CONTENTS OF VOL. I.
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CHAPTER I.
T H E E X P E D I T I O N .
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 Rain«
—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—7
Tediousness of Voyage—Bull Buffalo—Sali Achmet killed—
His Burial Ferocity of the Buffalo—“ The Clumsy ” on the