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The Geographical Journal (Journal of the Royal Geographical Society): Volume XVI, No. 6 [339r] (30/232)
The record is made up of 1 volume (111 folios). It was created in Dec 1900. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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AN EXPEDITION BETWEEN LAKE RUDOLF AND THE NILE. 603
strove to commit suicide by hiding if the march was long, and gave me
and the Somalis infinite trouble in hunting them up. Two Indians
were cunning enough to evade the Somalis search-parties sent after
them at different points on the journey, and were never heard from
again. Whenever the march was protracted over five hours, either
my assistant or I fell back far to the rear of the caravan to protect tired
Indians from themselves.
Between Goff and Lake Stefanie the Abyssinian highlands are
Mursu.
Sikh. Somali. Gurkha.
ON THE 0310 AT 31UKSU.
continued south as a long mountain chain all the way to Mount Korol i
and Marsabit, near the southern end of Lake Rudolf, a fact that I was
not aware of on my first journey. Proceeding westward three marches
from Gof, and passing Egder, we arrived on November 8 at a large
settlement called Gorili, at an elevation of 3000 feet, where the peop e
welcomed us with large vessels of honey and milk. There were Arab
and Somali traders among them from Kismayu, buying ivory m
exchange for cattle.
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A summary of the journal's contents appears on folio 327, and the entire contents are listed on folio 328. The contents of the journal are as follows.
- The President's Opening Address, Session 1900-1901 (ff 336-337).
Articles:
- 'The Expedition between Lake Rudolf and the Nile' by Dr Arthur Donaldson Smith (ff 337-350) and a Map of North East Africa (f 394)
- 'The Voyages of Diogo Cão and Bartholomeu Dias, 1482-88' by Ernst Georg Ravenstein (ff 350-365) and Map illustrating the voyage (f 402)
- 'The Oases of the Mudirieh of Assyut' by A R Guest (ff 365-368)
- 'The Danish East Greenland Expedition in 1900' by Lieutenant Georg Carl Amdrup (ff 368-370)
- 'On the Afghan Frontier: A Reconnaissance in Shugnan' communicated by Dr A Marcoff (ff 370-377).
Other items:
- The Monthly Record (ff 377-383)
- Correspondence (ff 383-384)
- Meetings of the Royal Geographical Society, Session 1900-1901 (f 384)
- Geographical Literature of the Month (ff 384-391)
- New Maps (ff 391-393).
The journal features advertisements at the front and rear.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (111 folios)
- Written in
- English in Latin script View the complete information for this record
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- Mss Eur F111/393, ff 327-440
- Title
- The Geographical Journal(Journal of the Royal Geographical Society): Volume XVI, No. 6
- Pages
- 328r:439v
- Author
- The Geographical Journal xx Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London xx Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography
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- Mss Eur F111/393, ff 327-440
- Title
- The Geographical Journal(Journal of the Royal Geographical Society): Volume XVI, No. 6
- Pages
- 337v:350r
- Author
- Smith, Arthur Donaldson
- Copyright
- ©Royal Geographical Society
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- Creative Commons Non-Commercial Licence