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INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER II.

COMPOSITION OF THE EXPEDITION. — AHMED BASHA; HIS CHARACTER. —
SCENE BETWEEN MOHAMMED ALI AND SHEIKH SULIMAN OF ROSSIÈRES. —
SLAVE TRADE AND SLAVE HUNTS. — SULIMAN EFFENDI, THE SICILIAN
POISONER. — DEATH OF MUSTAPHA BEY. — VAISSIÈRE AND THE
EUROPEANS IN EGYPT. — PUCKLER MUSCAU. — AHMED BASHA’S WIFE. —
DESCRIPTION OF KHARTÙM. — BLUE AND WHITE NILE. — DEPARTURE OF
THE EXPEDITION. 29

CHAPTER III.

VILLAGE OF OMDURMAN. — MOHAMMED EL NIMR, THE BURNER OF ISMAIL,
MOHAMMED ALI’S SON. — MEROE AND THE PYRAMIDS. — SENNAAR. —
WANT OF DISCIPLINE ON BOARD THE VESSELS. — SCENERY OF THE
RIVER. — TOMB OF MOHA-BEY. — DIFFERENT ARAB TRIBES. — HILLS
OF AULI MANDERA AND BRAME. — SULIMAN KASHEF. — REMARKS ON HIS
GOVERNMENT. — AQUATIC PLANTS. — THE SHILLUKS AND BARÀBRAS. —
LITTLE FEAST OF BAIRAM. — CHARACTERS OF THIBAUT, THE FRENCH
COLLECTOR, AND OF ARNAUD AND SABATIER, THE ENGINEERS. — HONEY.
— MANDJERA OR DUCKS. — FEÏZULLA CAPITAN’S EPILEPTIC FITS. —
WOODED ISLANDS. — THE HEDJAZI. 67

CHAPTER IV.

MONOTONOUS SCENERY. — CULTIVATION OF DATE-PALMS. — EL AES. —
BOUNDARY OF THE TURKISH DOMINIONS. — REPUBLIC OF APES. —
HUSSEIN AGU’S FAVOURITE MONKEY. — CRUELTY OF EMIR BEY. —
ADVENTURE WITH A CROCODILE. — BELIEF OF THE TURKS IN THE
TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS. — LIEUT. ABD. ELLIAB, THE DEVOTEE. —
THE TAILORING PROPENSITIES OF FEÏZULLA CAPITAN. — A “FANTASIE.”
— FEÏZULLA’S INTEMPERANCE. — GUINEA-FOWLS. — ABU SEID. —
DESCRIPTION OF WATER PLANTS, AND GRAPES PECULIAR TO THE WHITE
NILE. — THE AMBAK-TREE. — GEBL DINKU. — ABDURIECKMAN, CHIEF OF
THE SHILLUKS, AND SULIMAN KASHEF’S BARBARITY. — HIPPOPOTAMIA,
AND CURIOUS SUPERSTITION OF THE SAILORS. — THE DINKAS AND THE
SHILLUKS. — THE LOTUS. — MOUNT DEFAFAUNGH. — TAMARIND TREES. —
THE TAILOR-CAPTAIN, AND INSUBORDINATION OF HIS CREW. — FIRST
APPEARANCE OF GNATS. 96

CHAPTER V.

A STORM. — TOKULS OR HUTS OF THE SHILLUKS. — THE TALLE, A
SPECIES OF MIMOSA. — THE GEÏLID. — THE BAMIE. — UEKA. —
WILD RICE. — OMMOS. — THE SHILLUKS A LARGER NATION THAN THE
FRENCH! — IMMENSE POPULATION ON THE BANKS OF THE WHITE ARM OF
THE NILE. — THE HABAS OR FORESTS. — A TURKISH JEST! — LEECHES.
— DISEMBARKATION ON THE LAND OF THE SHILLUKS. — DESCRIPTION OF
THE TOKULS. — CONDUCT OF THE BEDOUINS TOWARDS THE PILGRIMS TO
MECCA. — THE MURHAKA. — MANNER OF CATCHING GAZELLES. —SÜRTUKS
OR CANOES OF THE SHILLUKS. — REFUSAL OF THE KING OF THIS NATION
TO VISIT THE VESSELS. — TREATMENT OF HIS AMBASSADORS AT KHARTÙM.
— THE BAOBÀB TREE. — DHELLÈB PALMS. — WINDINGS OF THE RIVER. —
OSTRICHES. — HILLS OF ASHES OF THE DINKAS. — RIVER SOBÀB. 131