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    Notes on the Game Birds of Kenya and Uganda.
    Notes on the game birds of Kenya and Uganda     Notes on the Game Birds of Kenya and Uganda is by Sir Frederick John Jackson (1860-1929), a British colonial administrator who spent many years in East Africa. Jackson first went to the region in 1884. He held a number of posts in the East Africa Protectorate (later Kenya), and in 1911 was appointed governor of Uganda, a post in which he served until his...
    • Contributor: Jackson, Frederick John
    • Date: 1926-01-01
    • Resource: - 308 pages

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    Kenya, Uganda and Zanzibar. "Appendix (p. [97]-100): Extracts from treaties, Anglo-German agreement, October 29, November 1, 1886, Anglo-German agreement, July 1, 1890, articles I, II, XI, XII." "Authorities": p. [108]-110. "Authorities": p. [108]-110.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
    • Date: 1920-01-01
    • Resource: - 126 pages

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    Cairo to Kisumu; Cairo to Kisumu: Egypt-Sudan-Kenya Colony was the fifth in a series of books known as Carpenter's World Travels, written by Frank G. Carpenter (1855-1924) in the 1920s and published by the Garden City, New York, firm of Doubleday, Page & Company. Carpenter was an American author of books on travel and world geography whose geographical readers were popular in American schools in the early...
    • Contributor: Carpenter, Frank G. (Frank George)
    • Date: 1923
  • Periodical
    Acts for 1949 This book is a compilation of the laws and regulations promulgated by the East Africa High Commission for 1949. The laws were issued in the name of, or on behalf of, His Majesty King George VI of Great Britain, and reflected the colonial status of East Africa-present-day Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda-at the time. The laws presented include the Interpretation Act, dealing with the interpretation...
    • Contributor: East Africa High Commission
    • Date: 1949-01-01
    • Resource: - 84 pages

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    Men and Creatures in Uganda. This book is a first-hand account of a trip taken by John Bland-Sutton (1855--1936) in 1910 from the port of Mombasa (present-day Kenya) to Uganda and back to the coast via the Rift Valley of Ethiopia and Kenya. Bland-Sutton was a distinguished British surgeon who did pioneering work in several areas of medicine. His interest in the natural sciences is reflected in his careful...
    • Contributor: Bland-Sutton, John, Sir
    • Date: 1933-01-01
    • Resource: - 260 pages

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    Budadiri, Uganda.
    Budadiri: Uganda 1: 50,000     This map of the Budadiri region of Uganda was issued by the Uganda Department of Lands and Surveys in 1963 and is based on field survey data and on aerial surveys carried out in 1959 and 1960. Budadiri is in the eastern part of the country, on the border with Kenya. The region encompasses the western foothills of Mount Elgon, an extinct volcano with...
    • Contributor: Fairey Air Surveys Limited - Great Britain. Royal Air Force - Great Britain. Overseas Surveys Directorate - Uganda. Department of Lands and Surveys - Uganda
    • Date: 1963-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Sigulu, Uganda.
    Sigulu: Uganda 1: 50,000     This map of the Sigulu region, in Namayingo District in eastern Uganda, was issued by the Lands and Surveys Department of Uganda in 1963, and is based on aerial surveys carried out in 1948, 1952, and 1960, and on field survey data. The map shows the heavily forested islands of Bugana and Sigulu in the northeastern part of Lake Victoria and the adjacent coastal...
    • Contributor: Fairey Air Surveys Limited - Great Britain. Royal Air Force - Great Britain. Overseas Surveys Directorate - Uganda. Department of Lands and Surveys - Uganda
    • Date: 1963-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    The Case against Kikuyu: A Study in Vital Principles. Frank Weston (1871--1924) was an Anglican clergyman who served as bishop of Zanzibar (present-day Tanzania) in 1908--24. He was a staunch Anglo-Catholic, meaning he belonged to the wing of the Anglican Church that emphasized the church's continuity with its Roman Catholic heritage rather than its Protestant identity. Weston became involved in the bitter Kikuyu controversy of 1913--14, which arose from a 1913 conference in...
    • Contributor: Weston, Frank
    • Date: 1914-01-01
    • Resource: - 64 pages

