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	GONDOKORO - LoveToKnow Article on GONDOKORO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Besides houses for the civil and military authorities and the lines for the troops, there are a few huts inhabited by Ban, the natives of this part of the Nile.
		The importance of Gondokoro lies in the fact that it is within a few miles of the limit of navigability of the Nile from Khartum up stream.
		Gondokoro was first visited by Europeans in I84II84~, when expeditions sent out by Mebemet Ali, pasha of Egypt, ascended the Nile as far as the foot of the rapids above Gondokoro.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GO/GONDOKORO.htm (346 words)

	Gondokoro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gondokoro was the scene for the arrival of John Hanning Speke and James Augustus Grant after their two years and five months long journey through Central Africa from Zanzibar.
		They arrived exhausted on February 13, 1863 and expected to be met by the British consul John Petherick and his rescue party.
		The site of Gondokoro is near to the modern-day city of Juba.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gondokoro (254 words)

	Gondokoro -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		From this point the journey south to (A landlocked republic in eastern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1962) Uganda was continued overland.
		They arrived exhausted on February 13, 1863 and expected to be met by the British consul John Peverick and his rescue party.
		The site of Gondokoro is near to the modern-day city of (Click link for more info and facts about Juba) Juba.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/go/gondokoro.htm (222 words)

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		Gondokoro is merely a station of the ivory traders, occupied for about two months during the year, after which time it is deserted, when the annual boats return to Khartoum and the remaining expeditions depart for the interior.
		There were a great number of men at Gondokoro belonging to the various traders, who looked upon me with the greatest suspicion; they could not believe that simple travelling was my object, and they were shortly convinced that I was intent upon espionage in their nefarious ivory business and slave-hunting.
		The native dwellings are the perfection of cleanliness; the domicile of each family is surrounded by a hedge of the impenetrable euphorbia, and the interior of the enclosure generally consists of a yard neatly plastered with a cement of ashes, cow-dung, and sand.
	www.free-ebook-information.com /Word-Files/The-Albert-N'Yanza.doc (18628 words)

	The Discover of the Source of the Nile By John Hanning Speke - Chapter 20
		He came thus far with Mahamed from Gondokoro two years ago, and then returned, because he was alarmed at the accounts the people gave of the countries to the southward, and he did not like the prospect of having to remain a whole rainy season with Mahamed at Faloro.
		The Bari people at Gondokoro were described as being more tractable than those of Kich, being of a braver and more noble nature; but they were all half-starved--not because the country was too poor to produce, but because they were too lazy to cultivate.
		The shell of the brick church at Gondokoro, and the cross on the top of a native-built hut in Kich, are all that will remain to bear testimony of these Christian exertions to improve the condition of these heathens.
	touregypt.net /sourcec20.htm (7023 words)

	galton 1861 petherick
		The latitude of Gondokoro is especially desired, and the meridian altitudes of at least six stars ; three north and three south should there be observed.
		Longitudes by the exceedingly simple methods of the eclipses of Jupiter's satellites, or of occultations of stars, to be made at Gondokoro and at the furthest point of yourr travel, or at places adjacent to these.
		It is of great geographical importance that the breadth, depth, and velocity of the Upper White Nile and its tributaries be ascertained, in order that their sections may be protracted, and the quantity of water that passes down them be determined.
	galton.org /cgi-bin/searchImages/search/essays/pages/galton-1861-petherick.htm (745 words)

	In the Heart of Africa By Sir Samuel White Baker- Chapter 13 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		I now understood that the party from that station were expected to arrive at Gondokoro in a few days, and I determined to await them, as their ivory porters returning might carry my baggage and save the backs of my transport animals.
		There was no European beyond Gondokoro, thus I should be the only white man among this colony of wolves; and I had in perspective a difficult and uncertain path, where the only chance of success lay in the complete discipline of my escort and the perfect organization of the expedition.
		They wished to leave Gondokoro as soon as possible, en route for England, but delayed their departure until the moon should be in a position for an observation for determining the longitude.
	www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in /resources/english/etext-project/travel/africa/chapter13.html (3278 words)

