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Baker (SIR SAMUEL WHITE an English)

SIR SAMUEL WHITE, an English traveler, born in 1821. He resided some years in Ceylon, and, in 1861, began his African travels, which lasted several years, in the upper Nile regions, and resulted, among other discoveries, in that of Albert Nyanza Lake in 1864, and of the exit of the White Nile from it.

Upon his return to England he was knighted. In 1869 he returned to Africa as head of an expedition sent by the Khedive of Egypt to annex and open up to trade a large part of the newly explored country, being raised to the dignity of Pasha. He returned in 1873, having finished his work. His writings include "Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon," "The Albert Nyanza, etc.," "The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia," "Ismailia: a Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa," "Cyprus as I saw it in 1879," "Cast Up by the Sea" (1869).

He died Dec. 30, 1893.