Victoria affluent.  The Bauyno tribes now prevented his intended advance to the Albert Nyanza.  Baker, however, had the good fortune to be well received by the chieftain Kamurasi, and, as he was at this moment suffering from a severe attack of fever, the friendliness of this Central African chieftain was probably the means of saving his life.  The king graciously received Baker’s present of a double-barrelled gun, and then sent him onward with two guides and three hundred men.  The party now managed to push their way to the shores of the Albert Nyanza.  They first arrived at a place called Mbakovia, situated near the south-east coast, and on March 16, 1864, they saw for the first time the great lake itself, which they now named the Albert Nyanza.  After a short stay at Mbakovia, they proceeded along the coast of the lake until they reached Magungo, where the Victoria branch of the Nile flows into the Albert Nyanza.  Continuing the journey up the source of the Victoria Nile, they discovered the Murchison Falls.  When they set out for the Karuma Falls the porters deserted, and after many desperate adventures they at length returned to Khartum in May, 1865.  Baker then went on to Berber, and crossed the desert to Suakin on the Red Sea.  He returned to England late in the year 1865, and was received with honour and decorated by the queen with a well-earned knighthood.

In the year 1869 Baker entered the service of the Egyptian government, and was commissioned by the viceroy to subdue the regions of Equatorial Africa, and annex them to the Egyptian Empire.  To succeed in this enterprise he waged many a war with African tribes like the Boni.  On several occasions these conflicts had been forced upon him; on other occasions Baker Pasha was the aggressor, owing to his fixed determination to extend on all sides the limits of the Egyptian Sudan.  With all the rulers, however, who treated him well, he remained on terms of loyalty and friendship; and, in time, he inspired them with respect for his fairness and liberality.  Baker Pasha scattered the slave-traders on all sides, and, for the time being, effectually broke up their power.  The slave-traders of the Sudan were of Arab nationality, and were in the habit of advancing farther, year by year, upon the villages of the defenceless Africans, and spreading their ravages into the heart of Africa.  They always attacked the less warlike tribes, and, upon breaking into a negro settlement, would carry off the whole population, except the aged or sick.  The slaves were herded together in vast numbers by help of logs of wood sawn in two, with holes cut large enough to enclose the neck of a slave, and the two sides of the log afterwards securely fastened again, thereby yoking together a row of these unfortunate beings.  Every year, out of five hundred thousand or more slaves, at least half the number perished..  The markets for the slaves were the cities of the Muhammedans all through North Africa, Syria, Turkey, and Persia.  The