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GONDOKORO

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 232 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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government station and trading-See also:place on the See also:east See also:bank of the upper See also:Nile, in 40 54' N., 310 43' E. It is the headquarters of the See also:Northern See also:Province of the (See also:British) See also:Uganda See also:protectorate, is 1070 M. by See also:river S. of See also:Khartum and 350 M. N.N.W. in a See also:direct See also:line of Entebbe on See also:Victoria See also:Nyanza. The station, which is very unhealthy, is at the See also:top of a cliff 25 ft. above the river-level. Besides houses for the See also:civil and military authorities and the lines for the troops, there are a few huts inhabited by See also:Bari, the natives of this See also:part of the Nile. The importance of Gondokoro lies in the fact that it is within a few See also:miles of the limit of navigability of the Nile from Khartum up stream. From this point the See also:journey to Uganda is continued overland. Gondokoro was first visited by Europeans in 1841-1841, when expeditions sent out by Mehemet See also:Ali, See also:pasha of See also:Egypt, ascended the Nile as far as the See also:foot of the rapids above Gondokoro. It soon became an See also:ivory and slave-trading centre. In 1851 an See also:Austrian See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:mission was established here, but it was abandoned in 1859. It was at Gondokoro that J. H.

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Speke and J. A. See also:Grant, descending the Nile after their See also:discovery of its source, met, on the 15th of See also:February 1863, Mr (afterwards See also:Sir) See also:Samuel See also:Baker and his wife who were journeying up the river. In 1871 Baker, then See also:governor-See also:general of the See also:equatorial provinces of Egypt, established a military See also:post at Gondokoro which he named See also:Ismailia, after the then See also:khedive. Baker made this post his headquarters, but See also:Colonel (afterwards General) C. G. See also:Gordon, who succeeded him in 1874, abandoned the station on See also:account of its unhealthy site, removing to Lado. Gondokoro, however, remained a trading-station. It See also:fell into the hands of the Mandists in 1885. After the destruction of the Mandist See also:power in 1898 Gondokoro was occupied by British troops and has since formed the northernmost post on the Nile of the Uganda protectorate (see See also:SUDAN; NILE; and UGANDA).

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