Berbers, the, 199 Berkeley, Fort, 106 Berlin, 203 Bermudez, 47 _et seq._ Berta Negroes, 289, 297 Bilma, 20 Binesho tribe, 290 Bion (Greek explorer), 19 Birds, 208, 255, 295 Biri River, 216 Blackwater fever, 107, 195 Blackwood’s Magazine, 128, 170 Blandford, Dr. W. T., 282 Blood-drinking (Abyssinian, East African), 81, 82 Blundell, Weld, 287, 321 Bogos country, 283, 294 “Bombay” (Speke’s faithful), 130, 165, 169 Bonchamps, De, 286 Bongo tribe, 217 Bono, Andrea de, 106 _et seq._, 165, 168, 187 Bor, 106, 285, 291, 292 Boran Galas, 72 _Borassus_, palm (_Doleb_), 253, 254 Borelli, Jules, 285 Bornu, 239, 242 Botany, _see_ Flora Bottego, V., 285, 320 Brahuis (of Beluchistan), 2 Brèvedent, Father, 67 Bright, R. G. T., 271, 286, 321 British, the, 293, 317, 318, 319 _et seq._; in Egypt, 94, 95; in Uganda, 154, 161, 228, 269; in Abyssinia, 282; in Egypt and Sudan, 293 British Association, 170, 172 British government, its indifference to African exploration, 169, 188 Browne, Wm. Geo., 88, 89, 319 Bruce, James, 71, 75 _et seq._; and the Guinea worm, 81; raw-flesh eating, 81, 82; death, 86; work in Abyssinian history, 276, 319 Brun-Rollet, 96, 99, 319 _Bucerosia_, 204, 218 Buchta, Richard, 234 Buddu, 150, 151, 156 Buffon, Comte de (naturalist), 80, 87 Bumbiri, Island of, 225, 226 Bunbury, Sir E. H., 25 Burckhardt, J. L., 92, 93, 319 Burton, Sir Richard F., 115 _et seq._, 127 _et seq._ (relations with Speke), 128 _et seq._, 170, 171, 172, (character) 131 _et seq._; transference to West Africa, 170; theories of geography, 171, 231; hesitation to take Mombasa route, 246 Burton, Lady, 172 Bushmen (pygmies), 1, 31 Busoga, 35, 152, 162, 224, 260, 303 Byzantine Empire, 30, 37, 40 Cæsar, Julius, 9 Cailliaud, Frederic, 91, 92, 289, 319 Cairo, 67 _et seq._, 75, 93 Cambridge, 93 Cambyses, 11, 12, 24 Camel, the, 21, 294 Camerons, 148 Cannibals, Cannibalism, 194, 202, 236 Cape of Good Hope, 47, 87, 134, 266 “Cape-to-Cairo,” phrase and telegraph, 228, 274 Capellen, Baroness Van, 193, 195 Carthage, 10, 15 Casabi (Italian explorer), 239 Cattle, breeds of African, 147; abundant, 208, 295 Caucasian and Nile discovery, _prefatory note_, 19, 297, 298, 317 Caucasian, Caucasian race, 2, 14, 31, 42, 146, 148, 297, 317 Cecchi (Italian explorer), 235, 279 Centurions, Nero’s two, 20, 21, 26, 274 Ceylon, 175 Chad, Lake, 6, 15, 20, 147, 195, 199, 240 Chaillé-Long, Col., 238, 239, 320 Charles II., 125 Chemorongi Mountains, 272 Chiarini (Italian explorer), 235 Chimpanzee, the, 5, 217, 222 Chippendall, Capt., 231, 233, 234 Christianity, 34, 35,37 _et seq._, 48, 259 Church Missionary Society, 112, 113, 228, 246, 277, 281 Circassians, 11, 70, 94, 95 Citerni, C., 285