LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,
Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.
1849.
CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.
| [CHAPTER I.] | |
| PAGE | |
| SLEEPING TOKULS OR BARNS. — CRUELTYAND LICENTIOUSNESS OF THE TURKS. — ARNAUD AND SELIM CAPITAN’S FEAROF THE NATIVES. — NEGROES SHOT BY THE TURKS. — CONDUCT OF THENATIVES. — RED MEN. — ARNAUD’S MADNESS. — FEAR OF THE NEGROES ATFIRE-ARMS. — VISIT OF A CHIEF AND HIS SON. — TOBACCO AND SHEEP. —MOUNT KORÈK. — NATION OF BARI. — VISIT OF THE BROTHER ANDSON-IN-LAW OF THE KING. — CHAIN OF MOUNTAINS. | 1 |
| [CHAPTER II.] | |
| RECEPTION OF ENVOYS FROM KING LÀKONO.— DESCRIPTION OF THEM. — RELIGION OF THE BARIS: THEIR ARMS ANDORNAMENTS. — PANIC CREATED AMONG THE NATIVES AT THE EXPLOSION OFCANNON. — LIVELY SCENE ON SHORE. — COLOURED WOMEN. — ARRIVAL OFKING LÀKONO AND SUITE. — HIS INTERVIEW WITH THE COMMANDERS: HISDRESS. — THE NATIONAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF BARI. — PRESENTS TOKING LÀKONO, AND HIS DEPARTURE. | 26 |
| [CHAPTER III.] | |
| MIMOSAS AND TAMARIND-TREES. —DIFFERENT SPECIES. — DURRA AND CREEPING BEANS. — RELIGION OF THEETHIOPIANS. — SECOND VISIT OF LÀKONO. — THE CROWN-PRINCE TSHOBÈ. —PARTICULARS OF THECOUNTRIES OF BARI AND BERRI. — DESCRIPTION OF LÀKONO’S FAVOURITESULTANA. — MOUNTAINS IN THE VICINITY OF BARI: THEIR FORM ANDDISTANCE. — ISLAND OF TSHÀNKER. — REMARKS ON LÀKONO’S LEGISLATIONAND CONDUCT. — THE NJAM-NJAM, OR CANNIBALS. — CUSTOMS AND ARMS OFTHE NATIVES. — THE TROPICAL RAINS. | 50 |
| [CHAPTER IV.] | |
| KING LÀKONO’S PRIDE. — BEER KNOWN TOTHE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. — BAR OF ROCKS. — WAR-DANCE OF THE NATIVES.— DETERMINATION OF THE TURKS TO RETURN, AND DISAPPOINTMENT OF THEAUTHOR. — COMMENCEMENT OF THE RETURN VOYAGE. — REPUBLICANS IN THEKINGDOM OF BARI. — VISIT OF THE FRENCHMEN TO MOUNT KORÈK. — REASONOF THE AUTHOR’S AVERSION TO ARNAUD. — CONDUCT OF VAISSIÈRE, ANDSCENE IN HIS DIVAN. — CULTIVATION OF COTTON AT BARI. — APATHY OFFEÏZULLA-CAPITAN AND THE CREW. — SUPERIORITY OF MAN TO WOMAN IN ANATIVE STATE. — WATCH-HOUSES. | 76 |
| [CHAPTER V.] | |
| RIVER BUFFALOES. — COMICAL APPEARANCEOF THE NATIVES. — WILLOWS. — SPECIES OF STRAND-SNIPES. — MODESTY OFTHE WOMEN, AND THEIR APRONS. — THE LIÈNNS. — ORNAMENTS OF THISTRIBE: THEIR TOKULS. — THE SERIBA OR ENCLOSURE TO THE HUTS. —ENORMOUS ELEPHANT’S TOOTH. — LUXURIANCE OF THE SOIL. — THE COUNTRYOF BAMBER. — DESCRIPTION OF THE NATIVES. — MANNER OF CATCHINGELEPHANTS. — ROYAL CRANES. — SPLENDID BARTER. — TRIBE OF THE BUKOS.— STOICISM OF AN OLD NATIVE. — SLAVES. — HIPPOPOTAMI ANDCROCODILES. — THE TSHIÈRRS. — THE ELLIÀBS AND BÒHRS. — DESCRIPTIONOF THE FORMER TRIBE: THEIR WAR-DANCE. | 102 |
