We have the pleasure of possessing, in the present more accurate statement, many new data and remarks on earlier accounts, though, doubtless, these will bring on a controversy, for the acrimony of which the Author has himself to blame. When, however, such sarcasm is directed in an instructive and legitimate manner, as that against D’Abbadie, in the convincing Appendix, (to which we must here draw attention, in order to understand the whole,) we cannot blame the Author, who has gained by toil and labour positive facts, for rendering them secure, as far as possible, against malicious presumptions and arrogant hypotheses. Science, moreover, is always the gainer by these discussions.
The annexed Map has been newly constructed, by Mr. H. Mahlmann, with his usual scrupulous accuracy, from the manuscript of the Journal, and the notes of the Traveller. Though, under the present circumstances, it leaves much here and there to be desired, yet by comparing it with that of Bimbashi D’Arnaud’s, executed and published at Paris in 1843, it makes a very useful addition to the Work. Still much instructive elucidation and enlargement of knowledge might be gained by a complete description and pictorial representation of the wonderful collection of Natural Productions, Works of Art, Weapons, Household Utensils, and other objects, hitherto the only one we possess. In the annexed engraving we give a specimen of these curiosities, collected by Mr. Werne’s care, on his journey to Bari, and afterwards incorporated by him, in addition to his Collection of Natural History, with the Royal Museum of this city, where they are to be viewed, to the number of one hundred and twenty-six different articles.
C. Ritter.
Berlin, July 27, 1848.
CONTENTS
OF
THE FIRST VOLUME.
| [CHAPTER I.] | |
| PAGE | |
| INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER | 1 |
| [CHAPTER II.] | |
| COMPOSITION OF THE EXPEDITION. — AHMEDBASHA; HIS CHARACTER. — SCENE BETWEEN MOHAMMED ALI AND SHEIKHSULIMAN OF ROSSIÈRES. — SLAVE TRADE AND SLAVE HUNTS. — SULIMANEFFENDI, THE SICILIAN POISONER. — DEATH OF MUSTAPHA BEY. —VAISSIÈRE AND THE EUROPEANS IN EGYPT. — PUCKLER MUSCAU. — AHMEDBASHA’S WIFE. — DESCRIPTION OF KHARTÙM. — BLUE AND WHITE NILE. —DEPARTURE OF THE EXPEDITION. | 29 |
| [CHAPTER III.] | |
| VILLAGE OF OMDURMAN. — MOHAMMED ELNIMR, THE BURNER OF ISMAIL, MOHAMMED ALI’S SON. — MEROE AND THEPYRAMIDS. — SENNAAR. — WANT OF DISCIPLINE ON BOARD THE VESSELS. —SCENERY OF THE RIVER. — TOMB OF MOHA-BEY. — DIFFERENT ARAB TRIBES.— HILLS OF AULI MANDERA AND BRAME. — SULIMAN KASHEF. — REMARKS ONHIS GOVERNMENT. — AQUATIC PLANTS. — THE SHILLUKS AND BARÀBRAS. —LITTLE FEAST OF BAIRAM. — CHARACTERS OF THIBAUT, THE FRENCHCOLLECTOR, AND OF ARNAUD AND SABATIER, THE ENGINEERS. — HONEY. —MANDJERA OR DUCKS. — FEÏZULLA CAPITAN’S EPILEPTIC FITS. — WOODEDISLANDS. — THE HEDJAZI. | 67 |
| [CHAPTER IV.] | |
