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WADELAI , a station on the See also:east See also:bank of the Upper See also:Nile in the See also:British See also:protectorate of L'ganaa, in 2° 50' N., 31° 35' E., 200 M. in a See also:direct See also:line N.N.W. of Entebbe on See also:Victoria See also:Nyanza, and 72 M. by See also:river below Butiaba on See also:Albert Nyanza. The See also:government station was built on a See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill 16o to 200 ft. above the Nile at a spotwhere the river narrows to 482 ft. and attains a See also:depth of 30 ft. At this See also:place was a See also:gauge for measuring the See also:discharge of the river. Wadelai was first visited by a See also:European, Lieut. H. Chippendall, in 1875, and was named after a chieftain who, when visited by Gessi See also:Pasha (on the occasion of that officer's circumnavigation of Albert Nyanza), ruled the surrounding See also:district as a See also:vassal of Kabarega, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Unyoro. The region was annexed to the See also:Egyptian See also:Sudan and Wadelai's See also:village chosen as a government See also:post. This post was on the western bank of the Nile, ri m. below the existing station. Here for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time Emin Pasha had his headquarters, evacuating the place in See also:December 1888. Thereafter, for some years, the district was held by the Mandists. In 1894 the British See also:flag was hoisted at Wadelai, on both See also:banks of the Nile, by See also:Major E. R. See also:Owen. Some twelve years later the government post was withdrawn. There is a native village at the See also:foot of the hill.
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