Chapter XVI: Appendix

LIST OF BEASTS, BIRDS, AND REPTILES,
SENT TO THE BERLIN MUSEUM.

Lepus æth.

Cercopithecus Sabaeus, n. sp.

Sciurus brachyotus _Ehrenb._

Viverra Canis, a kind of jackal with short tail.

Felis Leo.

Felis, n. sp.

Felis Serval.

Antilope Saltiana.

Antilope Sommeringii _Rupp._

Falco vocifer _Daud._

Falco excaudatus _Daud._

Falco polyzonus _Rupp._

Falco leucocephalus.

Falco melanopterus _Daud._

Falco tinnunculus _L._

Strix flammea _L._ var. Afric.

Corvus Cryptorhina poicilorhynchos _Wag._

Lanius, n. sp.

Lanius nubicus.

Lanius barbatus, sp. dist.

Turdus [Ixos] leucocephalus [Crateropus].

T. [Ixos] xanthopygus [Arsinoe _L._].

Saxicola aurita _Temm._

Fringilla [Pyrgita] spadiceae, n. sp. Afr.

Fr. [Estrelda] elegans _L. Gm._

Fr. bengalus _L. Gm._

Fr. cantans _L._

Fr. nitens, _L._, adult.

Vidua [Fring.] paradisea.

V. [Fring. serena.]

Oryx [Fring. ignicolor] _Vieill._

Ploceus personatus _Temm._

Lamprotornis aenea [Turdus aeneus].

L. chalybea, n. sp.

L. Chrysogaster.

Nectarinia lucida, n. sp.

N. melampogon, n. sp.

N. metallica, n. sp.

N. metallica, adult.

Anabastes acaciæ [Crateropus].

Picus nubicus _L. Gm._

P. Goertan _L. Gm._

Bucco erythropygos, n. sp.

Pogonias senegalensis.

Psittacus frenatus.

Cypselus melba (var. jun.).

Caprimulgus cuneatus, n. sp.

C. climacurus _Vieill._

Merops nubicus.

M. Cuvieri.

M. viridis.

M. erythropterus _Lath._

Alcedo rudis _L._

A. senegalensis _L._

A. Actæon.

A. striolata _Ill._

Coracias abyssinica _L._

Centropus senegalensis _Ill._

Colias senegalensis _L. Gm._

C. striatus _Lath._

Buceros abyss. _L._, adult.

Buc. nasutus _L._

Buc. melanoleucos, _Lichtenst. Bechst._

B. erythrorhynchus _Briss. Tem._

Columba capensis _Lath._, adult.

Pterocles Senegal. _Temm._

Perdix, sp.

Ciconia Senegal.

Grus Pavonina.

Ibis Hagedasch _Lath._

Ib. æthiopica.

Parra africana _Lath._

Anser ægyptiacus.

A. [Sarkidiornis] melanotus.

Pelecanus Onocrotalus L., adult.

Gypogeranus.

Psamosaurus.

Hydrosaurus [Monitor, Varanus niloticus].

Naja Haje [Coluber Naje _Hasselq._].

Vipera Cerastes _Daud._

Python Sebæ.

&c. &c. &c.

THE END.

LONDON:
SPOTTISWOODES and SHAW,
New-street-Square.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: Native boat.]

[Footnote 2: In Chartum, the Baron, indeed, had used his poisons at the Pascha’s desire, and in his service, and it is more than probable that the latter, at an after period, caused the Baron to be poisoned by one of his wives, a Circassian, with whom he, Soliman Effendi, lived on the worst terms of hate and discord.]

[Footnote 3: Nemzani plur. Nimza, borrowed into the Turkish language from the Sclavonic, in which Niemetz means a silent fellow, and _per abusum_, a German, as he cannot speak their language, and having the same meaning as Deutscher among the Sclaves, where this word is still used as a term of reproach, arising from the bad blood left by the old Sclavonic wars, though the Turks, as I am fully convinced, use the word without any bad meaning. In Europe, on the contrary, the word Sclave (slave) is no title of honour, and even the Greeks sneer at Σκλαβος.]

[Footnote 4: We did not again fall in with this singular man till encamped at the Kassela-el-Sus, when we richly rewarded and handsomely entertained him; he, however, had often seen my brother in the interim, but never came near him, or made himself known.]

