Chapter 22

WE LEAVE THE DINDER.

Curious Hunting Party--Character of Abyssinian Rivers--Borassus AEthiopicus--Rufaar and the Arab Sheik--The Blue Nile--The very gentlemanly Faky--Regularly "sold"--Arrival at Khartoum--The British Lion--The Zoological Collection--The Ostriches invite themselves to Tea--I intercede for Mek Nimmur--King Theodore's Ultimatum--Climate of the Soudan--The Sageer or Water-wheel--Uncontrolled Action of the Nile--Suggestions for the Irrigation of Egypt--Why should not Science create a Delta?--A Series of Weirs upon the Nile--The Benefits to Egypt and to Civilization--Ancient Works of Irrigation in Ceylon--Industrious Population of Egypt--Capabilities for producing Cotton--The Great Sahara--The Race of Life--Prepare to discover the White Nile Source.

THE NILE TRIBUTARIES OF ABYSSINIA, AND THE SWORD HUNTERS OF THE HAMRAN ARABS.