris,
1850.)

GÉOGRAPHIE ANCIENNE, by D’Anville (the 1834 edition brought up to
date by Manne). Paris.

DOCTRINA PTOLEMAEI, etc., by Berlioux. (Paris, 1871.)

PTOLEMY AND THE NILE, by T. Desborough Cooley. (1854.)

GÉOGRAPHIE DES ANCIENS, by P. F. G. Gosselin. Paris, 1798 to 1813.

Various papers by Mr. E. G. Ravenstein in the Proceedings of the
Royal Geographical Society or in the GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE; also
privately written MS.

HISTORY OF EGYPT FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES, by W. M. Flinders Petrie (4
vols.). This and the same author’s article on (ANCIENT) EGYPT in
the new edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, 1902, are very
useful for ascertaining what information on the knowledge of the
Nile and the Land of Punt was prevalent in Ancient Egypt and at
the time of the Muhammadan invasion of the Nile countries.

HISTORY OF EGYPT, Vol. 1 (1902), by Dr. Wallis Budge.

PTOLEMY’S TOPOGRAPHY OF EASTERN EQUATORIAL AFRICA, by Dr. Schlichter
(Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, September, 1891).

PARTITION OF AFRICA, by Dr. J. Scott Keltie, Second Edition. 1895.

A SHORT RELATION OF THE RIVER NILE, etc. Proceedings of the Royal
Society, London, Nov. 1, 1668. (Portuguese Jesuits’ travels.)

TRAVELS OF THE JESUITS IN ETHIOPIA, by Bartholomeo Tellez. 1710.

HISTORIA DA AFRICA ORIENTAL PORTUGUEZA, por José Joaquim Lopes de
Lima. Lisbon, 1862.

A VOYAGE TO ABYSSINIA, by Father Jerome Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit,
from the French of LE GRAND. London, 1735.

NARRATIVE OF THE PORTUGUESE EMBASSY TO ABYSSINIA, 1520–1527. (Hakluyt
Society’s publications, Vol. 44, 1881.)

L’HYDROGRAPHIE AFRICAINE AU SEIZIÈME SIÈCLE, D’APRÈS LES PREMIÈRES
EXPLORATIONS PORTUGUAISES. (Lisbon, 1878.)

A DESCRIPTION OF THE EAST and some other Countries, Vol. 1 (Egypt),
by Richard Pococke, LL.D., F.R.S. London, 1743.

TRAVELS IN UPPER AND LOWER EGYPT, by C. S. Sonnini de Manoncourt
(translated by Henry Hunter). London, 1799.

TRAVELS TO DISCOVER THE SOURCE OF THE NILE IN 1768, 1773, by James
Bruce, in 5 vols. Edinburgh, 1790.

(Also an excellent abridgment in 1 vol., published in 1798.)

A Second Edition in 7 vols., 1805, is considered the best and
fullest account of Bruce’s travels, with some of the errors
corrected.

TRAVELS IN AFRICA, EGYPT, AND SYRIA, 1792–1798, by William George
Browne. London, 1800. (Darfur, Nubia.)

THE SOURCES OF THE NILE, by Charles T. Beke. London, 1860.

THE STORY OF AFRICA, by Dr. Robert Brown, Vols. 2 and 3, 1893, 1894.
(A most useful and trustworthy compilation.) London, Cassel.

VOYAGE À MEROE, au Fleuve Blanc, etc., by Frederic Cailliaud. 4 vols.
Paris, 1826.

A VOYAGE TO ABYSSINIA, by Henry Salt, 1814.

JOURNAL OF NAVIGATION ON THE BAHR-EL-ABIAD OR THE WHITE NILE, by A.
Linant de Bellefonds, 1828. African Association, London.

TRAVELS IN NUBIA, by John Louis Buckhardt. London, 1819.

REISEN IN NUBIEN, KORDOFAN, etc., by Eduard Rüppell. Frankfurt a. m.,
1829.

_From 1840 to the Present Day_

PREMIER VOYAGE À LA RECHERCHE DES SOURCES DU BAHR-AL-ABIAD OU NIL
BLANC: Journal de Voyage par Selim Bimbashi. _Bulletin_, Société
de Géographie. Paris, 1840.

