Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XX. A CHANGE OF OCCUPATION THE WHITE NILE DEPARTURE ON TRADING VOYAGE VOTAGE UP THE RIVER LEAVE THE SOUDAN ADVENTURE WITH A CROCODILE THE FIRST SHILLOOKS THE ABBA ISLANDS THE JEBELEIN BAGARA FILIBUSTERS ASSAULT BY A HIPPOPOTAMUS THE STOLEN PINCERS A BAGARA CHIEF SPORTING EXPLOITS AN ELEPHANT THE SHILLOOKS AND THEIR CAPITAL HABITS OF THE SHILLOOKS THEIR GOVERNMENT A SHILLOOK CHIEF AND HIS FAMILY HIS HAREM AND HOUSEHOLD PRIMITIVE BOATS AND FISHING ABUNDANCE OF CROCODILES THE SOBAT RIVER THE DJIBBA TRIBE SCENERY OF THE RIVER GREAT LAKE THE NOUAER NOVEL MODE OF SALUTATION VOYAGE UP THE LAKE DIFFICULTY OF ITS NAVIGATION THE NATIVES HOSTILE TRADING FOR IVORY A BARGAIN CONCLUDED. The events of the following five years, for the most part on old ground, I pass over, only remarking that, after the death of my protector, Mehemet Ali Pacha, I left the service of the Egyptian government, and took advantage of the abolition of the monopoly of the produce of the Soudan to establish myself in the gum-arabic trade at II Obeid, where I resided five years. It was, therefore, not until the year 1853, when that trade had become paralysed by native competition, and a greatly increased export from the west coast to the English tmarkets, making it no longer remunerative, that I turned my attention to the far interior, the high-road to which was the White Nile. THE WHITE NILE. 337 This stately river had been navigated in 1839-42 by Mehemet Ali's expeditions under Selim Captan, and was accompanied by DArnaud and Mons. Thibaut, the former of whom published a map of the river as far as 4 42' N. The White River now for the first time eclipsed its tributary the Blue Nile, and without hesitation it became acknowledged as the Nile. Subsequently to the..."