| [CHAPTER VI.] | |
| EXAMINATION OF AN ARM OF THE NILE. —FORESTS ON THE BANKS. — PRICE OFFERED IN ENGLAND FOR A LIVEHIPPOPOTAMUS. — THESE ANIMALS RARELY MET WITH IN EGYPT. — THELIÈNNS. — ROPES MADE FROM THE LEAVES OF THE DOME-PALM. — UÈKA. —CHARACTER AND DESCRIPTION OF THE LIÈNNS. — THE EMEDDI-TREE. — DÖBKER-TREE. —COTTON-TREES. — THE TSHIÈRRS. — TRIBES OF THE BODSHOS ANDKARBORAHS. — LABYRINTHS OF THE WHITE STREAM. — BARTER WITH THEKARBORÀHS: THEIR DRESS, ARMS, ORNAMENTS, ETC. — MOUNT NERKANJIN. —ISLAND OF TUI. — THE KOKIS. — CONTEST WITH HIPPOPOTAMI. —CROCODILES’ EGGS. — HOSTILITY OF THE TSHIÈRRS TO THE ELLIÀBS. —EBONY CLUBS. — THE BÒHRS: THEIR SONGS, ORNAMENTS, ETC. — ANT-HILLS.— “IRG-EL-MOJE” OR WATER-ROOT, A SPECIES OF VEGETABLE. — VETCHES. —THE ANDURÀB OR ENDERÀB-TREE. — THE DAKUIN-TREE. — A SOLDIER STABBEDBY A NATIVE. — ANTIQUITY OF DUNG-FIRES. | 133 |
| [CHAPTER VII.] | |
| THE BÒHR “JOI”: HIS TREATMENT ON BOARDTHE VESSEL: HIS ESCAPE. — WOMEN’S VILLAGE. — FELT CAPS. — SONGS OFTHE BÒHRS. — TUBERS SIMILAR TO POTATOES. — THE BUNDURIÀLS. — THETUTUIS AND KÈKS. — AN ELEPHANT ATTACKED AND KILLED. — TASTE OF THEFLESH OF THIS ANIMAL. — CHEATING OF THE NATIVES IN BARTER. — WINTERTOKULS OR WOMEN’S HUTS. — MANNER OF MAKING A BURMA ORCOOKING-VESSEL. — “BAUDA” AGAIN. — FEÏZULLA-CAPITAN’S INDUSTRY INSEWING. — THE KÈKS LIVE BY FISHING. — DESCRIPTION OF THE WOMEN. —SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO THE VESSEL. — OSTRICHES AND APES. — FOGS ON THEWHITE STREAM. — WATCH-TOWERS. — SALE SHOOTS A GIGANTIC CRANE: ISPUNISHED. — THE NUÈHRS. | 169 |
| [CHAPTER VIII.] | |
| NUÈHRS. — ORNAMENTS. — MANNERS OF THEWOMEN. — THE MEN. — CURIOUS CUSTOM OF DRESSING THE HAIR, ANDSTAINING THEMSELVES. — VISIT OF A CHIEF. — SPEARS USED INSTEAD OFKNIVES. — SINGULAR WAY OF MAKING ATONEMENT, ETC. — WE HEAR ACCOUNTSOF OUR BLACK DESERTERS. — BOWS AND QUIVERS SIMILAR TO THOSEREPRESENTED IN THE HIEROGLYPHICS. — THE TURKS INDULGENT IN ONERESPECT. — MOUNT TICKEM OR MORRE. — TRACES OF ANIMAL-WORSHIP AMONGTHE NUÈHRS. — ARNAUD’S CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF A LAKE (AND GASCONADES).— ADVICE TO FUTURE TRAVELLERS ON THE WHITE NILE. — SWALLOWS. —MEANS OF DEFENCE AGAINST GNATS DISCOVERED. — THE SHILLUKS AGAIN. —QUESTION OF THE CONTINUAL ALTERATIONS IN THE APPEARANCE OF THENILE. — GUINEA-FOWLS. — GIRAFFES. — BLACK WASPS. — TURTLE-DOVES. —OUR AUTHOR CAUGHT IN A THORN-BUSH. — FABLED LUXURIANCEOF THE PLANTS IN THE TROPICAL REGIONS. — VIEW FROM A HILL. — MANNEROF CATCHING FISH AMONG THE NATIVES. — THE SOBÀT RIVER. — THEINUNDATIONS OF THE NILE CONSIDERED. | 203 |
| [CHAPTER IX.] | |
