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The Nile Quest

by Sir Harry Johnston

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  1. 1Note
  2. 2The Story of Exploration
  3. 3Prefatory Note
  4. 4Acknowledgments
  5. 5Chapter I — The Dawn of Nile Exploration
  6. 6Chapter II — The Greeks Interest Europe in the Nile Question
  7. 7Chapter III — Abyssinians and Jews
  8. 8Chapter IV — Islamites and Italians
  9. 9Chapter V — A Summary of the Ancients’ Knowledge of the Nile
  10. 10Chapter VI — Portugal and Abyssinia
  11. 11Chapter VII — French Inquiries and D’Anville’s Maps
  12. 12Chapter VIII — Bruce and the Nile: Sonnini, Browne, and Bonaparte
  13. 13Chapter IX — Muhammad Ali Opens Up the White Nile
  14. 14Chapter X — Missionaries and Snow-Mountains
  15. 15Chapter XI — Burton and Speke
  16. 16Chapter XII — Speke and the Nile Quest
  17. 17Chapter XIII — Speke in Uganda
  18. 18Chapter XIV — From Victoria Nyanza to Alexandria
  19. 19Chapter XV — Samuel Baker and the Albert Nyanza
  20. 20Chapter XVI — Alexandrine Tinne and Theodor von Heuglin
  21. 21Chapter XVII — Schweinfurth and the Basin of the Bahr-Al-Ghazal
  22. 22Chapter XVIII — Schweinfurth’s Achievements and Descriptions
  23. 23Chapter XIX — Stanley Confirms Speke
  24. 24Chapter XX — Gordon and His Lieutenants — Junker and the Nile-Congo…
  25. 25Chapter XXI — Joseph Thomson, Mt. Elgon, and Kavirondo Bay
  26. 26Chapter XXII — Emin Pasha
  27. 27Chapter XXIII — Stanley Discovers the Mountains of the Moon and Lak…
  28. 28Chapter XXIV — German Explorers Determine the Southern Limits of th…
  29. 29Chapter XXV — Geographical Work in the Uganda Protectorate
  30. 30Chapter XXVI — The Eastern Basin of the Nile
  31. 31Chapter XXVII — Conclusion
  32. 32Chapter XXVIII — The Geography of the Nile Basin
  33. 33Appendix I — The Roll of Fame of Those Who Started on the Nile Ques…
  34. 34Appendix II — Bibliography of Works Referred to or Consulted in the…

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