lesbianism, ref1
de Lesseps, Ferdinand, ref1
statue, ref1, ref2
and the Statue of Liberty, ref1
and the Suez Canal, ref1, ref2
lightbulb, invention of, ref1
Linant Bey (Louis Linant), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Livingstone, David
Burton’s influence, ref1
and crocodile bird, ref1
education, ref1
on Lualaba, ref1
looting
2011 revolution, ref1, ref2, ref3
after Theodore’s death, ref1
Louis IX of France, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Lugard, Frederick, ref1, ref2
Luqman, and Aesop, ref1
Luta Nzige
meaning, ref1
see also Lake Albert
Maadi (Cairo suburb), ref1, ref2
‘Maadi man’, ref1
Maadi (suburb of Cairo), ref1
‘the Mahdi’, ref1, ref2
bodily remains, ref1
and Gordon, ref1, ref2, ref3
Maimoides, On Sexual Intercourse, ref1
malaria, on the Nile, ref1
Mallowan, Max, ref1, ref2
Mamluks, ref1, ref2, ref3
assassins and Abbas, ref1
choice of sultan, ref1
defeat by Napoleon, ref1, ref2
massacres, ref1, ref2
and Muhammad Ali, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
and Saladin, ref1
see also Baiburs
map-making, Gordon, ref1
maps, ref1
Ptolemy’s map of the Nile, ref1, ref2, ref3
Marchand, Jean-Baptiste, ref1
and the British, ref1, ref2
Marchand expedition, ref1, ref2, ref3
Mark Antony, ref1
burial with Cleopatra, ref1
children by Cleopatra, ref1, ref2, ref3
and Cleopatra, ref1, ref2, ref3
death, ref1
and Herod, ref1
marriage, ancient Nile, ref1
Mary (mother of Jesus), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
visions of the Virgin Mary, ref1
Masindi, battle of, ref1
Maspero, Gaston, on Seqenenre’s mummy, ref1, ref2
mausoleum, Cleopatra’s, ref1
Maxim gun, ref1, ref2
Maxim, Hiram, ref1
measurement, Nile, ref1
Mediterranean, ref1
evaporation, ref1
and rising sea levels, ref1
and the Sahara Desert, ref1
as Tethys Sea, ref1
Memphis, ref1
abandoned by Bedouin, ref1
disappearance, ref1, ref2, ref3
Menes (first ruler of First Dynasty), ref1
as builder of Memphis, ref1
milk, human, benefits, ancient Egypt, ref1
Milnes, Richard Monckton, ref1, ref2
and Burton, ref1
mimicry, elephants, ref1
Mitterand, François, ref1, ref2, ref3
Moeris, Lake see Qarun, Lake
Monbuttoo, cannibalism, ref1
Mongols
and Baiburs, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
and Mamluks, ref1, ref2
Morsi, Muhammad, ref1
Moses, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
exodus from Egypt, ref1
origin of name, ref1
see also plagues
Mougel Bey (Charles Mougel), ref1, ref2, ref3
Mountains of the Moon see Ruwenzori
Mubarak, Hosny, ref1, ref2, ref3
assassination attempts, ref1
at Sadat’s assassination, ref1, ref2, ref3
mugging, ref1, ref2
Muhammad Ali (originally Albanian tax collector; subsequently governor of Egypt), ref1, ref2
building of Nile barrage, ref1, ref2
death in 1849, ref1
influence of French, ref1
massacre of the Mamluks, ref1, ref2, ref3
and modernity, ref1
and Napoleon, ref1
plan to destroy the Pyramids, ref1
and sex tourism, ref1
story, ref1
Muhammad the marksman see Farag, Muhammad
mummification, ref1
Pharaohs, ref1, ref2, ref3
and Pyramids, ref1
Munkidh, bridge of, ref1
Murchison Falls, ref1, ref2
Murchison, Sir Roderick, ref1
Murray, Henry, as Baker’s patron, ref1
Muslim Brotherhood, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Muslim law, and children of slaves, ref1
Muslims
Jesus and, ref1
and Portuguese, ref1
rule by, preferred by Jews, ref1
visions of Virgin Mary, ref1
see also Islam
mutilation, to avoid military service, ref1