DOCUMENTS ET OBSERVATIONS SUR LE COURS DU BAHR-AL-ABIAD, by D’Arnaud
Binbachi. Paris, 1843.

KHARTUM AND THE BLUE AND WHITE NILES (Journeys of Andrew Melly), by
George Melly. London, 1851. 2 vols.

EXPEDITION ZUR ENTDECKUNG DER QUELLEN DES WEISZEN NIL (1840, 1841),
by Ferdinand Werne. Berlin, 1848. (With admirable map of the
White Nile.)

JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, Vol. 17. (Brun-Rollet on
the Sobat River.)

ANNALES DE VOYAGE(?), by Andrea de Bono. Paris, July, 1862.

LE FLEUVE BLANC, by Jules Poncet. 1863.

EGYPT, THE SUDAN, AND CENTRAL AFRICA, etc., by John Petherick. 1861.

TRAVELS IN CENTRAL AFRICA AND EXPLORATION OF THE WESTERN NILE
TRIBUTARIES, 2 vols., by Mr. and Mrs. Petherick. 1869.

DIE DEUTSCHER EXPEDITION IN OST AFRICA, 1861–1862, by Heuglin and
Munzinger, in Petermann’s Geographische Mittheilungen, No. 13.

Heuglin also writes on Miss Tinne’s expedition in the same
periodical, No. 15, 1865, and gives further notes on the White
Nile.

TRAVELS IN THE REGION OF THE WHITE NILE, by Alexandrine Tinne. 1869.

GÉODÉSIE DE L’ÉTHIOPIE, by Antoine Thomson d’Abbadie. Paris, 1890. 1
vol.

LIFE IN ABYSSINIA, by Mansfield Parkyns. London, 1853. 2 vols.

GEOLOGY AND ZOÖLOGY OF ABYSSINIA, by W. T. Blanford. 1870.

THE NILE TRIBUTARIES OF ABYSSINIA, by S. W. Baker. 1867.

JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, Vol. 36, p. 2, article by
S. W. Baker.

JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, Vol. 36, pp. 1 to 18.

THE ALBERT NYANZA, etc., by Sir Samuel Baker, M.A. 1866.

THE ALBERT NYANZA, etc., by Sir Samuel Baker, M.A., New Edition. 1872.

TRAVELS, RESEARCHES, AND MISSIONARY LABOURS, by Dr. J. L. Krapf. 1860.

WHAT LED TO THE DISCOVERY OF THE NILE SOURCES, by Captain J. H.
Speke. 1864.

THE LAKE REGIONS OF CENTRAL AFRICA, by R. F. Burton. 1860.

JOURNAL OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE SOURCE OF THE NILE, by J. H. Speke.
1864.

A WALK ACROSS AFRICA, by J. A. Grant. 1865.

REISE IN DAS GEBIET DES WEISSEN NIL und seine westlichen Zuflusse,
1862–1864, von M. Theodor von Heuglin. Leipzig, 1869.

THE HEART OF AFRICA, by Georg Schweinfurth. 2 vols. London, 1873.

REISE IN NORDOST AFRICA, etc., von M. Theodor von Heuglin. Brunswick,
1869.

THROUGH THE DARK CONTINENT, by H. M. Stanley. 2 vols. 1877.

UGANDA AND THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN, by C. T. Wilson and R. W. Felkin. 1879.

SIR SAMUEL BAKER: a Memoir by T. Douglas Murray and A. Silva White.
London, 1895.

ISMAILIA, by Sir Samuel W. Baker. London, 1874.

REMARKS ON A PROPOSED LINE OF TELEGRAPH OVERLAND from Egypt to the
Cape of Good Hope, by (Sir) Edwin Arnold, Colonel J. A. Grant,
and others. London, 1876.

COLONEL GORDON IN CENTRAL AFRICA, 1874–1879, by George Birkbeck Hill.
London, 1881.

CENTRAL AFRICA: NAKED TRUTHS OF NAKED PEOPLE, by Colonel C.
Chaillé-Long. London, 1876.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE KHÉDIVIAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF CAIRO,
1860–1882. [Schuver, Marno and other travellers.]

