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===Sir Samuel White Baker=== [[File:Duleep Singh00.jpg|thumb|200px|Duleep Singh, in ceremonial dress, 1852, by the English painter [[George Duncan Beechey]]]] While [[Sir Samuel White Baker]] was visiting the [[Duke of Atholl]] on his shooting estate in Scotland, he befriended Maharaja Duleep Singh. In 1858β1859, the two partnered an extensive hunting trip in central Europe and the Balkans, via Frankfurt, Berlin, Vienna and Budapest. On the last part of the voyage, Baker and the Maharajah hired a wooden boat in Budapest, which was eventually abandoned on the frozen Danube. The two continued into [[Vidin]] where, to amuse the Maharajah, Baker went to the Vidin slave market. There, Baker fell in love with a [[white slave]] girl, destined for the Ottoman Pasha of Vidin. Baker was outbid by the Pasha but bribed the girl's attendants. The two ran away in a carriage together and eventually, as [[Florence Baker]], she became Baker's lover and wife and accompanied him everywhere he journeyed.
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