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*[https://www.wdl.org/en/search/?item_type=journal&institution=national-library-of-uganda&grouping=9955 ''The Uganda Journal''] The Uganda Literary and Scientific Society. Editions from Volume I 1934 (broken range). World Digital Library a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, from National Library of Uganda. Stated to be 75 editions. If all results do not display, click on "Narrow results", and then select by time period.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.175925/page/n1 ''Five Years Hard: Being an account of the fall of the Fulani Empire and a picture of the daily life of a Regimental Officer among the people of the Western Sudan''] by Brigadier-General FP Crozier. 1932 Archive.org. Covers the period 1901-1905. Note: missing some pages. [https://theauxiliaries.com/men-alphabetical/men-c/crozier/crozier.html Biographical details, including obituary] theauxiliaries.com. For WW1 books by Crozier, see [[Western Front#Infantry and others|Western Front - Infantry and others]].
*[https://archive.org/details/maneatersoftsavo00patt ''The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and other East African Adventures''] by Lieut.-Col. J H Patterson 1921 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/man_eaters_of_tsavo_1007_librivox Librivox audio version 1], [https://archive.org/details/podcast_man-eaters-tsavo-the-by-pa_384842805?sort=titleSorter Librivox audio version 2] with each chapter a separate download. Part of Podcasts. Both Archive.org. In 1898 he was a (military) engineer engaged on the construction of the Uganda Railway, appointed by the Foreign Office.
:[https://archive.org/details/maneatinglionsof07patt/page/n1/mode/2up ''The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo''] by Lieut.-Col. J H Patterson 1925 Archive.org.
:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Patterson_(author) John Henry Patterson (author)] Wikipedia. For other books by Patterson see [[Gallipoli]] and [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)]].
:[https://archive.org/details/sevenlivesofcolo0000bria/mode/2up ''The seven lives of Colonel Patterson : how an Irish lion hunter led the Jewish Legion to victory''] by Denis Brian 2008. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. There are several chapters on his time in Africa c 1898-1914. He joined the British Army 14 March 1885 age 17. C 1892 he was a sergeant in India, where he later studied engineering.:It appears he was first commissioned as a Lieutenant, in the Imperial Yeomanry 16 March 1900 ([https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27174/page/1792 ''London Gazette'']) with the name J H Paterson (corrected in a later edition).
*[https://archive.org/details/britishoversease0000carr/page/n5/mode/2up ''The British Overseas : Exploits of a Nation of Shopkeepers''] by C E Carrington 1950. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Includes many chapters about Africa.
*[https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/34096 ''The King's African Rifles: A Study in the Military History of East and Central Africa, 1890-1914''] by H M Bartlett 1954. PhD thesis SOAS University of London.