[Footnote 5: These are filled up with rubbish, and when much of this was removed by the treasure seeker, Dr. Ferlini from Bologna, no mummies were found, but many skeletons in sitting postures, which he stripped of their gold and ornaments.]

[Footnote 6: The word for brick is top achmer, red stone, and may point to a manufacture introduced by the Arabs.]

[Footnote 7: Sorghum cernuum, L., the ancient Egyptian bread corn—Sorgho, a kind of thick-eared, high-growing barley.]

[Footnote 8: How the French in Algeria,—called el Geseier by the Arabs,—can use the word kabyle for any particular persons, tribe, or country, I cannot comprehend.]

[Footnote 9: Kisra, flat cakes like pancakes; other bread is called esch, as is also the durra itself.]

[Footnote 10: Although this short description of Mons. Thibaut is merely truth, and nothing but truth, even to his having been a _gamin_ of Paris, still, after having journeyed with him on the White Nile, when he admitted that we had known each other in Greece in 1822-23, I see, from the style of it, that the warm climate calls forth a passionateness that one can hardly explain on calmer consideration; but even for this psychological fact, I give my journal word for word.]

[Footnote 11: Top, in plural Topchan—pieces of cotton cloths twenty or thirty ells long and one yard and a half broad, which come from Hedjas. Dogk—pieces twice as broad, from Habesch, of two reals value.]

[Footnote 12: These names, Ruman and Portugahn, point to emigration from Greece and Portugal, although the first fruit may be found among the hieroglyphics.]

[Footnote 13: So called by the Persians with whom they originated; by the Greeks, nargile; by the Turks, nerschile.]

[Footnote 14: Of this remarkable war in Hedjas, the details of which are most probably even yet little known, I hope ere long to be able to give the public some account from materials I have by me.]

[Footnote 15: A long crooked knife, sharpened on the inner edge.]

[Footnote 16: Fustanella, from φουστανα.]

[Footnote 17: Defterdar, keeper of public accounts, minister of finance.]

[Footnote 18: We have long ago been convinced of the truth of the common saying in Egypt, that no Arab can bring home even an orange or lemon from the market, without running a pin into and sucking it, so as to make something by the job. The love of theft seems to have been an hereditary vice of Arabs from the earliest times, as even in the Bible they are described as unsafe companions. However, their thefts are generally those of the pettiest kinds, such as Frank servants would not think of, as they never take more than a small portion of what they steal from, even were this a pile of coin or a heap of sugar. They either trust that the owner’s stupidity will not miss this (and it is true Europeans are very apt in this country to sink into a curious state of careless listlessness), or they imagine that, in case of discovery, no great noise will be made about such a trifle. The Barabra are perfect children in their manners. When sent to fetch anything, they never think, full as their hands may be, of first emptying them, ere trying to lift other articles. One of these we, for our sins, had, while in Chartum, attempted to make a cook of, and instruct him, as far as we ourselves had picked it up, in making our favourite dish of jugged hare; but all in vain—a nice mess he made! A cookery book would, indeed have been a treasure here, as the favourite dishes of one’s young and healthy days are doubly relished when ailing, or among a people whose food and cookery are so different to European.]

[Footnote 19: The Faki should be well versed in the Koran, able to read and write; they are not allowed to smoke or drink merissa, and they should be pious men, but, in spite of their outward holiness, they are generally the greatest rascals going.]

[Footnote 20: Mara, woman; bint, bannàht, a girl; garië, gàddim, female slave.]

[Footnote 21: It is also sometimes got rid of by salt water bathing, as has been remarked on slaves brought to Alexandria.]

[Footnote 22: I also afterwards cured in Chartum (my poor brother having made his early and sad departure from this life) our brave Agar (meaning in the Aggem speech of Taka, elephant hunter), who had acquired the disease from a Koschef in return for having cured his almost cut-off head. This lad, from the Basa hills, where he, during a chasufa, had been made a slave, calmly held out his foot and kept it there like a stoic, so that he might be held by the other servants as “schatter” (brave), while my own hand trembled fearfully. Each morning showed two pieces of the worm, like white threads, coming out of the opening caused by the burning; as these dried up they fell off, and the wound soon healed of itself. Being obliged afterwards, from want of travelling funds, to leave him in Alexandria, I handed him over to the Alt-Graf Franz von Salm-Reifferscheidt of Prague, who soon became very fond of him, and had an excellent education bestowed on him, as I myself afterwards saw when on my return home, and was no more than I expected from my honest countryman.]

