Sudan -- Description and travel
Arrival at the second cataract of the Nile. — The desert beyond. — Resting-places. — A distressed traveller. — Green fields again. — Asleep on a horse. — The river from the second to the third cataract. — Irrigation beyond.
Arrival at the second cataract of the Nile. — The desert beyond. — Resting-places. — A distressed traveller. — Green fields again. — Asleep on a horse. — The river from the seco...
3. CHAPTER II.A visit to a temple has always afforded me instruction and matter for reflection, not less, perhaps, on account of the temple itself than on account of the tourists from differe...
4. CHAPTER III.NEW DONGOLA, called by the natives Oordeh, is the first place on the banks of the Nile after entering Nubia which deserves the name of a town, and then only of a very shabby one...
5. CHAPTER IV.A deserted town. — The Coptic church. — The priest. — His admiration for England. — The books I gave him. — A search for a bed. — A long swim. — The opposite bank of the river....
6. CHAPTER V.BEFORE beginning our journey into the desert it may not be uninteresting to the general reader, and more especially to travellers intending to undertake journeys into this part...
7. CHAPTER VI.Started. — Commotion in camp. — Welcome news. — Festivities. — The gazelle. — Mohommed Effendi’s diary. — A deserted donkey. — Mahtool. — Wady Milkh. — Sotaire. — A polite shiek...
8. CHAPTER VII.ON the following morning at sunrise, when the cattle came down to drink, we selected a fine ox, made a bargain with the old shiekh, and paid him three Maria Theresa dollars, or...
9. CHAPTER VIII.AT Bagghareeyeh there are about a hundred and fifty wells, all in the centre of the valley, varying from ten to thirty feet in depth. The shallow wells, however, only contain wa...
10. CHAPTER IX.BY one o’clock or half-past on the morning of our arrival at Om-Badr the ten thousand camels and other animals, having finished their potations, had all cleared away from the we...
11. chapter vi. of the Korân, and that that chapter is specially devoted toIn my wanderings through the camp I was well received by all, the general desire evidently being to atone for their previous bad behaviour. In one case I was pressed to share in...
12. CHAPTER X.The Wady Milkh may correctly be described as beginning in the plain opposite Om-Badr. Three valleys here unite to form it: the “Wady Amees” from the south, the “Wady Zancore” fr...
13. CHAPTER XI.The well at Karnac. — Boota. — Friendly ostriches, — Broosh. — The shiekh and the frying-pan. — A visit to a “tuckle.” — A novel banking account. — “Tobes.” — “Merissa.” — An un...
14. CHAPTER XII.A squabble. — Arrival of Ismail Pacha Ayoob. — His physician. — His engineer. — Conversation with a pacha. — We invite him to dine. — Cora. — Paul and Virginia. — Music. — A ban...
15. CHAPTER XIII.THE day and the hour of our caravan’s arrival at El Fasher or Tendelty was Wednesday, March 22nd, 2 o’clock p.m. We had left Old Dongola, as will be remembered, at 11 o’clock on...
16. CHAPTER XIV.European travellers. — Early inhabitants. — Delil or Dali. — Intestine wars. — Sulieman Solon. — Meissa. — Achmet Bokr. — Mohommed Dowra. — Omar Leyle. — Aboo-el-Ghassam. — Moho...
17. CHAPTER XV.EL FASHER, or Tendelty, stands on the western bank of the Wady Tendelty, in an angle formed by the junction of the latter with the far more considerable Wady el Kho. The Tendelt...
18. CHAPTER XVI.WE had much to do at El Fasher, in plotting our work from Om-Badr in order to enable us to decide upon the relative merits of the two routes over which we had travelled, and in...
19. CHAPTER XVII.WITH the exception of the bed of the Wady el Kho, the country all round El Fasher, for a distance of ten or fifteen miles, is utter desert, and no villages are within that dista...
20. CHAPTER XVIII.A conclave. — Hyenas. — Mohommed’s love. — Mohommed’s prayer. — Its effect. — A runaway camel. — A search for a lion. — The wake of the “ship of the desert.” — A welcome supper....
21. CHAPTER XIX.BEFORE starting with our work on the way home, it was necessary to weed out from our two hundred and thirty-four camels, none of which we had lost, all such as were weak, sickly...
22. CHAPTER XX.BETWEEN fifteen and sixteen miles past Orgoodt the line reaches its highest point, sixty-nine feet above the starting point at El Fasher and two thousand four hundred and eighty...
23. CHAPTER XXI.One of our party missed. — A dreadful night. — Found at last. — Dry wells. — We change our route. — An insolent guide. — Kadjah. — Stolen camels. — An Arab shiekh made prisoner....