Napoleon Bonaparte, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
and battles of the Nile, ref1, ref2
book reading, ref1, ref2
as conqueror of Egypt, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
defeat of Mamluks, ref1, ref2
fear of poisoning, ref1
in France, ref1
and Josephine’s unfaithfulness, ref1
and Muhammad Ali, ref1
and Pauline Fourès, ref1, ref2
search for mistress, ref1, ref2
and the Suez Canal, ref1
wish to join Royal Navy, ref1
Nasser, Gamel Abdul, ref1
and Aswan dam, ref1, ref2
visions of the Virgin, ref1
see also Lake Nasser
Nasser, Lake, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Nelson, Admiral Horatio
at Battle of the Nile, ref1
at second battle of the Nile, ref1
Niam Niam, cannibalism, ref1, ref2
Nightingale, Florence, ref1, ref2, ref3
Nile delta see Delta
Nile river
author’s journeys, ref1, ref2
character, ref1
as clean river, ref1
and control of Africa, ref1
controlling, ref1, ref2
Marchand’s expedition to upper Nile, ref1, ref2
measurement, ref1
see also Blue Nile; change and the Nile; sources of the Nile; White Nile
Nilometer, ref1
nursing
disapproval of, ref1
Florence Nightingale, ref1
Octavian see Caesar Augustus
Octavian (later Caesar Augustus), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
and Antony and Cleopatra’s children, ref1
and Cleopatra, ref1
as emperor, ref1
Old Cairo, ref1
Omdurman, battle of, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
oral traditions see tradition(s)
Osiris’ penis, ref1
Oswell, William (big-game hunter), ref1
Owen Falls
dam, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
opening, ref1
Oxyrhynchus, ref1
Páez, Pedro, ref1, ref2
papyrus rafts, ref1, ref2, ref3
penis
Herod’s, ref1
Osiris’, ref1
Peter the Bigot/Magistrate, ref1
Peter Canoe, Lieutenant, ref1, ref2
Petherick, John, ref1, ref2
and cannibalism, ref1
exploration, ref1
in gum-arabic business, ref1
as ivory trade, ref1
and slavery, ref1
threatened execution, ref1
as trader, ref1, ref2
and Werne, ref1
pharaoh, identity, and Israelites’ exodus, ref1, ref2
photographs
of Flaubert, ref1, ref2, ref3
of monuments of the Nile, ref1
of visions of Virgin Mary, ref1
plagues, ten plagues of Egypt, ref1, ref2
Plowden, Walter, ref
1
poisons/poisoning, ref1, ref2
alcohol as poison, ref1
antidotes, ref1
Baker’s, ref1
Cleopatra’s poisons, ref1, ref2, ref3
Defterdar, ref1
Mamluk poison tasters, ref1
poison tasters, ref1
Pompey, ref1
Portuguese explorers
16th century, ref1
scurvy, ref1
Van der Post, Laurens, ref1, ref2
Prester John, ref1, ref2, ref3
and Ethiopia, ref1
Prompt, Victor, ref1
Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemeus)
Almagest, ref1
map of the Nile, ref1, ref2, ref3
pygmies (Twa tribe), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Pyramid of Cheops, ref1
Pyramids, ref1, ref2, ref3
building of, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
and mummification, ref1
threat of demolition, ref1, ref2, ref3
pyramids of Memphis, ref1, ref2
pyramids of Meroe, ref1
Qarun, Lake see Lake Qarun
Qarun, Lake (Lake Moeris), ref1, ref2
crocs in, ref1
salination problems, ref1
Qasr el-Sagha, and Schweinfurth, ref1
rafting
beach raft, ref1, ref2
Bujagali falls, ref1
and damnosum fly, ref1
and hippos, ref1
on the Nile, ref1, ref2
see also papyrus rafts
railways
Kitchener’s to conquer Sudan, ref1, ref2
Stephenson’s in 1853, ref1
wooden, French, ref1
Ranchoup, Henry de, ref1
Rashid see Rosetta
Rassam, Hormuzd, ref1, ref2
and Theodore of Ethiopia, ref1
