UGANDA AND THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN 1883 

VERY SCARCE BOOK

Durch C.T Wilson & R.W. Felkin

Verlag JG Cotta, Stuttgart, Deutschland 1883

Erste Deutsche Ausgabe

BOOK 1 & 2  in 1 VOLUME

Buch 1 hat 177 Seiten.,

Buch 2 hat 162 Seiten

Dieses Buch ist ein Hardcover mit marmorierten Deckeln und Gold vergoldet Schriftzug auf dem Rücken in einem guten Zustand (einige Kantenverschleiß, wenige Tränen auf Wirbelsäule, leichte Stockflecken nur auf der Vorderseite und letzten Seiten) mit Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen.

LOOSE ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Uganda and the Egyptian Sudan.

By C.T Wilson. &. R.W. Felkin

Publisher  JG Cotta , Stuttgart, Germany   1883

FIRST GERMAN EDITION

ALL TEXT IN GERMAN

BOOK 1 & Book 2 in 1 VOLUME

Book 1 has 177 pages.,

Book 2 has 162 pages

This book is a HARDCOVER with marbled covers and gold gilt lettering on the spine in good condition (some edge wear , few short tears on upper spine , light foxing only on the front endpages and last few pages). Total of 339 pages , map , with black and white illustrations.  

Felkin traveled to Uganda in 1879, its capital, Rubaga he arrived in mid-February, coming from Khartoum. He travelled with the missionary C.T. Wilson to the Bahr el Ghazal region by Dara and Darfur, where they above el-Obeid, Kordofan, came back to the Nile .

CHAPTERS FOR BOOK 1

Zanzibar.

Von Bagamoyo nach Mpwapwa.

Von Ugogo und Iramba nach Ng'uru.

Von Ng'uru über Kagei nach Ukerewe.

Der Aufenthalt in Uganda.

Von Kagei nach Tabora und zurück.

Uganda und die Waganda.

Regierung und Sprache der Wagaiida.

Nach Kagei; Schiffbruch.

Abschied von Uganda.

Von Suakim nach Dufli.

Von Dufli nach Rubaga.

LOOSE ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Zanzibar.

From Bagamoyo to Mpwapwa.

From Ugogo and Iramba to Ng'uru.

From Ng'uru to Kagei and Ukerewe.

Life in Uganda.

From Kagei to Tabora and back.

Uganda and the Waganda.

Government and language of Wagaiida.

Voyage to Kagei and Shipwreck.

Farewell to Uganda.

From Suakim to Dufli.

From Dufli to Rubaga.

CHAPTERS FOR BOOK 2

Rubaga.

Von Rubaga nach Foweira.

Von Foweira nach Lado.

Lado.

Von Lado nach Djur Ghattas.

Von Djur Ghattas nach Dem Idris.

Von Dem Idris nach Dem Soleiman.

Von Dem Suleiman nach. Dara.

Dara und Darfur.

Von Dara nach Obeid und Kordofan.

Von Obeid nach Soakim.

Nachschrift.

LOOSE ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Rubaga. Uganda

From Rubaga to Foweira

From Foweira to Lado .

Lado. Sudan

From Lado to Jur Ghattas .

From Jur Ghatta according to the Idris

Dem Idris according to the Soleiman

Dem Suleiman claimed Dara

Dara and Darfur.

From Dara after Obeid and Kordofan

From Obeid to Soakim  

Postscript

THIS IS THE PREFACE FROM AN ENGLISH EDITION  = In March 1875 the well-known American traveller, Stanley, while staying in Uganda, wrote a letter which, after several narrow escapes, reached England, and was published in the English newspapers in November of that year.

In this letter Stanley spoke of the promising field for missionary labour which Uganda, with its enlightened ruler and intelligent people, afforded, and made an earnest appeal to the English nation to evangelize this place ; giving at the same time a list of articles required as outfit, and stating the probable expense of such an expedition.

Within a few days large donations were offered to the Church Missionary Society if they would commence a Mission in Mtesa's country. The Society accepted the responsibility,  and asked for volunteers to go out to the Victoria Lake to establish two stations, one in Karagwe, the other in Uganda.

A well-equipped party, under the direction of Lieut. G. Shergold Smith, R.N., proceeded to Africa in the Spring of 1876. In May 1877 four men were on the southern shores of the Victoria Nyanza ; one of whom, Dr. Smith, died there.

