Destruction of Forests—Elephant’s Foot a Luxury Preservation
of Flesh and Fat for the March—Preparation of Bread
for a Journey—The Bos Gaffer—The most Formidable Animals
—Rifles for Wild Countries—Sundry Hints—Bullets for Large
Game—Antelopes of Central Africa and Abyssinia.
Page 524—546.
CHAPTER XXII.
WE LEAVE THE DINDER.
Curious Hunting Party—Character of Abyssinian Rivers—Borasms
Æthiopicus—Rufaâr and the Arab Sheik The Blue Nile The
very gentlemanly Faky— Regularly “ sold ’’—Arrival at Khartoum—
The British Lion—The Zoological Collection—The
Ostriches invite themselves to Tea—I intercede for Mek
Nimmur—King Theodore’s Ultimatum—Climate of the Soudan—
Productions of the Soudan—The Sageer, or Water-
wheel—Uncontrolled Action of the Nile—Suggestions for the
Irrigation of Egypt—Why should not Science create a Delta?—
A Series of Weirs upon the Nile—The Benefits to Egypt and
to Civilization—Ancient Works of Irrigation in Ceylon Industrious
Population of Egypt—Capabilities for producing
Cotton—The Great Sahara—The Race of Life—Prepare to
discover the White Nile Source . . > Page 547 575.
L I S T OF I L L US TR A T IONS .
From Original Sketches by S i r S . W . B a k e r .
PAGE
p o r t r a i t s .................................................. Frontispiece
GAZELLE-STALKING IN THE DESERT ..........................................................................16
THE DESERT JOURNET .............................................................................. 99
THE SEROOT E L Y ....................................................................... 1 85
FIRST RUSH OP THE G I R A F F E S ............................................................................1 90
THE BAYARD ....................................................................................................2 1 3
THE COOR ................................... 2 25
THE BAG GA R .......................................... 2 2 9
QUARREL OVER A H IPPOPO TAM U S....................................................................... . 2 5 4
ARABS ATTACKING THE ELEPHANT WITH THE SWORD . . . . 3 2 3
THE RHINOCEROS HUNT. TAHER SHER IFF LEADS . . . . . . 3 61
HEAD OF THE BLACK R H IN O C E R O S .....................................................................3 6 5
THE RHINOCEROSES HAVE IT ALL THEIR OWN WAY . . . . . 3 8 7
HARPOONING THE C R O C O D IL E ...................................................................................3 9 3
HARPOONING THE H IPPOPO TAMU S...........................................................................3 9 5
THE FIGHT WITH THE BULL H I P P O ....................................................................3 97
GAME RETURNING FROM THE RIVER ....................................................................... 4 0 3
THE DYING L IO N E S S ........................................................................................................4 1 6
CLOSE QUARTERS WITH THE L I O N ....................................................................4 2 0
THE WHIRLPOOL AT THE ROYAN J U N C T IO N ..............................................4 4 0
THE SWORD WINS THE D A Y ..............................................' ...................................................4 3 8
h e a d o f m e h e d e h e t. (B. E llipsiprym na).............................................. 4 6 9
UNPROVOKED ATTACK OF A RHINOCEROS UPON THE HORSE . . . 4 8 8
THE RHINOCEROS RIDDEN TO B A Y .................................................. 491