	Encyclopedia: John Hanning Speke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		They travelled on the west side around Lake Victoria without actually seeing much of it, but on the north side of the lake, Speke found the Nile flowing out of it and discovered the Rippon Falls.
		Speke's voyage did not resolve the issue, Burton claimed that because Speke had not followed the Nile from the place it flowed out of Lake Victoria to Gondokoro, he could not be sure they were the same river.
		A debate was planned between the two on September 16, 1864, but Speke died just one day before, of a hunting accident - although Burton and some others believed it might actually have been suicide.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/John-Hanning-Speke (847 words)

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		Upon arrival at Gondokoro, after the tedious process of cutting through 50 miles of swamp and vegetable matter, via the Bahr Giraffe, I had requested the Khedive to issue an order that the Governor of Khartoum should immediately commence the great work of re-opening the White Nile.
		I had originally sent up six steamers from Cairo to ply between Khartoum and Gondokoro; these had been simply employed as far as Fashoda station, but as the Nile was now open, they at once established a rapid and regular communication with the equatorial provinces.
		At Gondokoro I had constructed a steel steamer of 108 tons, and I had left ready packed for land transport a steamer of the same metal 38 tons, in addition to two steel life-boats of each 10 tons, for conveyance to the Albert N'yanza.
	www.ebookslib.com /?a=sa&b=460 (2728 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : Alexine and the Nile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		For this venture their family's money was important, since they were able to afford a small steamer; it would tow two boats laden with provisions to feed them and their Arab crew, their servants, some soldiers, a horse, a donkey and five dogs (which had to be put ashore twice a day).
		In Gondokoro, their approach generated a wave of excitement; their little steamer, the first such craft ever seen there, caused a sensation when it docked.
		From Gondokoro the Dutch ladies—though told that it was impossible to go beyond—promptly set off on an excursion up river and got as far as Juba before retreating.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/198301/alexine.and.the.nile.htm (1865 words)

	Baker, Sir Samuel White on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		He explored the Nile tributaries in Ethiopia in 1861-62.
		Going up the Nile from Cairo, he reached Gondokoro in 1863.
		He continued his journey southward in spite of the opposition of Arab slave traders and visited Lake Albert (Albert Nyanza) on Mar. 14, 1864.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/Baker-S1W1.asp (331 words)

	GONDOKORO - Online Information article about GONDOKORO
		The importance of Gondokoro lies in the fact that it is within a few See also:
		Gondokoro was first visited by Europeans in 1841-1841, when expeditions sent out by Mehemet See also:
		power in 1898 Gondokoro was occupied by British troops and has since formed the northernmost post on the Nile of the Uganda protectorate (see See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /GOA_GRA/GONDOKORO.html (390 words)

	JOHN PETHERICK - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN PETHERICK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		He was entrusted with a mission by the Royal Geographical Society to convey to Gondokoro relief stores for Captains Speke and Grant.
		Petherick got boats to Gondokoro in 1862, but Speke and Grant had not arrived.
		They regained Gondokoro (where one of their boats with stores was already stationed) in February 1863, four days after the arrival of Speke and Grant, who had meantime accepted the hospitality of Mr (afterwards Sir) Samuel Baker.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PE/PETHERICK_JOHN.htm (445 words)

	The Discover of the Source of the Nile By John Hanning Speke - Chapter 20
		He came thus far with Mahamed from Gondokoro two years ago, and then returned, because he was alarmed at the accounts the people gave of the countries to the southward, and he did not like the prospect of having to remain a whole rainy season with Mahamed at Faloro.
		The Bari people at Gondokoro were described as being more tractable than those of Kich, being of a braver and more noble nature; but they were all half-starved--not because the country was too poor to produce, but because they were too lazy to cultivate.
		The shell of the brick church at Gondokoro, and the cross on the top of a native-built hut in Kich, are all that will remain to bear testimony of these Christian exertions to improve the condition of these heathens.
	www.touregypt.net /sourcec20.htm (7023 words)