Red Nile, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
birth, ref1
and Egypt, ref1
history makers, ref1
reason for name, ref1, ref2
source, ref1
swimming, ref1
Red Sea, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
canals linking Nile to, ref1, ref2
as Reed Sea, ref1
Rehab (Egyptian girl), ref1
religions, ref1
Revolution of 1952, ref1, ref2
Revolution of 2011, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
in 2013, ref1
Rift Valley, ref1, ref2
Ripon Falls, ref1, ref2
River War (1898), ref1, ref2
Rizh, Wagih (photographer), ref1
Roland (artist and author’s friend), ref1, ref2, ref3
Rommel, Field Marshall Erwin, ref1, ref2
spies in Cairo, ref1
Rosetta (Rashid), ref1
dam, ref1
Nile’s entrance to sea, ref1
Rosetta Stone, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
discovered by French, ref1
and Nelson, ref1
taken by British, ref1
and Thomas Young, ref1
Ruwenzori (Mountains of the Moon), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
on map, ref1
as source of Albert Nile, ref1, ref2
Sabla Wangel, Queen, ref1
Sadat, Anwar (né el-Sadaty), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
assassination, ref1
as assassin’s pimp, ref1
and Israel, ref1
Sadat canal, ref1
Said, Muhammad, ref1
Saladin, Yusuf (Joseph), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Salafis, ref1, ref2
salination/salt
Lake Albert, ref1
Lake Qarun, ref1, ref2
lakes in the desert, ref1
Nile, ref1, ref2
Samuel Baker School, Gulu, Uganda, ref1, ref2
Sandow, Eugen, ref1
Sandstede, Hans, ref1
‘Sarah’ (digger), ref1
Sass, Florenz (later Florence Baker q.v.), ref1, ref2, ref3
savants, French, brought to Egypt with Napoleon, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Scheherazade, ref1
schistosomiasis see bilharzia
Schweinfurth, Georg August, ref1, ref2, ref3
on cannibalism, ref1
on slavery, ref1, ref2
Scott-Moncrieff, Colonel Colin, ref1
Scottish explorers, ref1
Seqenenre Tao II, Pharaoh, ref1
mummy, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
sex
abstinence, ref1
acts in public, ref1
almé, ref1
in ancient Egypt, ref1
Egypt’s courtesan culture, ref1, ref2, ref3
Eppler’s fantasies, ref1
Maimonides on, ref1
Turin Erotic Papyrus, ref1
under Muhammad Ali’s rule, ref1
see also gender equality; homosexual love
sex tourism, ref1, ref2
Flaubert, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Shajarat al-Durr, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
choice of new husband, ref1
with dead husband, ref1
death, ref1
Shrapnel, Henry, ref1
silt, ref1
as antimalarial, ref1
and Aswan dam, ref1, ref2
and fertility of land, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
flood-borne, life-giving, ref1
Lake Nasser and siltation, ref1
Sitt al-Mulk (the Red Queen), ref1
slaves/slavery, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Baker’s attempt to abolish slavery, ref1, ref2
and the British, ref1
Elephantine island, ref1
enslavement of Israelites by Egyptians, ref1, ref2
‘Ethiopians’ as slaves, ref1
Gordon’s attempt to abolish slavery, ref1, ref2, ref3
Mamluks as slaves, ref1
modern, ref1
slave-trader armies, ref1
Theodore’s attempt to abolish slavery, ref1
as wealth of Africa, ref1
white, ref1
on the White Nile, ref1
see also corvée; Luqman; Mamluks
sleeping sickness, ref1
‘slim’ see AIDS
smallpox, ref1
Sobat river, ref1, ref2
sources of the Nile, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
Alexander the Great’s search, ref1
ancient knowledge, ref1
and Baker, ref1
Bruce’s lies, ref1
and Burton, ref1, ref2
