The Boy Travellers in the Far East, Part Fifth / Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through Africa
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THE YOUNG NIMRODS IN NORTH AMERICA THE YOUNG NIMRODS AROUND THE WORLD
ADVENTURES OF TWO YOUTHS IN JOURNEYS TO JAPAN AND CHINA—TO SIAM AND
JAVA—TO CEYLON AND INDIA—TO EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND ETC.
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With this volume the wanderings of the Boy Travellers in the Far East are brought to an end. Those enterprising and observant youths have arrived safely at home, in company with their companion and mentor, Doctor Bronson. They have seen and learned a great deal in their absence, and it has been the aim of the author to tell the story of their travels so that it would interest and instruct the school-mates and friends of Frank Bassett and Fred Bronson, together with others who have not the pleasure of their personal acquaintance.
The method followed in the preparation of the preceding volumes of the series of the Boy Travellers has been observed in the present book, as far as it was possible to do so. Though the author has visited several parts of Africa, he has never made a journey to the Equatorial Regions of the Dark Continent; consequently he has been placed under greater obligations to other writers than in his preceding works, and the personal experiences of Frank and Fred in Central Africa were not those of the compiler of the narrative. But he has endeavored to maintain the vividness of the story by the introduction of incidents drawn from many books of African travel and exploration; he has sought to confine fiction to the narrowest bounds, and to construct an account of travel and adventure that should be true in every respect save in the individual characters portrayed.
Thomas Wallace Knox
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The Boy Travellers in the Far East
THOMAS W. KNOX
Illustrated
PREFACE
CONTENTS.
ILLUSTRATIONS
PREPARATIONS FOR THE JOURNEY.—FROM CAIRO TO KOROSKO.
LEAVING KOROSKO.—EARLY EXPLORERS OF THE NILE VALLEY.
FROM KOROSKO TO ABOO HAMED.—THE NILE AGAIN.—ADVENTURE WITH A CROCODILE.
BERBER AND SHENDY.—HUNTING THE HIPPOPOTAMUS.—TERRIBLE REVENGE OF AN ETHIOPIAN KING.
LIFE IN KHARTOUM.—DEPARTURE FOR GONDOKORO.
AMONG THE SHILLOOK NEGROES.—ARRIVAL AT FASHODA.—EXPLORERS OF THE NILE.
AN ANTELOPE HUNT.—GUINEA-WORMS, WHITE ANTS, AND GREAT SNAKES.
THE DINKAS AND BARIS.—GONDOKORO.—ANNEXATION TO EGYPT.
AN ELEPHANT HUNT.—MARCHING SOUTHWARD FROM GONDOKORO.
A FISHING EXCURSION.—ENCOUNTERING A HIPPOPOTAMUS.—THE COUNTRY OF THE NYAM-NYAMS.
ARRIVAL AT AFUDDO.—DIVISION OF ROUTES.—FRANK'S DEPARTURE.
DEPARTURE OF THE TWO EXPEDITIONS.—IN THE SHOOLI COUNTRY.—ATTACKED IN AN AMBUSCADE.
FRANK ON A HUNTING EXCURSION.—DRIVING THE PLAIN WITH FIRE.
ARRIVAL AT FATIKO.—THE MARCH CONTINUED.—FRANK'S ANTELOPE HUNT.
AN ELEPHANT HUNT.—CROSSING THE VICTORIA NILE.—ARRIVAL AT FOUEIRA.—KING RIONGA AND HIS PEOPLE.
THE ALBERT N'YANZA.—ACCOUNT OF ITS DISCOVERY.—INCIDENTS OF THE FIRST DAY'S VOYAGE.
A DAY ON AN ISLAND.—INCIDENTS OF HUNTING AND FISHING.—LAKE-DWELLINGS OF CENTRAL AFRICA.
DR. LIVINGSTONE AND HIS DISCOVERIES.
FROM THE ALBERT N'YANZA TO FOUEIRA.
DEPART FROM FOUEIRA.—INTERVIEW WITH KING RIONGA.—THE PLATEAU OF CENTRAL AFRICA.—EXPLORATIONS OF THE NIGER.
TRAVELS OF DR ROHLFS.—THE TSETSE-FLY.—THROUGH UNYORO.
THE MARCH THROUGH UGUNDA.—ARRIVAL AT KING M'TESA'S PALACE.
CEREMONIES AT M'TESA'S COURT.—THE TELEPHONE IN AFRICA.
AT M'TESA'S COURT.—VISIT TO THE VICTORIA N'YANZA.—ASTONISHING THE KING.
AN EXCURSION ON THE VICTORIA N'YANZA.
RIPON FALLS.—THE OUTLET OF THE VICTORIA N'YANZA.
RETURN TO RUBAGA.—FAREWELL TO M'TESA.—VOYAGE DOWN THE VICTORIA N'YANZA.
THE ALEXANDRA NILE.—FRED'S DESCRIPTION OF THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA.
A DESCRIPTION OF SOUTH AFRICA.—ENGLISH COLONIES.—OSTRICH FARMING.
RESUMING THE MARCH.—MIRAMBO'S COUNTRY.—HUNTING ZEBRAS.—DESCRIPTION OF THE SOKO.
TO MIRAMBO'S CAPITAL.—STANLEY'S WORK ON THE LIVINGSTONE.
UNYAMYEMBE.—AMONG THE ARABS.—MARCHING TOWARD THE COAST.
INCIDENTS OF THE JOURNEY TO THE COAST.—CONCLUSION.
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