Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure (85 page)

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

Tanzania,
316
,
363

Taufika,
335

Tawfiqia
(gunboat),
391

Tel-el-Kebir, Battle of,
357

Thomson, Joseph,
348
,
363

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

Toro,
407
,
417

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

Turkey,
56
,
261

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

Ugogo,
74
,
80
,
129

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

Ukuni,
134
,
136

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

Unyanyembe,
9
,
96
,
247
,
277
,
293

Unyoro,
339

Urondogani,
167

Usagara Mountains,
73
,
79
-80

Usambara,
362

Usambiro,
374

Usavara,
301

Usui,
136
,
138

Uzaramo,
129

Victoria, Lake,
83
,
92
,
310
,
362

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, Queen,
28
,
382
,
391

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

Wagogo people,
130
-1,
134

Wahuma,
156
,
386

Wainwright, Jacob,
292
,
293

Waldecker, Dr Burckhardt,
316

Waldron, Sir John,
413

Waller, Horace,
280
,
291

Wangwana porters,
128
,
130
,
132
,
137
,
166
,
189
,
266
,
319
,
348
,
372
,
422

Wanyaturu tribe,
298

Wanyoro people,
168
,
169
,
171

Warundi tribe,
88
,
91
-2

Watuta tribe,
133
,
136

Wavuma tribe,
307

Webb, Capt. Francis,
264
,
280

Wenya people,
31
,
313

Westminster Abbey,
293
,
295
,
331

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

Witwatersrand,
4
,
385

The Wizard of the Nile
(M. Green),
416

Wolseley, General Sir Garnet,
307
,
357
,
388

Yao people,
28

Yambuya,
368
,
369

Young, James,
293

Yule, Henry,
324

Zambezi, River,
14
,
26
,
178
,
273

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.