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The Geographical Journal (Journal of the Royal Geographical Society): Volume XVI, No. 6 [342v] (37/232)
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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610
AN EXPEDITION BETWEEN LAKE RUDOLF AND THE NILE.
inclined to fight. From their long parallel-sided shields, their Masai-
like spears, and their tall athletic build, I made them out to be a branch
of the Turkana. A lot of about twenty warriors attacked two of my
camel-men one day, who were loitering behind the caravan with my sheep
and goats, and were only driven off by my boys firing at them. This
was the only time on the journey that the natives attempted hostilities.
The people here call themselves Mushas, but I could not get any
vocabulary from them, as I only managed to get speech with them on
HtBSU ON THE K1VEK OMO.
two or three occasions before I wa s abovt to quit their country.
We kept pretty much to the valleys, which were at an elevation of
1.00 feet as we progressed through their country for seven Ion-
marches, occasionally going over some mountain passes, where stretches
of open upland meadows and grass-covered hills made me feel that I
usul t WCa i' mS t 'r eeds ;" stead of kb ’‘ ki - such places there were
usually a good number of small villages, but occasionally, where the
hush was very thick, we sometimes did not see a sign of any nhabitants
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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
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- ©Royal Geographical Society
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- Creative Commons Non-Commercial Licence