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Explorers of the Nile by the same author non-fiction Livingstone Baden-Powell Stanley Swimming with my Father fiction Somewhere Beyond Reproach Cushing’s Crusade The Missionary’s Wife Deep Water Explorers of the Nile The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure tim jeal New Haven & London First published 2011 in the United States by Yale University Press and in Great Britain by Faber and Faber Limited. Copyright © 2011 by Tim Jeal. All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers. Yale University Press books may be purchased in quantity for educational, business, or promotional use. For information, please e-mail [email protected] (U.S. office) or [email protected] (U.K. office). Typeset by Donald Sommerville. Printed in the United States of America. Library of Congress Control Number: 2011933872 ISBN 978-0-300-14935-7 (hardcover : alk. paper) A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper). 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To my daughters, Jessica, Lucy and Emily This page intentionally left blank Contents R Illustrations ix Plates xiii Maps xvii Introduction 1 part 1 Solving the Mystery 1 Blood in God’s River 13 2 A Great Misalliance 36 3 A Rush of Men Like a Stormy Wind 45 4 About a Rotten Person 56 5 Everything Was to be Risked for This Prize 65 6 Promises and Lies 95 7 A Blackguard Business 112 8 Our Adventurous Friend 122 9 As Refulgent as the Sun 145 10 An Arrow into the Heart 156 11 Nothing Could Surpass It! 166 12 The Nile is Settled 178 13 A Hero’s Aberrations 190 14 Death in the Afternoon 199 15 The Doctor’s Dilemma 209 16 The Glory of Our Prize 215 17 A Trumpet Blown Loudly 241 18 Almost in Sight of the End 246 19 Never to Give Up the Search Until I Find Livingstone 257 20 The Doctor’s Obedient and Devoted Servitor 270 21 Threshing Out the Beaten Straw 279 22 Nothing Earthly Will Make Me Give Up My Work 285 23 Where Will You Be? Dead or Still Seeking the Nile? 294 24 The Unknown Half of Africa Lies Before Me 310 part 2 The Consequences 25 Shepherds of the World? 329 26 Creating Equatoria 335 27 An Unheard of Deed of Blood 345 28 Pretensions on the Congo 352 29 An Arabian Princess and a German Battle Squadron 359 30 ‘Saving’ Emin Pasha and Uganda 365 31 The Prime Minister’s Protectorate 376 32 To Die for the Mahdi’s Cause 385 33 Equatoria and the Tragedy of Southern Sudan 395 34 A Sin not Theirs: The Tragedy of Northern Uganda 406 coda Lacking the Wand of an Enchanter 422 appendix Fifty Years of Books on the Search for the Nile’s Source 438 Acknowledgements 443 Sources 445 Notes 458 Index 494 List of Illustrations R An Arab-Swahili slave trader murders a sick slave, an engraving in The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa edited by Horace Waller 21 Massacre of the Manyema women in Nyangwe, an engraving in The Last Journals 32 ‘A large spear . . . stuck firmly into the soil’, an engraving in The Last Journals 35 Speke’s escape from his captors, the frontispiece of Speke’s What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile 54 Naval vessels at Zanzibar, an engraving in Stanley’s How I Found Livingstone in Central Africa [HIFL] 69 Sidi Mubarak Bombay, a photograph at the Royal Geographical Society 71 Burton’s drawings of the heads of Africans, in his The Lake Regions of Central Africa 76 The Ladies’ Smoking Party, an engraving in Lake Regions 77 Kazeh, an engraving in Lake Regions 82 African village scenes, in Speke’s Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile [Journal] 97 Sir Roderick Murchison. National Portrait Gallery, London 113 John Blackwood, frontispiece of Annals of a Publishing House (Vol. III John Blackwood), ed. Mrs Gerald Porter (1898) 122 Captain James Grant, in Harry Johnston’s The Nile Quest (1903) 127 Speke and Grant present Rumanika with a rhinoceros’ head, an engraving in Speke’s Journal 142 The road to the kabaka’s palace, an engraving in J. W. Harrison’s The Story of the Life of Mackay of Uganda 148 Mutesa’s musicians, in Speke’s Journal 150 ix

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Nothing obsessed explorers of the mid-nineteenth century more than the quest to discover the source of the White Nile. It was the planet's most elusive secret, the prize coveted above all others. Between 1856 and 1876, six larger-than-life men and one extraordinary woman accepted the challenge. Show
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