ARTICLES of Mr. E. G. Ravenstein on the researches of the Rev. C.
Wakefield in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, 1875,
1880.

THROUGH MASAILAND, by Joseph Thomson. 1885.

TRAVELS IN AFRICA DURING THE YEARS 1875–1878; 1879–1883; 1882–1886;
1890, 1891, 1892. By Dr. Wilhelm Junker.

SEVEN YEARS IN THE SUDAN, by Romolo Gessi Pasha. London, 1892.

IN DARKEST AFRICA, by H. M. Stanley. 2 vols. 1890.

MIT EMIN PASHA INS HERZ VON AFRICA, by Dr. Franz Stuhlmann. Berlin,
1894.

ÉTHIOPIE MÉRIDIONALE, by Jules Borelli. Paris, 1890.

A NATURALIST’S WANDERINGS IN MID-AFRICA, by C. Scott Elliot. 1894.

DURCH MASAILAND ZUR NIL QUELLE, by Oscar Baumann. Berlin, 1894.

JOURNEYS TO THE NORTH OF UGANDA, by Colonel J. R. L. Macdonald and
Major H. H. Austin in Geographical Journal of August, 1899.

(Also Blue Books giving reports of Major Macdonald’s expedition.)

CAMPAIGNING ON THE UPPER NILE AND NIGER, by Seymour Vandeleur. 1899.

THE CAPE TO CAIRO, by E. Grogan and A. Sharp. 1900.

THE MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON, by J. E. Moore. 1902.

THE TANGANYIKA PROBLEM, by J. E. Moore. 1902.

AMONG SWAMPS AND GIANTS IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA, by H. H. Austin. 1902.

KING MENELIK’S DOMINIONS AND THE COUNTRY BETWEEN LAKE GALLOP (RUDOLF)
AND THE NILE VALLEY, by Captain M. S. Wellby. Geographical
Journal for September, 1900. London.

THE STORY OF AFRICA, Vols. 2, 3, and 4, by Dr. Robert Brown
(1893–1895).

THE UGANDA PROTECTORATE, by Sir Harry Johnston. 2 vols. 1902.

THE GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL (London) for July and December, 1901; and
October, 1902.

THE JOURNAL OF THE AFRICAN SOCIETY (London) 1902, 1903. [Colonel
Stanton’s articles.]

FOOTNOTES

[1] A superior type of dark-haired white man allied with Circassian and Persian, and perhaps a direct development from the Dravidian.

[2] The Kudu, which is a tragelaph rather than an antelope, exists at the present day in the eastern part of the Egyptian Sudan, between Abyssinia and the Nile, and its remains are found fossil in Algeria. It may therefore have extended even within the historical period to near the shores of the Mediterranean.

[3] This word is the origin of the Arabised _Fayūm_, a name given to the remains of a curious Nile reservoir, or backwater-lake, to the west of the Nile, in the Libyan Desert.

[4] The Biblical Yeôr. The Hebrews also called the Nile _Shikhor_, or the “Black.” The earliest Greek name for the river and country is _Aiguptos_ (the origin of “Egypt”). Later the name _Neilos_ (Nile) was given to the river. This became the later Arab and European _Nilus_, _Nil_, _Nile_, etc. The origin of the Greek names _Aiguptos_ and _Neilos_ is unknown, but _Neilos_ may be derived from the Persian word _nil_ = blue.

[5] Needless to say, in all cases the iris of these eyes is actually gray; but the gray almost verges on blue in some instances, while the absence or presence of a dark rim round the eyes gives or withholds the violet tinge to the gray.

[6] Ptolemy’s original maps have disappeared, and we only know them through the well-nigh innumerable copies that were made by Greek monks between 600 and 900 A.D., by Arabs in the Islamic Renaissance, by Latin monks and pilgrims, by Venetian and Catalan sailors, and Flemish or German geographers. Latterly many of these copyists imported into Ptolemy’s maps of the Nile much recent and modern information.

[7] Even to-day the local (unofficial) name of Berber or any of the districts round Berber is Ibrim.

[8] This mistake is hardly surprising, seeing that at Matama, in the country of Galabat, the most southern affluent of the Atbara approaches to within five miles of the most eastern affluent of the Blue Nile. See