V. A Summary of the Ancients’ Knowledge of the Nile 42 VI. Portugal and Abyssinia 45 VII. French Inquiries and D’Anville’s Maps 65 VIII. Bruce and the Nile: Sonnini, Browne, and Bonaparte 73 IX. Muhammad Ali opens up the White Nile 91 X. Missionaries and Snow-Mountains 111 XI. Burton and Speke 115 XII. Speke and the Nile Quest 125 XIII. Speke in Uganda 150 XIV. From the Victoria Nyanza to Alexandria 160 XV. Samuel Baker and the Albert Nyanza 174 XVI. Alexandrine Tinne and Theodor von Heuglin 192 XVII. Schweinfurth and the Basin of the Bahr-al-Ghazal 201 XVIII. Schweinfurth’s Achievements and Descriptions 216 XIX. Stanley confirms Speke 223 XX. Gordon and his Lieutenants.--Junker and the Nile-Congo Water-parting 230 XXI. Joseph Thomson, Mt. Elgon, and Kavirondo Bay 246 XXII. Emin Pasha 250 XXIII. Stanley discovers the Mountains of the Moon and Lake Albert Edward.--The End of Emin 259 XXIV. German Explorers determine the Southern Limits of the Nile Basin 265 XXV. Geographical Work in the Uganda Protectorate 269 XXVI. The Eastern Basin of the Nile 276 XXVII. Conclusion 293 XXVIII. The Geography of the Nile Basin 299 APPENDIX I. The Roll of Fame of those who started on the Nile Quest 319 APPENDIX II. Bibliography 322 INDEX 329 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS SPEKE (from a drawing by the author) _Frontispiece_ _Page_ 1. The Nile and the Pyramids 4 2. The Mountains of the Moon 23 3. The Course of the Nile according to Ptolemy 24 4. An Arab Trader (Maskati) 40 5. Dapper’s Map (Amsterdam: 1686) giving the falsified results of Portuguese explorations 58 6. D’Anville’s Map of the Nile Basin 70