| MONOTONOUS SCENERY. — CULTIVATION OFDATE-PALMS. — EL AES. — BOUNDARY OF THE TURKISH DOMINIONS. —REPUBLIC OF APES. — HUSSEIN AGU’S FAVOURITE MONKEY. — CRUELTY OFEMIR BEY. — ADVENTURE WITH A CROCODILE. — BELIEF OF THE TURKS INTHE TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS. — LIEUT. ABD. ELLIAB, THE DEVOTEE. —THE TAILORING PROPENSITIES OF FEÏZULLA CAPITAN. — A “FANTASIE.” —FEÏZULLA’S INTEMPERANCE. — GUINEA-FOWLS. — ABU SEID. — DESCRIPTIONOF WATER PLANTS, AND GRAPES PECULIAR TO THE WHITE NILE. — THEAMBAK-TREE. — GEBL DINKU. — ABDURIECKMAN, CHIEF OF THE SHILLUKS,AND SULIMAN KASHEF’S BARBARITY. — HIPPOPOTAMIA, AND CURIOUSSUPERSTITION OF THE SAILORS. — THE DINKAS AND THE SHILLUKS. — THELOTUS. — MOUNT DEFAFAUNGH. — TAMARIND TREES. — THE TAILOR-CAPTAIN,AND INSUBORDINATION OF HIS CREW. — FIRST APPEARANCE OF GNATS. | 96 |
| [CHAPTER V.] | |
| A STORM. — TOKULS OR HUTS OF THESHILLUKS. — THE TALLE, A SPECIES OF MIMOSA. — THE GEÏLID. — THEBAMIE. — UEKA. — WILD RICE. — OMMOS. — THE SHILLUKS A LARGER NATIONTHAN THE FRENCH! — IMMENSE POPULATION ON THE BANKS OF THE WHITE ARMOF THE NILE. — THE HABAS OR FORESTS. — A TURKISH JEST! — LEECHES. —DISEMBARKATION ON THE LAND OF THE SHILLUKS. — DESCRIPTION OF THETOKULS. — CONDUCT OF THE BEDOUINS TOWARDS THE PILGRIMS TO MECCA. —THE MURHAKA. — MANNER OF CATCHING GAZELLES. —SÜRTUKS OR CANOES OFTHE SHILLUKS. — REFUSAL OF THE KING OF THIS NATION TO VISIT THEVESSELS. — TREATMENT OF HIS AMBASSADORS AT KHARTÙM. — THE BAOBÀBTREE. — DHELLÈB PALMS. — WINDINGS OF THE RIVER. — OSTRICHES. —HILLS OF ASHES OF THE DINKAS. — RIVER SOBÀB. | 131 |
| [CHAPTER VI.] | |
| ANT-HILLS. — TRIBE OF THE NUÈHRS. —THE JENGÄHS. — KAWASS OR SERJEANT MÀRIAN FROM MOUNT HABILA. —DESCRIPTION OF HIM. — TOKULS OF THE JENGÄHS. — FIRST APPEARANCE OFGAZELLES. — THE RIVER N’JIN-N’JIN. — WORSHIP OF TREES. — THE GALLASOR STEPPES. — BLACK COLOUR OF THE RIVER. — NEW SPECIESOF PLANTS. —THE BITTERN AND IBIS. — “BAUDA” OR GNATS: THEIR DREADFUL STING. —LIEUT. ABD-ELLIÀB’S CRUELTY TO HIS FEMALE SLAVE. — THE TOKRURI ORPILGRIM. — CURIOUS SUPERSTITION WITH REGARD TO THESE MEN. —MOUNTAIN CHAIN OF NUBA. — PAPYRUS ANTIQUUS OR GIGANTIC RUSH. —GAZELLE RIVER. — DEAD FISH. — DIFFERENT SPECIES OF SNAKES. — ARABICSONGS AND FESTIVITY ON BOARD. — JENGÄHS SUPPOSED TO BE WORSHIPPERSOF THE MOON: THEIR MANNER OF TATOOING. — STRIFE BETWEEN THESOLDIERS AND SAILORS. — ANTIPATHY OF THE FRENCH ENGINEERS TO EACHOTHER. — LOCUSTS. — TORMENT OF THE GNATS: THEIR VARIOUS SPECIES. —BARBARITY OF THE TURKS ON THE FORMER EXPEDITION. — MARVELLOUSSTORIES OF THE ARABS. — HATRED OF THE NATIVES TO THE TURKS. | 153 |
| [CHAPTER VII.] | |
