In That
Remote Wilderness In Central Equatorial Africa Are The Sources Of The
Nile.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I.
THE EXPEDITION.
Programme - Start from Cairo - Arrive at Berber - Plan of Exploration -
The River Atbara - Abyssinian Affluents - Character of Rivers - Causes
of Nile Inundations - Violence of the Rains - Arrival at Khartoum -
Description of Khartoum - Egyptian Authorities - Taxes - The Soudan -
Slave-Trade of the Soudan - Slave-Trade of the White Nile - System of
Operations - Inhuman Proceedings - Negro Allies - Revelations of
Slave-Trade - Distant Slave Markets - Prospects of the Expedition -
Difficulties at the Outset - Opposition of the Egyptian Authorities -
Preparations for Sailing - Johann Schmidt - Demand for Poll-Tax -
Collision before starting - Amiable Boy! - The Departure - The Boy Osman
- Banks of White Nile - Change in Disposition of Men - Character of the
River - Misery of Scene - River Vegetation - Ambatch Wood - Johann's
Sickness - Uses of Fish-skin - Johann Dying - Johann's Death - New Year
- Shillook Villages - The Sobat River - Its Character - Bahr Giraffe -
Bahr el Gazal - Observations - Corporal Richarn - Character of Bahr el
Gazal - Peculiarity of River Sobat - Tediousness of Voyage - Bull
Buffalo - Sali Achmet killed - His Burial - Ferocity of the Buffalo -
"The Clumsy" on the Styx - Current of White Nile - First View of Natives
- Joctian and his Wife - Charming Husband - Natron - Catch a
Hippopotamus - "Perhaps it was his Uncle" - Real Turtle is Mock
Hippopotamus - Richarn reduced to the Ranks - Arrival at the Zareeba -
Fish Spearing - The Kytch Tribe - White Ant Towers - Starvation in the
Kytch Country - Destitution of the Natives - The Bull of the Herd - Men
and Beasts in a bad Temper - Aboukooka - Austrian Mission Station - Sale
of the Mission-House - Melancholy Fate of Baron Harnier - The Aliab
Tribes - Tulmuli of Ashes - The Shir Tribe - The Lotus Harvest - Arrival
at Gondokoro - Discharge Cargo
CHAPTER II.
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