Thibaud, or Thibaut (French explorer and consular agent), 95, 96, 319 Thomson, Joseph, 82, 162, 217, 248, 249, 259, 260, 320 Tibet (Speke in), 126, 127 Tigre (Abyssinia), 48, 57, 66, 277, 278 Tigris River, 9 Tinne, Miss A., 192; names, 193; origin of Tinne family, 193; mother and aunt, 194; first Nile journeys, 194, 195; death of mother and aunt, 195; starts from Tripoli to explore Sahara and reach Bahr-al-Ghazal from N.W., 195; treacherously slain near Murzuk by Tawareqs, 196 _et seq._; character and appearance, 198, 199; on the Roll of Fame, 320 Tinne, Theodore F. S., 198 Tondi River, 216 Tonj River, 243, 307 Toro, 152, 270 Trade, Traders, 5, 96, 101, 213, 294 Tragelaph, Speke’s, 146 Trees, great forest, 220, 258 Tripoli, 77, 87, 195 _et seq._ Tsana, Lake, 6, 26 _et seq._, 33, 52, 55 _et seq._, 77 _et seq._, 309, 312 Tsetse fly, the, 35 Tu River, 273, 291 Tübingen, 112 Tunis, 77 Turkana, country, people, 6, 107, 272, 297 Turkey, 65, 73 Turks, the, 50, 53, 61, 65, 94, 95, 101, 195, 198, 318, 321 Ubangi River, 216, 241, 285 Ueberbacher, Father, 97 Uganda, _prefatory note_, 8, 228, 259; protectorate of, 35, 154; aristocracy of, 35, 148, 156; country of, 119, 148, 151 _et seq._; people of, 148, 152 _et seq._, 297; King of, 154 _et seq._, 226; Stanley in, 225–228; missionaries proceed to, 228, 229; Gordon and, 238; route, via Busoga, 248 Uganda Railway, 248 Ugogo, 137 Ugowe Bay, 224, 248, 273 Ujiji, 119, 120, 227 Ukerewe (Bukerebe), 118, 121, 229 “Um Suf” (_Vossia_) (reeds), 244, 294 Unyamwezi, 29, 72, 114, 120 _et seq._, 138, 224, 228, 260, 267, 303; porters, 139 Unyanyembe, 123 Unyoro, 37, 119, 147, 152, 163, 187, 270, 296 Usagara, 136 Usambara, 118 _Usnea_, lichen, 204, 221, 222 Usui, 142 Utica, 9 Valentia, Lord, 277 Vandeleur, Seymour, 270, 320 Vannutelli, L., 285, 301 Vaudet, Signor, 108 Venetians, Venice, 23, 24, 40, 41, 47, 202 Victoria Nyanza, 6, 23, 26, 35, 113, 117, 118; discovery of, 120 _et seq._; Burton’s depreciation of, 129; Speke’s estimate of, 150 _et seq._, 162, 189; Stanley’s circumnavigation, 224 _et seq._; direct route to, from Mombasa, 246 _et seq._; last discoveries of Stanley’s, 262; surveyed (northern coast) by Col. J. R. L. Macdonald, 272; by Whitehouse, Hobley, etc., 273; general features of, 302 _et seq._ Vinci, 99 Volcanoes, 210, 227, 297, 304, 314 Wadai, 201, 240, 242 Wadi Halfa, 96, 230 _Wadi_, or river-bed, 205 Waghorn, Lieut., 276 Wakefield, Rev. Mr., 247 Wales, Welsh, 100, 321 Wansleb, Michael, 63 Waterfalls, 56, 161, 187 Watson, Col. C. M., 231, 233 _et seq._, 320 Wellby, M. S., 272, 286, 287, 321 Welle River, 109, 202, 216, 240, 241, 307 Werne, Ferdinand, 96, 210, 289, 319