Wild Beasts and Their Ways: Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America; Volume 2

Samuel White Baker

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The Albert n'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, and Explorations of the Nile Sources

Excerpt from Ismailia, Vol. 1 of 2: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade In my former journey I had traversed countries of extreme fertility in Central Africa, with a healthy climate favourable for the settlement of Europeans, at a mean altitude of feet above the sea level. This large and almost boundless extent of country was well peopled by a race who only required the protection of a strong but pater nal government to become of considerable import ance, and to eventually develop the great resources of the soil. I found lands varying in natural capabilities according to their position and altitudes - where sugar, cotton, coffee, rice, spices, and all tropical produce might be successfully cultivated; but those lands were without any civilized form of govern ment, and every man did what seemed right in his own eyes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs

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The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs

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The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Chap. i. J ROCKS OF THE DESERT. 9 waiting his opportunity, snatched the basin from the servant, and in the agony of thirst drank nearly the whole of its contents, handing the residue to a brother Arab, with the hearty ejaculation, " El hambd el Illah!" (Thank God!) My wife was seriously ill from the fatigue and intense heat, but there can be no halt in the desert; dead or alive, with the caravan you must travel, as the party depends upon the supply of water. A few extracts verbatim from my journal will describe the journey: -- " May W. -- Started at 12.30 P. m. and halted at 6.30. Off again at 7.30 P. m. till 2.45 A. m. About four miles from Moorahd, grey granite takes the place of the volcanic slag and schist that formed the rocks to that point. The desert is now a vast plain, bounded by a range of rugged hills on the south. On the north side of Moorahd, at a distance of above eight miles, slate is met with; this continues for about three miles of the route, but it is of impure quality, with the exception of one vein, of a beautiful blue colour. A few miserable stunted thorny mimosas are here to be seen scattered irregularly, as though lost in this horrible desert." Many years ago, when the Egyptian troops first conquered Nubia, a regiment was destroyed by thirst in crossing this desert. The men, being upon a limited allowance of water, suffered from extreme thirst, and deceived by the appearance of a mirage that exactly resembled a beautiful lake, they insisted on being taken to its banks by the Arab guide. It was in vain that the guide assured them that the lake was unreal, and he refused to lose the precious time by wandering from his course. Words led to blows, and he was killed by the soldiers, whose lives depended upon his guidance. The whole regiment turn...

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Albert N'yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, and Explorations of the Nile Sources

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