	Travel web site - White Nile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The head of the navigable waterways may be said to be the town of Gondokoro, on the White Nile, about 1,000 miles above the city of Khartum, Gondokoro is the terminus of several caravan routes extending into the Congo, as well as Uganda and Unyoro.
		Small steamers ply upon the water-courses between Khartum and Gondokoro, connecting at the former city with steamers for Cairo.
		In recent years tourists have extended their trips from the Lower Nile as far as Gondokoro, but the rivers are utilized principally for the transportation of products from the territory beyond Gondokoro and Khartum.
	travel-web-site.net /content/view/24 (961 words)

	BAKER, Sir Samuel White
		In 1862 he proceeded up the Nile to Gondokoro (in the Sudan), where he met the British explorers John Hanning Speke and James Augustus Grant (1827–92).
		Speke and Grant had left Bagamoyo (now in Tanzania) in 1860, and the former had found Lake Victoria to be the true source of the Nile.
		Informed by Speke of another lake, said to be crossed by the Nile on its course to Gondokoro, Baker continued his journey, despite hostile slave traders and a mutiny of his troops; on March 14, 1864, he reached the lake and named it Lake Albert.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia/article.jsp?link=FWNE.fw..ba010600.a (684 words)

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		At Gondokoro I had constructed a steel steamer of 108 tons, and I had left ready packed for land transport a steamer of the same metal 38 tons, in addition to two steel life-boats of each 10 tons, for conveyance to the Albert N'yanza.
		In the description of this enterprise, which terminated in the suppression of the slave trade of the White Nile and the annexation of a large equatorial territory to Egypt, I shall be compelled to expose many abuses which were the result of misgovernment in the distant provinces of Upper Egypt.
		A vessel arriving from Khartoum in her passage to Gondokoro would find, after passing through a broad river of clear water, that her bow would suddenly strike against a bank of solid compressed vegetation--this was the natural dam that had been formed to an unknown extent: the river ceased to exist.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext03/ismla10.txt (21350 words)

	Book II, Chapter XXV. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		You are aware that hitherto the Nile from about eighteen miles south of Gondokoro to the junction of it with the Unyame Hor (Apuddo, Hiameye, Dufte, or Mahadé, as different people call it) has been considered impassable and a torrential stream.
		Happily I came on the river at the commencement of its rise at end of March, and found it navigable as far as Kerri, which is forty-six miles south of Gondokoro, and about forty miles north of the point where the Nile is navigable to the lake.
		Gondokoro was the seat of Government of the Province of the Equator.
	digital.library.upenn.edu /women/burton/romance/chapter-II-XXV.html (7438 words)

	The Baldwin Project: The Story of General Gordon by Jeanie Lang
		When Gordon reached Gondokoro he saw that it was absurd to pretend that the Khedive ruled any of the country outside its walls.
		Gordon felt that to make friends with those people, to show them that he was [80] sorry for them, and that he wished to help them, was the first thing to be done if he was to be in reality their Governor.
		He sent to Gondokoro for ammunition for his mountain howitzer, [86] and the commandant there thought it a good chance to pawn off on him some that was so damp as to be useless.
	www.mainlesson.com /display.php?author=langjean&book=gordon&story=slavers (5047 words)

	Nauplius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The plague having broken out at Gondokoro, the victims among river;--it is impossible to describe the horrible effluvium produced by station.
		It is only justice to Gondokoro in 1863.html">1863, he had always behaved well since peace was slave-hunter, like others of the White Nile, he had frequently yielded been massacred without pity.
		They now acknowledged the interference of European powers, and the present ruin of their trade written from Gondokoro to the Consul-general of Egypt in 1863, when the they were completely cowed.
	www.city-search.org /na/nauplius.html (308 words)

