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The Geographical Journal (Journal of the Royal Geographical Society): Volume XVI, No. 6 [343v] (39/232)
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.
secret can only be solved by a study of the changes that occurred in
the northern trade winds. Hardly had we left our camp of January
Id before we began to see the natives preparing for a spring rain,
and a spring rain dependent upon the monsoon winds from the south,
which gives life to Uganda and most of the East African Protectorates.
I hus we had arrived at a point where the autumn rains of one country,
dependent on the northern trade winds, would have met the monsoon
rams coming from Madagascar had not these been extremely late in
arriving this year, as they were in reaching India. The famine which
we found to spread all along the upper Xile was dependent upon the
same conditions as the famine in India, and the very low condition of
CEDAR VALLEY.
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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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- ©Royal Geographical Society
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- Reference
- 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