debate between Burton and Speke, ref1
Duke of Abruzzi and, ref1
and Ethiopia, ref1
Jinja, ref1
Kagera, ref1
Muhammad Ali’s expedition, ref1
Pedro Páez’s discovery, ref1, ref2, ref3
Petherick’s discovery, ref1
pygmies at, ref1
and Sadat, ref1
and Speke, ref1, ref2, ref3
and Stanley, ref1
stories, ref1
see also Blue Nile; Nile River; White Nile
Speke, John ‘Jack’ Hanning, ref1
at Ripon Falls, ref1, ref2
and Burton, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
with Burton from Zanzibar, ref1
deafness, ref1
death, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
and Dinka, ref1
expedition with Grant, ref1
lack of racism, ref1
and Lake Albert, ref1
measurement of fat ladies, ref1
meeting with Bakers, ref1
Nile as mountain stream, ref1
and Petherick, ref1
and source of the Nile, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
debate with Burton, ref1, ref2, ref3
Sphinx, ref1
Stanley, Henry Morton, ref1, ref2, ref3
debt to Burton, ref1, ref
2
‘discovery’ of pygmies, ref1
and Emin Pasha, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
as explorer, ref1
and Galton, ref1
In Darkest Africa, ref1
life after exploration, ref1
and Marchand, ref1
and Mountains of the Moon (Ruwenzori), ref1, ref2, ref3
search for Livingstone, ref1
Statue of Liberty, New York, ref1
Stephenson, George, ref1
stories, ref1, ref2, ref3
earliest Egyptian stories, ref1
hatred of stories and Asperger’s syndrome, ref1
modern revival of storytelling, ref1
and the Nile, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Nile as river of stories, ref1
Sudan
army coup, ref1
and the Aswan dam, ref1, ref2
and the British, ref1
Cameron and, ref1
civil war, ref1
damnosum in, ref1
and Gordon, ref1, ref2, ref3
and Kitchener, ref1
and the Maxim gun, ref1
Nile in, ref1
evaporation, ref1
North vs. South, ref1
Petherick in, ref1
slaughter of Sudanese in River War, ref1
slavery, ref1
South Sudan, independence in 2011, ref1
Southern Sudan, ref1
tribes conquered by Muhammad Ali, ref1, ref2
see also Khartoum; Sudd
Sudd swamp, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
canal, ref1
diseases, ref1
Petherick in, ref1
see also Dinka
Suez Canal, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
aborted plans, ref1
British involvement, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
French involvement, ref1, ref2, ref3
as great engineering feat, ref1
Nasser and, ref1, ref2, ref3
opening, ref1, ref2
in WW2, ref1
Sufis, ref1, ref2
surfing the Nile, ref1
Surkhab (Ibn al-Haytham’s student), ref1
swords
Baggara, ref1
disadvantages, ref1, ref2, ref3
the Mahdi’s sword, ref1
Roman, ref1
Syene see Aswan
Tahrir Square, ref1
Tana, Lake, ref1, ref2, ref3
American involvement, ref1
Bruce at, ref1
dam project, ref1, ref2
Theodore’s base, ref1, ref2
Wingate and, ref1
Tanganyika, Lake, ref1
Emin Pasha and, ref1
as source of the Nile according to Burton, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Speke and Burton’s investigation, ref1
Stanley’s circumnavigation, ref1
terrorism, number killed, ref1
Tethys Sea see Mediterranean
Theodore of Ethiopia, ref1, ref2 (passim)
Thesiger, Wilfred, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Thoth, Book of, ref1
The Thousand and One Nights, ref1, ref2
Tis Abay, ref1
tobacco, ref1
Toshka project, ref1
tradition(s)
as cause of death, ref1, ref2
and change, ref1
Egyptian Christianity, ref1, ref2, ref3
oral, geography of Africa and the Nile, ref1
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