HEUGLIN, Theodor von (1824-1876), an eminent African and Arctic traveller, was born 20th March 1824 at Hirschlanden near Leonberg in Wurtemberg, and died at Stuttgart, 5th November 1876. His father was a Protestant pastor, and he was originally trained to be a mining engineer, but his own early ambition was to contribute to scientific progress by his personal explorations, and he prepared himself for his task by careful and multifarious discipline, studying the natural sciences, and more particularly zoology, acquiring the more serviceable of the modern languages, strengthening his physique by gymnastic exercises, and learning to use with equal skill his pencil and his gun. Supplied with funds by his mother’s liberality, Heuglin went to Egypt in 1851, and till 1865 the northeastern regions of Africa were the main scene of his labours. In 1852 he accompanied Dr Reitz, the Austrian consul at Khartum, in his fatal journey to Abyssinia; in 1853, having been appointed Dr Reitz’s successor in the consulate, he visited Kordofan and the lower course of the White Nile; and in 1857, on his return after about two years’ absence in Europe, he was commissioned by the grand-duke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria to explore the countries along the west coast of the Red Sea. From the latter part of 1858 to the latter part of 1860 he was again in Europe; but in 1861 he was placed at the head of the Vogel search expedition, which included Munzinger, Steudner, Kinzelbach, <fcc., and was expected to make its way to Wadai. Having reached Mai-schecha, however, the explorers broke up into three parties, Heuglin turning along with Steudner and Schubert in the direction of Adoa, Gondar, and the Galla lands. At Khartum they joined Miss Tinne’s party, and proceeded to Lake Rey and the ...