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    Eighteen Years in Uganda and East Africa. Eighteen Years in Uganda and East Africa is an account in two volumes by Alfred R. Tucker (1849--1914) of his work as Anglican bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa in 1890--99 and as the first bishop of Uganda from 1899 until 1908, when the book was published. Volume 1 includes a review of the early history of European involvement in East Africa, from the arrival...
    • Contributor: Tucker, Alfred Robert
    • Date: 1908-01-01
  • Map
    Masiwa, Uganda.
    Masiwa: Uganda 1: 50,000     This map of Sagitu, Lolui, and Masiwa islands in Lake Victoria was issued in 1963 and copyrighted by the government of newly independent Uganda. The map was compiled and drawn by the British Directorate of Overseas Surveys in cooperation with the government of the Uganda Protectorate. It is based on aerial photography carried out in 1952 and 1960, on a British Admiralty chart from...
    • Contributor: Fairey Air Surveys Limited - Great Britain. Royal Air Force - Uganda. Department of Lands and Surveys - Great Britain. Ordnance Survey - Great Britain. Overseas Surveys Directorate - Uganda
    • Date: 1963-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Steps towards Reunion: A Statement for the Consultative Committee. At a conference in Kikuyu (present-day Kenya) in 1913, British missionaries from the Anglican, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches agreed to a Scheme of Federation to help them compete with non-Christian groups in Africa and to avoid transplanting the "unhappy divisions" among the churches of Britain to the mission field. The conference gave rise to a bitter controversy within the Anglican Church. Frank Weston, bishop...
    • Contributor: Peel, William George - Willis, John Jamieson
    • Date: 1914-01-01
    • Resource: - 72 pages

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    Ecclesia Anglicana: For What Does She Stand?. Frank Weston (1871--1924) was an Anglican clergyman who served as bishop of Zanzibar (present-day Tanzania) in 1908--24. He was a staunch Anglo-Catholic, meaning he belonged to the wing of the Anglican Church that emphasized the church's continuity with its Roman Catholic heritage rather than its Protestant identity. Weston became involved in the bitter Kikuyu controversy of 1913--14, which arose from a 1913 conference in...
    • Contributor: Weston, Frank
    • Date: 1913-01-01
    • Resource: - 24 pages

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    Kikuyu. At a conference in Kikuyu (present-day Kenya) in 1913, British missionaries from the Anglican, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches agreed to a Scheme of Federation to help them compete with non-Christian groups in Africa and to avoid transplanting the "unhappy divisions" among the churches of Britain to the mission field. The conference gave rise to a bitter controversy within the Anglican Church. Frank Weston, bishop...
    • Contributor: Davidson, Randall Thomas
    • Date: 1915-01-01
    • Resource: - 73 pages

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    Tucker of Uganda: Artist and Apostle, 1849-1914. Tucker of Uganda: Artist and Apostle, 1849-1914 is a biography of Alfred R. Tucker, the first bishop of Uganda. The book traces Tucker's early life in England, his training and success as an artist, his studies at Oxford, his work as an Anglican clergyman, and his call to go to Africa as a missionary. Consecrated bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa by the Archbishop of...
    • Contributor: Davidson, Randall Thomas - Shepherd, A. P. (Arthur Pearce)
    • Date: 1929-01-01
    • Resource: - 218 pages

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    Natal, Rhodesien, Britisch-Ostafrika In Fraktur
    • Contributor: Evans, Maurice S. (Maurice Smethurst)
    • Date: 1913-01-01
    • Resource: - 177 pages

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    Three Years of War in East Africa.
    Three years of war in East Africa     Three Years of War in East Africa is an account of part of the East African Campaign during World War I, written by Captain Angus Buchanan, a British army officer who served with the 25th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, also known as the Frontiersmen, and who participated in the campaign from May 1915 through October 1917. Buchanan describes a march of more than 1,370 kilometers...
    • Contributor: Cranworth, Bertram Francis Gurdon, Baron - Buchanan, Angus - Hazell, Watson & Viney
    • Date: 1919-01-01
    • Resource: - 163 pages

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    East Africa and Uganda, or, Our Last Land. John Cathcart Wason (1848--1921) was a Scottish-born farmer and politician who as a young man immigrated to New Zealand, where he acquired large landholdings and was elected to the national parliament. In 1900 he sold his New Zealand estate and returned to Scotland, where he was elected to the British parliament. Wason took an interest in colonial affairs and was particularly concerned about what...
    • Contributor: Wason, John Cathcart
    • Date: 1905-01-01
    • Resource: - 178 pages

