. The story of Africa and its explorers. rests ofscience found ample succour and was, however, under Gordons orders thatChaille-Long, his chief of staff, was sent upthe Nile to Uganda (p. 143), discovering theso-called Lake Ibrahim, and proving, what hadhitherto been only suspected, that the riverwhich Speke had seen flowing out of VictoriaNyanza was the same that passed through thenorthern end of Albert Nyanza. Marno, aViennese, helped to lay down the countrybetween Lado and Makaraka, and in 1875-6Gessi (Vol. II., p. 137) settled once and forall the origin of the White Nile and Albe
. The story of Africa and its explorers. rests ofscience found ample succour and was, however, under Gordons orders thatChaille-Long, his chief of staff, was sent upthe Nile to Uganda (p. 143), discovering theso-called Lake Ibrahim, and proving, what hadhitherto been only suspected, that the riverwhich Speke had seen flowing out of VictoriaNyanza was the same that passed through thenorthern end of Albert Nyanza. Marno, aViennese, helped to lay down the countrybetween Lado and Makaraka, and in 1875-6Gessi (Vol. II., p. 137) settled once and forall the origin of the White Nile and AlbertNyanza. The same river had, in 1874,been charted with more exactitude thanbefore by Watson and Chippendale, officersactinsf under Gordon, and the navigationof Lake Albert been established by de Bellefonds (Vol. II., p. 287) chartedthe route between Gondokoro and thecapital of Uganda, and Gordon himself sur-veyed, in 1876, the Nile between Foweeraand Magungo, and the country betweenFoweera and Mrooli. About the same period. COLONEL CHAILLE-LONG. (From a Photograph by Lode and Whitfield.) the names of Munzinger Pasha, MohammedMoktar Bey, and Abdallah Fendy—the two 246 THE STOBY OF AFRICA. latter during the march of Raouf Pashaupon Harar (p. 235)—Mackillop, Ward, Abd-el-Razak Effendi, Durholz, Lockett, Field,Derrick, Duller, Dennison, Diah, Kamzy,Magdy, and other officers in the Egj^ptianservice, deserve honourable mention for minorcontributions to the geography of the moreremote parts of Egypt and its borders. Thecircumnavigation of Albert Nyanza by MasonBey has already been noticed (Vol. II.,p. 137), while several young Egyptian officers—Sabry, Samy, Nasr, etc., and more latelyProut, Pfund, Maliui, and others—ascended theNile to Dongola, and penetrated into the un-known south-east, and furnished the firstdetailed account of the route to Darfur. Thereconnaissance of the northern frontier oiAbyssinia by the officers attached to theexpedition under Osman Pash
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