3-053-445 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sir Samuel White Baker, F.R.S., 1873. Engraving from a photograph by Maull and Co. 'The safe return to England of this courageous and skilful pioneer of civilisation in the wilds of Central Africa...has been hailed with general congratulations. Those who are more particularly interested in the advancement of geographical science, which was so greatly promoted by his discoveries concerning the probable source of the Nile and the Lake Albert Nyanza, have shared a common feeling of satisfaction with the philanthropists and the political, social, or commercial reformers who have witnessed his successful efforts, using the authority confided to him by the Khedive of Egypt, to suppress the cruel traffic in slaves among the savage tribes of that hitherto inaccessible region...In 1869, Sir Samuel undertook, at the request of the Viceroy of Egypt, to command an Egyptian military force for the subjugation of the lawless tribes in the White Nile region, and for the suppression of the slave trade. Lady Baker went with him, as before...But the opinion he entertained, while in that part of the world, of a connection between the Lake Albert Nyanza and the Lake Tanganyika, explored by Dr. Livingstone and Mr. Stanley, appears to be quite erroneous'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.