Nile Quest, the, _prefatory note_, 76, 89, 104; stops for a time at Gondokoro, 115; Speke discovers main source of White Nile, 160; Baker’s explorations, 176 _et seq._; Alexandrine Tinne the romantic figure of the, 199; Schweinfurth’s share, 203 _et seq._; close of, 293 Nile River, 1 _et seq._, 206 _et seq._, 293 _et seq._, 313; names of, 7, 284; delta of, 9, 40, 298, 315; origin of, 15, 160, 267, 298; ultimate sources of, 22, 51 _et seq._, 55, 79, 123, 124, 160, (farthest source of all) 267; floods of, 56, 178, 179, 245, 275; basin of, area, 316; length of, 316 Nile, Valley of the, 1 _et seq._; like Rhine, 207 Nile, Victoria, 187, 189, 232 Nile, White, 6, 20, 22, 26, 43, 95, 207 _et seq._, 275, 292, 308 Nileland, 42, 177 _et seq._, 206 _et seq._, 293 _et seq._, 296 _et seq._; geography of, 299 _et seq._ Nilotic Negroes, 9, 21, 137, 209, 247, 288, 291, 295 Nimule, 97, 305 No, Lake, 201, 308 Nubia, Nubians, 11, 34, 43, 69, 98, 202, 235, 236, 295, 297 Nubian Alps, 203, 313 Nudity of Negroes, 137, 211, 251, 294, 297 Nuēr tribe, 288, 291 Nyam-nyam country and people, 103, 109, 112, 192, 194, 202, 217, 236, 257 _et seq._, 297 Nyando valley, river, 136, 302 Nyanza, name of, 121, 261 Nyasa, Lake, 113, 118, 138, 300, 302 Nyenam River, 216 Nzoia River, 302 Oguelokur River, 253, 273, 291, 292, 308 Olive, the wild, 204 Oman, 112 Omo River, 285 Ostriches, 16, 254 _Otocyon_ (long-eared fox), 137 Oxen, African, 147, 295 Paez, Father Pedro, 51, 63, 78, 319 Palms, 219 Pangani, 22, 28 Papyrus, 210, 213, 218, 244, 294 Paris, 62, 71, 91, 114 Parklands, African, 182, 252, 295 Parkyns, Mansfield, 111, 319 Parrot, Gray, 217 Peake, Malcolm, 275, 321 Pearson, C. W., 228 Peney, Alfred, 104, 106 _et seq._, 320 Periplus of the Red Sea, 22 Persia, Persians, 12, 31, 67, 89 Persian Gulf, 2, 9, 48 Peters, Dr. Carl, 249 Petherick, John, 100 _et seq._, 104, 133, 163, 168, 170, 182, 192, 202, 319 Petherick, Mrs., 103, 104 Petrie, Prof. Flinders, 5, 322 Phallic worship, 155 Phœnicians, the, 9 _et seq._ Photography, 106, 135, 234 Piaggia, 217, 219, 239, 284, 320 Pibor River, 287, 288, 292 _Pistia stratiotes_, 294 Pliny, 19, 23 Pococke, Richard, 74, 75, 319 Polynesians, 317 Poncet brothers, 108 Poncet (French doctor-explorer), 61, 66, 67 Pope, Papal Court, 66, 67, 97, 278 Portal, Capt. Raymond, 270 Portal, Sir Gerald, 270 Portugal, 45 Portuguese, 8, 18, 46 _et seq._, 65 _et seq._, 279, 317, 319, 321 Potagos (Greek traveller), 241 “Prester John,” 47 Primnis (Berber), 25 Pringle, Capt., 272, 273 Prokesch von Osten, 96, 319 _Protopterus_, fish, 182 Psametik, 10, 12, 15 Ptolemy (King), 13, 33, 34 Ptolemy, Ptolemæus, Claudius, 23, 24 _et seq._, 44, 58, 114 Punt, land of, 5, 6, 10