| QUESTION OF THE NAVIGATION OF THENILE. — KING OF THE SNAKES. — OFFERINGS TO HIM BY THE ARABS. —KURDISTAN. — MÀRIAN’S AUTHORITY OVER THE NEGROES. — THE TAILORCAPTAIN AGAIN. — DHELLÈB-PALMS. — WANTON DESTRUCTION BY THE CREW. —ELEPHANTS: WHITE BIRDS ON THEIR BACKS. — POISON-TREES. — THE NATIONOF THE KÈKS: CUSTOMS AND DESCRIPTION OF THEM. — FLESH OF CAMELS ANDGIRAFFES. — MERISSA PREPARED FROM ABRÈ. — THIBAUT DISCOVERED TO BEAN OLD ACQUAINTANCE. — RECOLLECTIONS OF GREECE. — WILD CUCUMBERS. —FEÏZULLA CAPITAN’S DRINKING PROPENSITIES. | 186 |
| [CHAPTER VIII.] | |
| ARNAUD’S IGNORANCE AND SELIM CAPITAN’SCUNNING. — HATRED OF THE THREE FRENCHMEN TO EACH OTHER. — THEENDERÀB TREE. — THE POISON TREE HARMLESS. — REMARKS ON THE LAKES INCONNEXION WITH THE WHITE NILE. — THE WOOD OF THE AMBAK TREE. —FONDNESS OF THE ARABS FOR NICK-NAMES. — THE AUTHOR DEFENDED FROMGNATS BY A CAT. — INTERVIEW WITH A KÈK. — HUSSEÏN AGA’S DRINKINGBOUTS WITH FEÏZULLA CAPITAN. — DESCRIPTION OF A SUN-RISE. — VISITOF THE KÈKS. — SULIMAN KASHEF AND THE LOOKING-GLASS. | 221 |
| [CHAPTER IX.] | |
| TURTLE-DOVES. — DESERTION OF BLACKSOLDIERS AND PURSUIT OF THEM. — INTERVIEW WITH NATIVE WOMEN. —GIGANTIC STATURE OF THE KÈKS. — THEIR PASSION FORGLASS BEADS. — FEÏZULLA CAPITAN’S QUARREL WITH A SUBALTERN OFFICER.— SYLVESTER’S EVE. — A “HAPPY NEW YEAR.” — VILLAGE OF BONN. — WANTOF SHADE IN THE FORESTS. — CURIOUS TATOOING AND CUSTOMS OF THENATIVES. — A WOMAN’S VILLAGE. — MODESTY OF THE WOMEN. — MEAT BROTH.— REPORT OF HOSTILE INTENTIONS OF NEGROES. — FRENCH EXPEDITION TOEGYPT UNDER NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. | 250 |
| [CHAPTER X.] | |
| SHEIKH DIM. — CLUBS OF THE KÈKS ANDCAPS SIMILAR TO THOSE OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN PRIESTS. — RAPACITYOF THE CREW. — TRIBUTARY LAKES. — HEIGHT OF THE SHORES. — THE TRIBEOF THE BUNDURIÀLS. — DUSHÒÏL, THE KÈK, ON BOARD SELIM CAPITAN’SVESSEL. — HIS SIMPLICITY. — TOBACCO PLANTATIONS. — THE GREAT SHEIKHOF THE BUNDURIÀLS. — FISHING IMPLEMENTS OF THIS TRIBE. — THEIRTOKULS, AND GIGANTIC SIZE OF THE MEN. — ANTELOPES OF THE ARIELSPECIES. — APATHY OF THE CREW, AND INDIFFERENCE AT THE LOSS OFTHEIR COMPANIONS. — PHILOSOPHY OF A NATIVE. — SINGULAR CONTRASTBETWEEN THE FEATURES OF THE SHEIKHS AND THE OTHER NEGROES. — NATIONOF THE BOHRS. — THIBAUT’S BARTER. — REED-STRAW ON FIRE, AND DANGERTO THE VESSELS. — FATALISM OF THE TURKS. — GREETING OF THE NATIVES:THEIR SONG OF WELCOME. | 285 |
| [CHAPTER XI.] | |
| NARROW ESCAPE FROM CROCODILES. —ILLNESS OF THE AUTHOR. — DESCRIPTION OF THE ELEPHANT-TREE. — CUSTOMOF MAKING BEDS ON ASHES VERY ANCIENT. — SULIMAN KASHEF SHOOTS ACROCODILE. — STRONG SMELL OF MUSK FROM THESE ANIMALS. — THE TRIBEOF THE ELLIÀBS. — WAR DANCES. — CHARGE AGAINST ARNAUD. — INJURY TOVESSELS BY HIPPOPOTAMI. — SULIMAN KASHEF’S CIRCASSIAN SLAVE. —CULTIVATED LAND. — THE FELATI. — APPEARANCE OF A MOUNTAIN. — TRIBEOF THE TSHISÈRRS. — STRATA OF THE SHORE. — RICINUS PLANTS. — FOURLOWER INCISORS WANTING TO THE NATIVES ON THE SHORES OF THE WHITENILE. — AGILITY AND STRENGTH OF THE NEGROES. — MORE MOUNTAINSAPPEAR. | 319 |
EXPEDITION
TO DISCOVER THE SOURCES
OF THE
WHITE NILE.