The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile And Explorations of the Nile Sources by Sir Samuel W. Baker









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The Character I Gave Him Was One That I Trust Has Done Him Service:

He had shown an extraordinary amount of moral courage in totally reforming from his original habit of drinking.

I left my old servant with a heart too full to say good-bye; a warm squeeze of his rough, but honest black hand, and the whistle of the train sounded, - we were off!

I had left Richarn, and none remained of my people. The past appeared like a dream-the rushing sound of the train renewed ideas of civilization. Had I really come from the Nile Sources? It was no dream. A witness sat before me; a face still young, but bronzed like an Arab by years of exposure to a burning sun; haggard and worn with toil and sickness, and shaded with cares, happily now past; the devoted companion of my pilgrimage, to whom I owed success and life - my wife.

I had received letters from England, that had been waiting at the British Consulate; - the first I opened informed me, that the Royal Geographical Society had awarded me the Victoria Gold Medal, at a time when they were unaware whether I was alive or dead, and when the success of my expedition was unknown. This appreciation of my exertions was the warmest welcome that I could have received on my first entrance into civilization after so many years of savagedom: it rendered the completion of the Nile Sources doubly grateful, as I had fulfilled the expectations that the Geographical Society had so generously expressed by the presentation of their medal Before my task was done.

APPENDIX

COMPUTATION OF MR. BAKER'S OBSERVATIONS. HEIGHTS OF STATIONS ABOVE THE MEAN LEVEL OF THE SEA DETERMINED BY BOILING-WATER OBSERVATIONS BY S. W. BAKER, Esq. COMPUTED BY E. DUNKIN, Esq. OF GREENWICH OBSERVATORY. Feet.

Tarrangolle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2047 Obbo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3480 Shoggo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3770 Asua River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2619 Shooa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3619 Rionga's Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3685 Karuma, below falls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3737 Karuma, south of falls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3796 South of Karuma, at river level. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3794 M'rooli, river level, junction of Kafoor . . . . . . . . . . . 3796 West of M'rooli, on road to Albert lake . . . . . . . . . . . 4291 Land above lake, east cliff . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 4117 Albert N'yanza, lake level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2448 Shooa Moru, island of Patooan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2918 Gondokoro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 1636

The above heights will be found to differ considerably from those given by Mr. Baker in his letter written from Khartoum in May, 1865, and published in the TIMES newspaper in June. This arises from Mr. Baker having corrected his observations, whilst in the interior of Africa, from what have since proved erroneous data: the above are the correct computations of the same observations.

REMARKS ON THE THERMOMETER B. W. USED BY MR. S. W. BAKER IN DETERMINING HEIGHTS. By Staff-Commander C. George, Curator of Maps, Royal Geographical Society.

This thermometer was one of the three supplied by the Royal Geographical Society to Consul Petherick, in 1861, and was made by Mr. Casella.

At Gondokoro, in March, 1862, it was lent to Mr. Baker, who made all his observations with it, and brought it back safe:

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