Chapter I

Intended Return to Cairo. — Arrival of Artist. —
Determination to penetrate to Meroe. — Motives. —
Advantages to be derived from the Discoveries of Young,
Wilkinson, Champollion, and Rosellini. — Departure from
Thebes. — Turkish Mode of Fasting. — Arrival at Assuan. —
Hints to Travellers on Turkish Etiquette. — Nazr of
Berber. — Unpromising Accounts of the Desert. — Detention
for Want of Camels. — Sheakh of the Ababde Tribe. — Ruins
of Elephantine and Assuan. — Bosnian Soldiers. — Water
Skins defective. — Arrival of the Camels. — Commencement
of the Journey. — Nubian Poverty. — Caravan from
Khartoun. — Cultivation in Lower Nubia. — Singular and
Picturesque Scenery. — Nubian Peasantry and their Slaves.
— Turkish Humanity. — Roman Enclosure at Dacker. —
Provisions in Nubia. — Similarity of a modern and ancient
Custom. — Nubians, their Prejudices, Poverty, Food, Want
of Religion, and Drunkenness. — Their domestic Comfort,
and comparative Freedom. — Wady el Arab. — Arrival at
Korosko. — Preparations for crossing the Great Nubian
Desert. — The Governor of Korosko. — Drunken Coptic
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