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See also:BAIKIE, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM See also:BALFOUR (1824-1864) , Scottish explorer, naturalist and philologist, eldest son of See also:Captain See also:John Baikie, R.N., was See also:born at See also:Kirkwall, See also:Orkney, on the 21st of See also:August 1824. He studied See also:medicine at See also:Edinburgh, and, on obtaining his M.D. degree, joined the royal See also:navy in 1848. He See also:early attracted the See also:notice of See also:Sir See also:Roderick See also:Murchison, through whom he was appointed surgeon and naturalist to the See also:Niger expedition sent out in 1854 by See also:Macgregor See also:Laird with See also:government support. The See also:death of the See also:senior officer (See also:Consul Beecroft) occurring at Fernando Po, Baikie succeeded to the command. Ascending the See also:Benue about 250 M. beyond the point reached by former explorers, the little steamer " See also:Pleiad " returned and reached the mouth of the Niger, after a voyage of 118 days, without the loss of a single See also:man. The expedition had been instructed to endeavour to afford assistance to Heinrich See also:Barth (q.v.), who had in 1851 crossed the Benue in its upper course, but Baikie was unable to gain any trustworthy See also:information concerning him. Returning to See also:England, Baikie gave an See also:account of his See also:work in his Narrative of an Exploring Voyage up the See also:Rivers Kwora and Binue. . . (See also:London, 1856). In See also:March 1857 Baikiewith the See also:rank of See also:British consul—started on another expedition in the " Pleiad." After two years spent in exploring the Niger, the navigating See also:vessel was wrecked in passing through some of the rapids of the See also:river, and Baikie was unable longer to keep his party together. All returned See also:home but himself; in no way daunted, he determined single-handed to carry out the purposes of the expedition. Landing from a small See also:boat, with one or two native followers, at the confluence of the Niger and Benue, he See also:chose See also:Lokoja as the See also:base of his future operations, it being the site of the See also:model See also:farm established by the expedition sent by the British government in 1841, and abandoned within a twelve-See also:month on the death of most of the See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white settlers (see Capt. W. See also:- ALLEN, BOG OF
- ALLEN, ETHAN (1739–1789)
- ALLEN, GRANT CHARLES GRANT BLAIRFINDIEI, (1848–1899)
- ALLEN, JAMES LANE (1850– )
- ALLEN, JOHN (1476–1534)
- ALLEN, or ALLEYN, THOMAS (1542-1632)
- ALLEN, WILLIAM (1532-1594)
- ALLEN, WILLIAM FRANCIS (183o-1889)
Allen, R.N., and T. R. H. See also:Thomson, M.D., A Narrative of the Expedition . to the River Niger in 1841, London, 1848). After purchasing the site, and concluding a treaty with the See also:Fula emir of See also:Nupe, he proceeded to clear the ground, build houses, See also:form enclosures and pave the way for a future See also:city. See also:Numbers flocked to him from all neighbouring districts, and in his See also:settlement were representatives of almost all the tribes of See also:West-Central See also:Africa. To the See also:motley See also:commonwealth thus formed he acted not merely as ruler, but also as physician, teacher and See also:priest. In less than five years he had opened up the See also:navigation of the Niger, made
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roads, and established a See also:market to which the native produce was brought for See also:sale and See also:barter. He had also collected vocabularies of nearly fifty See also:African dialects, and translated portions of the See also:Bible and See also:prayer-See also:book into See also:Hausa. Once only during his See also:residence had he to employ armed force against the surrounding tribes. While on his way home, on leave of See also:absence, he died at Sierra Leone on the 3oth of See also:November 1864. He had done much to establish British See also:influence on the Niger, but after his death the British government abolished the consulate (1866), and it was through private enterprise that some twenty years later the See also:district where Baikie had worked so successfully was finally secured for See also:Great See also:Britain (see See also:NIGERIA).
Baikie's Observations on the Hausa and Fulfulde (i.e. Fula) See also:Languages was privately printed in 1861, and his See also:translation of the See also:Psalms into Hausa was published by the Bible Society in 1881. He was also the author of various See also:works concerning Orkney and See also:Shetland. A See also:monument to his memory was placed in the See also:nave of the See also:ancient See also:cathedral of St See also:Magnus, Kirkwall.
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