Chapter I: Front Matter

KHARTOUM,
AND
THE BLUE AND WHITE NILES.

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VOL. II.

London, Colburn & Co. 1851.]

KHARTOUM,
AND
THE BLUE AND WHITE NILES.

BY GEORGE MELLY.

Second Edition.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:
COLBURN AND CO., PUBLISHERS,
GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.
1852.

LONDON:
Printed by Schulze and Co., 13, Poland Street.

CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.

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CHAPTER I.

Preparations for a start — Camel-riding — Our encampment — 1
Partridges — Temple at Samneh — A jackall hunt — Eagles —
Picturesque country — Alkaline hot springs

CHAPTER II.

Waking the Bedouins — Camels of the Nursery and Camels of the 18
Desert — Travelling — Nubian children — Dinner

CHAPTER III.

Sakkut — desert vegetation — Arab village — A one-eyed Venus 28
— Dates at Derr Hamed — Nubian faith in European medicine —
Ruined temple — Gazelles — Lost in the Desert — Flowers and
birds — School

CHAPTER IV.

Governor of Dongola — Embarkation of camels — Well in the 42
desert — Camel drivers — Iron fragments — Effects of cold on
the Bedouins — An Arab superstition — Verdure on the banks of
the Nile — Pastoral scene

CHAPTER V.

Gebel Berkel — Antiquities — Appearance of the country — 59
Hawks — A pastoral scene — Illustrations of Holy Writ — Arab
dwellings — Wady Bashana — Bedouin revels — Christmas Day in
the desert

CHAPTER VI.

Khartoum — Introduction to the Governor, Latiffe Pasha — His 82
extreme civility — The Regent’s Park Hippopotamus — Europeans
settled at Khartoum — Interior of the desert — Collection of
curiosities — The Governor of Berber — Bayoumi Effendi, and
the School at Khartoum

CHAPTER VII.

The illustrious strangers — Something about costume — Houses 103
at Khartoum — Mahometans, Christians, and Jews — Trade and
Commerce — Scheme for colonizing the White Nile, latitude 4°
— Morals — The rainy season — Superstition — Military

CHAPTER VIII.

Visit from the Governor — Catholic mission and school — A 116
Colonel of Cavalry — Our grand banquet given to Latiffe
Pasha, and Ali Bey Hassib — Turkish custom of dressing the
table — The Governor’s statements — New dromedary saddles and
bridles — An excursion — An interesting group — A Visit to
Madame Latiffe Pasha — Farewells

CHAPTER IX.

The Governor’s dahabeeyeh — A Bedouin feast — Tickling a 131
crocodile — Pyramids at Meroe — A frightened Hippopotamus —
Their manners — Arrival at Berber — A very pretty investment

CHAPTER X.

Romance of Oriental life — Summary justice and Latiffe Pasha 146
— His despotism — Hatred of Europeans — A box on the ear —
Visit to the hareem of Ah Bey Hassib — Juvenile costume —
Marabouts

CHAPTER XI.

Prejudices of Nubian parents — Egyptian youths sent for 161
education to Paris and London — Unsatisfactory result — Story
of a Perversion — Its tragic end — Jealousy of the Egyptian
Government — A grand prospect

CHAPTER XII.

Mesmerism in Nubia — An Arab Seer — Awkward disclosures — 175
Journey from Berber — Effects of taxation — Scenery of the
desert — Gagee — The comfortable point of temperature —
Intense heat — Giraffes

CHAPTER XIII.

192

CHAPTER XIV.

Additions to our party — Skeleton guides — Lost in the desert 203
— Surefootedness of the camel — The well — A horrible story —
Nubian despotism — An Arab’s revenge

CHAPTER XV.

Extreme cold — Milanese Refugees in the desert — A camel 215
lost — An extraordinary day — Arab merchants — Making up
a small parcel — Rain in the desert — The mirage — First
rate calculators — English weather — In sight of the Nile —
Arrival at Korosko

CHAPTER XVI.

The Cataracts — Fogs — Keneh — A gang of convicts — Nile 228
thieves — Domestic merchants — Shadoofs — Taxation — Ossioot
— The Conscription — Female relations — Coffee shops

CHAPTER XVII.

Tombs at Benihassan — Boat aground — Cairo — The Esbekya — 253
Abbas Pasha and the Porte — The Census — Cairene ladies —
Their evening parties — Palaces of the Pasha — The Overland
Route — An American — Mehemet Ali’s Palace

CHAPTER XVIII.

Barrage — Cotton-boats on the Nile — The bazaars at Atfeh 277
— Interior of a coffee shop — Villages on the banks of the
Mahmoudieh Canal — Nile locomotion — Illuminations — An
Eastern scene — A striking contrast

CHAPTER XIX.

Sale by auction — Dinner and ball — Ride from Alexandria — 290
Rain-water lakes — Effects of distance — Ancient house — A
wonderful Englishwoman — A midnight serenade — A parting
scene — Farewell to Egypt

KHARTOUM,
AND
THE BLUE AND WHITE NILES.

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