The Nile quest : $b a record of the exploration of the Nile and its basinJohnston, Harry
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The Nile quest : $b a record of the exploration of the Nile and its basin
Johnston, Harry
Nile River
Stanley’s relief of Emin Pasha led to the withdrawal of the latter’s
government from the equatorial regions, and after a brief interval of
hesitation, to the foundation of a British Protectorate over Uganda
and the adjoining territories. Preparations for this Protectorate were
made by Captain (now General Sir Frederic) Lugard, who, in the course
of his settlement of the disturbed country of Uganda, journeyed round
Ruwenzori to Lake Albert Edward.[111] Shortly afterwards (as already
related) Emin Pasha returned to this part of the world accompanied
by Dr. Stuhlmann. Mr. Scott-Elliott, a Scottish naturalist, came out
in 1893–1894 for the purpose of making natural history collections.
He drew a very neat and truthful little map of the eastern and
southern flanks of Ruwenzori,--a map which until quite recently has
been somewhat overlooked by those who have compiled charts of this
region. Scott-Elliott, Lugard, Stuhlmann, Grogan, J. E. Moore, Malcolm
Fergusson, and several Belgian officers, such as the late Lieutenant
Meura, were not slow to point out and correct serious errors on the
part of Stanley in his rough delimitation of Lake Albert Edward. Lake
Dweru or Beatrice Gulf was also redrawn with advantage. But curiously
enough, all these travellers--Stanley included--omitted to point out
that the connection between Lake Dweru and Lake Albert Edward was not
a broad channel, but a narrow and winding river between high banks.
It was left to the present writer to make this correction on the map.
The author also, together with Lieutenant Meura, redrew with greater
correctness the upper course of the Semliki River, and in 1900 added
somewhat to our knowledge of the configuration of the Ruwenzori range.
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