[1]Dr. Wilhelm Junker was born at Moscow in 1846 and died at St. Petersburg in 1892. Between 1873 and 1886 he explored Algeria, Tunis, Lower Egypt, and a considerable part of Central Africa.
[2]Lado is in Central Africa on the White Nile, near Gondokoro, and was founded by General Gordon in 1874.
[3]The Bari are a negro race in the eastern Soudan, and are both agricultural and pastoral.
[4]Termites are white ants which grow to a very large size in Africa.
[5]The native name of the sweet potato.
[6]The statements in the “Life of Gordon” in this series of “Life Stories” are at variance with this. According to the former, Lieutenant Wilson left Khartoum by steamer to urge haste upon General Wolseley, who was coming to the rescue, but his vessel was wrecked and he was murdered by natives. The steamers which came in sight of Khartoum that morning and found it in possession of the Mahdi were bringing a part of the rescuing force, but finding it was too late, returned. As the German author’s statements in his “Life of Gordon” are confirmed by Sir William Butler, in his well-known “Life,” preference should be given to it.
[7]Verney L. Cameron was a distinguished Anglo-African explorer and the first to cross Africa from east to west.