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    Jinja, Uganda, East Africa.
    Jinja     This map shows Jinja, a district in eastern Uganda located on the northern shores of Lake Victoria. Jinja is also the name of the largest town in Jinja District, and is considered the capital of the Kingdom of Busoga. The town is located on the shore of Lake Victoria, just east of the point at which the Nile River is seen exiting the lake...
    • Contributor: Uganda. Department of Lands and Surveys
    • Date: 1969-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Bubeke, Uganda. This map of Bubeke, Kalangala District, Uganda Protectorate (present-day Uganda) was compiled and drawn by the Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Department of Technical Cooperation in the British government and issued in 1960 by the Uganda Department of Lands and Surveys. It is based on aerial photography and field survey data. Bubeke Island is located in the western part of Lake Victoria, south of Entebbe....
    • Contributor: Uganda. Department of Lands and Surveys - Great Britain - Great Britain. Overseas Surveys Directorate
    • Date: 1960-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Map
    Map of Uganda Protectorate. This map of Uganda during the period of British colonial rule was published in 1935 by the Department of Surveys of the Uganda Protectorate. Shown are international, intercolonial, provincial, district, and county boundaries; roads of different capacities; bush paths; telegraph lines; railways; Protestant and Roman Catholic missions; ancient sites; and physical features. The latter include rivers, lakes, elevation above sea level, and "permanent watering...
    • Contributor: Mathews, D. O. - Uganda. Survey Department - Watts, B. T.
    • Date: 1935-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Deutsch-Ostafrika als siedelungsgebiet für Europäer, unter berücksichtigung Britisch-Ostafrikas und Nyassalands. As imperial Germany began creating an overseas empire in the late 19th century, many influential Germans sought to emulate the example of Great Britain, which had built its large and powerful empire in part by promoting the settlement of immigrants from the British Isles to British-controlled territories in other parts of the world, including East Africa and South Africa. Germany declared a protectorate in...
    • Contributor: Lindequist, Friedrick Von - Lindequist, Friedrich Von
    • Date: 1912-01-01
    • Resource: - 136 pages
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    The Victoria Nyanza; the land, the races and their customs, with specimens of some of the dialects, Lake Victoria (in the Bantu language, Victoria Nyanza), is the largest lake in Africa and the second largest body of fresh water in the world, surpassed only by Lake Superior in North America. The lake is crossed by the equator, and is the chief source of the Nile River. The first European to reach the lake was the British explorer John Hanning Speke in...
    • Contributor: Nesbitt, H. A. (Henry Arthur) - Kollmann, Karl Paul - Kollmann, Paul
    • Date: 1899
    • Resource: - 278 pages
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    A Drawing (with a Western Perspective) of the East Indies from the Promontory of Good Hope to Cape Comorin.
    Occidentalior Tractus Indiarum Orientalium a Promontorio Bonae Spei ad C. Comorin     This portolan map by the Dutch engraver, publisher, and map seller Frederick de Wit (1629 or 1630-1706) shows the Indian Ocean from the Cape of Good Hope to the west coast of India (Malabar). The map was first published in 1675 and was reprinted in 1715. It is oriented with east at the top. Kishm is placed in the present-day United Arab Emirates (UAE)...
    • Contributor: Wit, Frederik De
    • Date: 1675-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    In Uganda for Christ: The Life Story of the Rev. John Samuel Callis B.A., of the Church Missionary Society. In Uganda for Christ is a biography of the Reverend John Samuel Callis (1870--97), an early Christian missionary to Uganda. Callis was born in England and graduated from Saint Catharine's College, Cambridge. Moved by the death of his eldest sister, he decided to dedicate his life to the church. After studying theology and working among the poor in London, he was ordained an Anglican...
    • Contributor: Pierpoint, Richard Deare
    • Date: 1898-01-01
    • Resource: - 233 pages
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    Uganda's Katikiro in England. Uganda's Katikiro in England is the official account of the visit of the katikiro (prime minister) of Buganda, Apolo Kagwa (circa 1864--1927), in 1902 to participate in the coronation of King Edward VII, who ascended to the British throne following the death of his mother, Queen Victoria, in early 1901. The grandson of a Ugandan chief, Apolo served as a page in the court...
    • Contributor: Mukasa, Ham - Millar, Ernest - Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir
    • Date: 1904-01-01
    • Resource: - 327 pages