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The Nile quest

Chapter 5: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
By Harry Johnston
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A chronological account traces efforts to locate and map the Nile and its basin, surveying ancient and classical knowledge, medieval and early modern inquiries, and nineteenth‑century expeditions. The narrative outlines competing theories and describes successive journeys that explored the Blue and White Nile systems, lakes, and tributaries, noting the roles of missionaries, traders, and military or private explorers in expanding geographic knowledge. Richly illustrated with maps, drawings, and photographs, the work summarizes cartographic revisions, synthesizes physical and basin geography, and concludes with biographical notes and a bibliography to document the progression of discovery and the evolving understanding of the river’s sources and drainage.

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