	Egypt - The Soudan
		Above Gondokoro the river had at several -points been blocked up with great swampy masses of reeds and grass, which stretched from bank to bank, and completely dammed the upper current.
		The main object of these extended powers was, no doubt, to give full scope to the great administrative ability of the new governor-general, whose previous authority only began at Gondokoro, while the Soudan proper—which was ruled or mis-ruled by native officials—lay north of that point.
		But, almost co-ordinately with this, in the new Pasha's firman were unlimited powers to suppress slave-hunting and abolish the slave trade throughout the whole extent of his government : so absolute, indeed, were these that, in a letter * published immediately after his appointment.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles36/egypt-18.shtml (2787 words)

	Bari stool (1927.70.2) from the Southern Sudan Project
		It is 123 mm high, with the seat measuring 186 by 101 mm across and having a thickness of 8 mm; the legs are 32 mm wide and 26 mm thick, with a foot length of 55 mm.
		This object was obtained in Gondokoro by an unknown collector in 1902, and sold by Stevens Auction Rooms on 18 January 1927 to the Pitt Rivers Museum.
		Bari Stool, Gondokoro Uganda 1902 [oval paper label with serrated edge, stuck to object, probably auction sticker; RTS 9/4/2005].
	southernsudan.prm.ox.ac.uk /details.php?a=1927.70.2 (385 words)

	Ism : Isms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		I had originally sent up six steamers from Cairo to ply between Khartoum but as the Nile was now open, they at once established a rapid and difficulty had vanished, and Gondokoro was linked with the outer world with much care could now be utilized.
		In moral change was effected throughout the officers and troops; they felt garrisons in Egyptian territory.
		At Gondokoro I had constructed a steel steamer of 108 tons, and I had tons, in addition to two steel life-boats of each 10 tons, for steamer of 251 tons.
	www.free-web-template.org /is/isms.html (274 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : The Expeditions of Chaille-Long (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		On the final leg they took another steamer to Gondokoro, the headquarters of the Equatoria provincial administration.
		In Gondokoro, the restless Gordon almost immediately decided to return to Khartoum to await the rear column, leaving Chaillé-Long, completely new to the upper Nile, in command of a base with a garrison of 1,500 men.
		After recovering from a seriousbout of fever in Khartoum, Chaillé-Long returned to Gondokoro and then went on to Lado, slightly downstream and on the west bank of the Nile; because of Gondokoro's unhealthy climate, Gordon had relocated his headquarters.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/197806/the.expeditions.of.chaille-long.htm (3161 words)

	Africa. Exploration of Africa.
		In the south the artist Baines had crossed the Kalahari Desert from damara Land to the falls of the Zambeze.
		In 1862 Petherick made an important journey of exploration in the Nile region west of Gondokoro.
		The year 1864 was marked by the discovery of a second great reservoir lake of the Nile, near the latitude of the Victoria Nyassa, by Baker, pushing southward from Gondokoro.
	www.1902-encyclopedia.com /A/AFR/africa-01.html (3653 words)

	EXPLORION - Travel & Exploration Online - In the Heart of Africa - Page 65
		Gondokoro - A mutiny quelled - Arrival of Speke and Grant - The sources of the Nile - Arab duplicity -
		Grant, should they arrive at Gondokoro during my absence in the interior.
		There were a great number of men at Gondokoro belonging to the various traders, who looked upon me
	explorion.net /s.w.baker-in-the-heart-of-africa/page-65.html (581 words)

	In the Heart of Africa By Sir Samuel White Baker- Chapter 23 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Turks had packed their ivory; the large tusks were fastened to poles to be carried by two men, and the camp was a perfect mass of this valuable material.
		Long before Ibrahim's men were ready to start, our oxen were saddled and we were off, longing to hasten into Gondokoro and to find a comfortable vessel with a few luxuries and the post from England.
		He was a fine strong lad of nearly fifteen, and he now lay helplessly on his mat, and cast wistful glances at the face of his mistress as she gave him a cup of cold water mixed with a few lumps of sugar that we had obtained from the traders at Gondokoro.
	www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in /resources/english/etext-project/travel/africa/chapter23.html (3740 words)

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