Natives' and Lawyers'
Wigs - Result of the Turks' Razzias - Loss of Cattle by the Turks - The
Fight with Werdella - Courage of Werdella - Werdella defeats the Turks -
Murder of a Native - Runaway slaves recaptured - Brutality of the Turks
- Little Abbai - The Children of the Camp - Pleasant Time with the
Children - Shoot a Crocodile - The Black Rhinoceros - The Lira
Head-dress - Native Use of Donkeys
CHAPTER XVII.
THE NATIVES IN MOURNING.
Results of the Ivory Campaign - Preparations for starting Homeward -
Part regretfully with the Children - The Traveller's Tree - View of the
Nile - Koshi and Madi - Gebel Kookoo - On Speke and Grant's Route -
Changes in the Nile - The Asua River - Suspicious Movements of the
Natives - Attacked in the Pass - Night in a hostile Country - Camp
surrounded by Natives - Poisoned Arrows shot into Camp - Sight Belignan
- Approach Gondokoro - Arrive at Gondokoro - Neither Letters nor
Supplies - Disappointment.
CHAPTER XVIII.
THE LATEST NEWS FROM KHARTOUM.
Intelligence from Khartoum - Retreat of the Slaves - Influence gained
over Traders' People - Sail from Gondokoro - The Nile cleared of its
Mystery - The Victoria Source - Ptolemy's Theory - Rainfall - Affluents
of the White Nile - Action of the Abyssinian Rivers - Colonization
impossible - Slavery the Curse of Africa - Impotence of European Consuls
- Impossibility of convicting a Trader - Central Africa opened to
Navigation - Tribes of Central Africa - Vestiges of a Pre-Adamite
Creation - Geological Formation - Hypothesis of Equatorial Lakes - Sir
Roderick Murchison's Theories confirmed - Sir Roderick Murchison's
Address
CHAPTER XIX.
THE BLACK ANTELOPE.
Antelope shooting - Arrive at Junction of Bahr el Gazal - Arrive at the
Nile Dam - Character of the Obstruction - Passage through the Dam - The
Plague breaks out - Saat smitten by the Plague - Entertained by Osman
Bey - Saat dies - Burial of Saat - Arrival at Khartoum - Albert Lake
Reservoir of Nile - Destruction by the Plague - A Darkness that might be
felt - Horrible Slave Cargo - Meet with Mahommed Her - Mahommed Her
punished - Nearly wrecked - Stranded among Cataracts - Clear the Danger
- Start from Berber to Souakim - A Row in the Desert - Combat with the
Arabs - "Bravo, Zeneb!" - Disarm the Arabs - Cross the Mountains - First
View of the Sea - Souakim - Arrival at Suez - Farewell to Africa -
Exertions appreciated
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
General Map of Country, Nile Basin
Arms and Instruments of various Tribes
Nuehr Natives coming to the Boats
Joctian, Chief of the Nuehr Tribe
Chief of Kytch and Daughter
Starving boy of Kytch Tribe begging
The Boys who have begged
A Homestead of the Bari Tribe-The usual Attitudes of the Men
Legge the Chief
Commoro running to the Fight
Bokke-Wife of Moy, Chief of Latooka
Drake's Head
Crimson-headed Spur-winged Goose
The Latooka Funeral Dance
Latooka Blacksmiths
The last Charge
Head-dress of Obbo (1) and Shoggo (2)
Women of Obbo
Katchiba's eldest Son
Katchiba and his Hebe on a Journey
Overhauling the Giraffes
The Obbo War Dance
Mehedehet Antelope
Natives of Lira (1) and Madi (2) in the Camp at Shooa
My Examination by the Chiefs on entering Unyoro-Resolved,
that I am Speke's Brother
The Start from the M'rooli for the Lake with Kamrasi's Satanic
Escort
The Storm on the Albert Lake
The Baggera
Lepidosiren Annecteus
The Murchison Falls, about 120 ft. high from the Victoria Nile
or Somerset River to the Level of the Albert Lake
The Welcome on our Return to the Camp at Shooa
Head of Black Rhinoceros
The Chief of the Lira Tribe
Skirmish with the Natives
INTRODUCTION.
The primary object of geographical exploration is the opening to general
intercourse such portions of the earth as may become serviceable to the
human race. The explorer is the precursor of the colonist; and the
colonist is the human instrument by which the great work must be
constructed - that greatest and most difficult of all undertakings - the
civilization of the world.
The progress of civilization depends upon geographical position. The
surface of the earth presents certain facilities and obstacles to
general access; those points that are easily attainable must always
enjoy a superior civilization to those that are remote from association
with the world.
We may thus assume that the advance of civilization is dependent upon
facility of transport. Countries naturally excluded from communication
may, through the ingenuity of man, be rendered accessible; the natural
productions of those lands may be transported to the seacoast in
exchange for foreign commodities; and commerce, thus instituted, becomes
the pioneer of civilization.
England, the great chief of the commercial world, possesses a power that
enforces a grave responsibility. She has the force to civilize. She is
the natural colonizer of the world. In the short space of three
centuries, America, sprung from her loins, has become a giant offspring,
a new era in the history of the human race, a new birth whose future
must be overwhelming. Of later date, and still more rapid in
development, Australia rises, a triumphant proof of England's power to
rescue wild lands from barrenness; to wrest from utter savagedom those
mighty tracts of the earth's surface wasted from the creation of the
world, - a darkness to be enlightened by English colonization. Before the
advancing steps of civilization the savage inhabitants of dreary wastes
retreated: regions hitherto lain hidden, and counting as nothing in the
world's great total, have risen to take the lead in the world's great
future.
Thus England's seed cast upon the earth's surface germinates upon soils
destined to reproduce her race. The energy and industry of the mother
country become the natural instincts of her descendants in localities
adapted for their development; and wherever Nature has endowed a land
with agricultural capabilities, and favourable geographical position,
slowly but surely that land will become a centre of civilization.
True Christianity cannot exist apart from civilization; thus, the spread
of Christianity must depend upon the extension of civilization; and that
extension depends upon commerce.
The philanthropist and the missionary will expend their noble energies
in vain in struggling against the obtuseness of savage hordes, until the
first steps towards their gradual enlightenment shall have been made by
commerce.
