Baikie, W. Balfour, an Orcadian, born at Kirkwall, surgeon in the Royal Navy; was attached to the Niger Expedition in 1854, and ultimately commanded it, opening the region up and letting light in upon it at the sacrifice of his life; died at Sierra Leone (1825‒1864).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Baikal * Bailey, Nathan