[Footnote 23: His mother has herself alone to blame, that her son in his youth indulged in all kinds of excess. When Ladjam was only twelve years old she gave him a young female Abyssinian slave as a playfellow, and on his entering his fourteenth year she presented him with a Circassian girl, by way of change. At this moment, the son of Omar Kaschif, who is only twelve years old, lives with a wife of the same age. It is frightful to see how such young children are almost forced into vice, and how their parents look on it as a sign of stoutness they may be proud of.]

[Footnote 24: It is asserted in Paris that this took place at the altar.]

[Footnote 25: This he closely adhered to on his last trip to France to look for a bride, and there he happily gained a wife, who may have then dreamt she had not done so ill.]

[Footnote 26: This I have remarked (when close to them on the long harbour bridge at Constantinople) in the women of the former Sultan Mahmoud and other Turks of rank, when these were there taking the air in the oxen-drawn carriages, enjoying the favour, procured them by the Sultan, of looking about them and seeing something of life; but this species of emancipation does not seem to have borne the best fruit, for I hardly had got to Egypt ere the Sultan issued some pretty severe orders as to these ladies’ mode of life.]

[Footnote 27: A band some four or five inches wide, drawn through the trousers to hold them fast above the hips.]

[Footnote 28: Achu—Brother.]

[Footnote 29: Pieces of cotton cloth.]

[Footnote 30: See also L’Univers, ou Histoire et Déscription de tous les Peuples, de leurs Réligions, Mœurs, Coutumes, &c. Egypte, par M. Champollion-Figear, conservateur à la Bibliothèque du Roi.]

[Footnote 31: From balta, axe.]

Transcriber's note:

pg 2 Changed: "oldest Juffbaschi or captain" to: "Jussbaschi"

pg 17 Changed: "Nile to look out, ond there" to: "and"

pg 19 Changed: "morning of the 18th May" to: "March"

pg 21 Changed: "and then “Huc bimùtt”" to: "“Hue"

pg 26 Changed: "where no hammah is to be got" to: "hammab"

pg 29 footnote 7 Changed: "Sorgno, a kind of thick-eared" to: "Sorgho"

pg 38 (x2) Changed: "Sanakim" to: "Sauakim"

pg 41 Changed: "was none, the column o" to: "of"

pg 75 Changed: "Schukurie and Habbabee Arabs" to: "Kabbabee"

pg 82 Changed: "be useless as pecimens" to: "specimens"

pg 90 Changed: "at might he called pretty" to: "be"

pg 109 Changed: "on the Amàhe already granted" to: "Amàhn"

pg 129 Missing reference to footnote 19 placed after: "Sebbà. The
Sheiks and Faki"

pg 130 Changed: "A Skukurie-Arab had a considerable" to: "Shukurie-
Arab"

pg 139 Changed: "hostilities with the Pascha Juffuff" to: "Jussuff"

pg 142 Changed: "and become sa man. Rich" to: "becomes a"

pg 143 Changed: "departments hav succeeded in" to: "have"

pg 157 Changed: "to shine in spendid garments" to: "splendid"

pg 157 Changed: "sought after, t bear a high value" to: "after, bear
a"

pg 186 Changed: "our Husseln the Gaddam taib" to: "Hussein"

pg 190 Changed: "l’œil gouflé, le nez écrasé" to: "gonflé"

pg 201-202 Changed: "set on it; in in the breast" to: "it; in the"

pg 204 Changed: "races are to to be looked on" to: "are to be"

pg 212 Changed: "fruit of the thorny Hebbek" to: "Nebbek"

pg 217 Changed: "separation arose Hanathi, Kadmin" to: "Hauathi"

pg 244 Changed: "Osmar Kaschef, as a preventive" to: "Omar"

pg 247 Changed: "and even a part of Schukune" to: "Schukurie"

pg 251 Changed: "shot by our soldiery (Ashari)" to: "Askari"

pg 258 Changed: "black wings (Larius barbarus" to: "Lanius barbatus"

pg 260 Changed: "The Pascha summonsed me" to: "summoned"

Other spelling inconsistencies have been left unchanged.