Two, Lieut. Smith and Mr. Wilson, crossed the Lake, and were cordially received by Mtesa on July 2nd. Subsequently the fourth, Mr. O'Neill, and Lieut. Smith were killed by the natives of Ukerewe, a large island in the Lake, and Mr. Wilson was thus left alone.

 He was afterwards joined by Mr. Mackay, one of the original party, and in the meanwhile a party by the Nile route had been sent to his aid. This consisted of the Eev. G. Litchfield, Mr. C. W. Pearson, Mr. E. W. Felkin, medical missionary, and Mr. J. W. Hall.

The latter was taken ill at Suakim, and obliged to return to England, but the other three reached Uganda safely in February 1879.

A few months later the Kev. C. T. Wilson and Mr. Felkin started for Europe, to take charge of three ambassadors whom Mtesa, king of Uganda, was anxious to send to England to see her Majesty the Queen.

 The following pages must not be supposed to be an account of the Mission, but simply as intended to give a description of the countries visited, and especially of Uganda, where Mr. Wilson resided for two years, and the work of the Mission will only be alluded to so far as is necessary for the connection of the narrative.

The Committee of the Church Missionary Society while sanctioning the publication of this book, are not in any way responsible for it. At the same time it will be borne in mind, that the authors were agents of the Society ;

and the work, of which the results are embodied in the following pages, was undertaken in addition to their ordinary labours as Missionaries, and must be judged accordingly. As will be seen from the title-page, the book is  the joint work of the Rev. C. T. Wilson and Mr. E.W. Felkin.

The first part of it is by the former, with the exception of the chapters on the manners and customs of the Waganda, in which Mr. Felkin has given some help. The second part, in like manner, is the work of Mr. Felkin, Mr. Wilson having contributed a few suggestions.

 It is not intended to claim literary merit for the following pages ; the desire of the authors being to state as simply and truthfully as possible what they observed in a part of the earth till now little known ; but which, given good roads and a just and unambitious government, will offer a field for religious and mercantile enterprises of the utmost importance to the human race.     August 24th, 1881.

MORE ABOUT  Robert William Felkin (13 March 1853 – 28 December 1926) was a medical missionary and explorer, a ceremonial magician and member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a prolific author on Uganda and Central Africa, and early anthropologist, with an interest in ethno-medicine and tropical diseases.

He studied esotericism , Theosophy ,Tao te ching and the Bhagavad Gita and joined the Theosophical Society in Edinburgh in 1886, and eventually joined John William Brodie-Innes' Amen-Ra Temple of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn on 1894. 

In 1903 he then formed the magically-inclined Order of the Stella Matutina a new Order based on the original Order of the Golden Dawn, with its Hermes Temple in Bristol, UK .

 The poet W.B. Yeats joined the Stella Matutina and was a member for 20 years. Felkin’s main temple in London was called Amoun. , later, Whare Ra (or more correctly, the Smaragdum Thallasses Temple)  in Havelock North, New Zealand in 1912. He was also involved with Freemasonry and Rosicrucianism met Rudolf Steiner and after their meeting incorporated elements of Anthroposophy into his practice, including homeopathy.

Felkin also become involved in the Bahá'í Faith, through his meeting with `Abdu'l-Bahá in London in 1911. The fullest account of his life is found in A Wayfaring Man, a fictionalised biography written by his second wife Harriet and published in serial form between 1936 and 1949.

Medical missionary in Africa ====  Robert Jr was educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School, where he met the explorer David Livingstone, who inspired him to become a medical missionary.

He worked for a period in Chemnitz, Germany, after his schooling, where his uncle Henry Felkin lived, and became fluent in the language. In about 1876 he began studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh.

In 1878, as yet unlicensed, he joined a mission led by the Church Missionary Society to Central Africa.

He travelled up the Nile to Khartoum, where he met General Gordon, and then on through what was then wild and unmapped country to the African Great Lakes. Eventually he spent two years in Africa, and became personal physician to King M’tesa, who had previously tried to kill him.

In Zanzibar, he actively campaigned against the slave trade.  He published several articles on tropical medicine and childbirth in medical journals, and also wrote about Uganda and the Egyptian Soudan (1882, with Rev. C.T. Wilson), Egypt Present and To Come (1885), Uganda (1886), and other African works.

In 1881, he returned to Edinburgh when his health deteriorated to complete his medical studies (LRCP, LRCS, Ed, 1884).

While still a medical student he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a member of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and a corresponding Fellow of the Berlin Anthropological Society.

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