| ROYAL CRANES. — SCRUPLES OFFEÏZULLA-CAPITAN. — COMPOSITION OF THE SHORES. — DESCRIPTION OF THEDHELLÈB-PALM AND ITS FRUIT. — FORM OF EGYPTIAN PILLARS DERIVED FROMTHIS TREE. — DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EGYPTIAN AND GREEK ARCHITECTURE. —DESCRIPTION OF THE SUNT-TREE. — DEATH OF AN ARABIAN SOLDIER. —VISIT OF A MEK OR CHIEF. — DANGEROUS RENCONTRE WITH A LION ONSHORE. — PURSUIT OF THIS BEAST BY THE AUTHOR AND SULIMAN KASHEFWITH HIS MEN. — FEAR OF THE NATIVES AT THE TURKS. — PLUNDER OFTHEIR TOKULS BY THE CREW. — BREAD-CORN OF THE DINKAS. — ANTELOPEHUNT. — DIFFERENT SPECIES OF THESE ANIMALS. — IMMENSE HERDS ON THEBANKS OF THE WHITE NILE. — LIONS AGAIN. — BAD CONDITION OF THEVESSELS. | 237 |
| [CHAPTER X.] | |
| VARIOUS SPECIES OF GRASSES. —FORMATION OF THE SHORES. — WATER-FOWLS. — AN ANTELOPE OF THE TETESPECIES, NOW AT BERLIN. — STRATA OF THE SHORE. — THE SOBÀT RIVER:THE MAIN ROAD FOR THE NATIVES FROM THE HIGHLANDS TO THE PLAINS. —OBSERVATIONS ON THE COURSE OF THE NILE AND SOBÀT. — A THOUSANDANTELOPES SEEN MOVING TOGETHER! — WILD BUFFALOES, LIONS, ANDHYÆNAS. — AFRICA, THE CRADLE OF THE NEGRO RACE. — THESHUDDER-EL-FAS: DESCRIPTION OF THIS SHRUB. — ARNAUD’S CHARLATANRY.— OUR AUTHOR FEARED BY THE FRENCHMEN. — ARNAUD AND SABATIER’SJOURNALS: THE MARVELLOUS STORIES OF THE FORMER. — THIBAUT’SJEALOUSY. — VISIT OF A SHIEKH OF THE SHILLUKS. — FEAR OF THE TURKSAT THESE PEOPLE. — SULIMAN KASHEF PURSUED BY A LION. | 257 |
| [CHAPTER XI.] | |
| THE SHILLUKS, A VITIATED PEOPLE. —CAUSE OF THE VIOLENT RAINS IN INNER AFRICA. — REFUSAL OF THE SULTANOF THE SHILLUKS TO VISIT THE VESSELS. — DESCRIPTION OF A SPECIESOF GRASS. — BARTERWITH THE SHILLUKS. — CONQUEST OF THEIR COUNTRY NOT DIFFICULT. —FORM OF THEIR BOATS. — AMBAK RAFTS. — IRON RARELY FOUND AMONG THEEGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES. — WORSHIP OF TREES BY THE SHILLUKS: THEIRRELIGIOUS RITES. — STARS IN THE SOUTHERN REGIONS OF AFRICA. —SHILLUK WOMEN: THEIR DRESS. — REFUSAL OF THE MEN TO SELL THEIRARMS. — THE BAGHÀRAS: THEIR DRESS, ETC. — RE-APPEARANCE OF THEISLAND PARKS, AND MOUNT DEFAFAÙNGH. — ASCENT OF THIS MOUNTAIN, ANDFULL DESCRIPTION OF IT. — THE DINKAS: THEIR LOVE FOR OLD CUSTOMS. —DESERTION OF TWO DINKA SOLDIERS, AND REFUSAL OF THEIR COUNTRYMEN TOGIVE THEM UP. — SHEIKHS SEIZED, AND DESERTERS RECOVERED. | 280 |
| [CHAPTER XII.] | |
| LANDING IN THE TERRITORY OF THEBAGHÀRAS: DESCRIPTION OF THEM: THEIR HOSTILITY TO THE DINKAS, ANDMARAUDING EXCURSIONS INTO THE COUNTRY OF THIS TRIBE. — CURIOUSPOSITION IN WHICH THE LATTER TRIBE STAND. — MOUNT N’JEMATI:EXAMINATION OF IT. — A SHRUB-ACACIA. — APPEARANCE OF ELEPHANTS ANDLIONS. — GEOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE MOUNTAINS. — MONKEYS APPEARAGAIN. — MOHAMMED ALI UNDER THE FORM OF AN HIPPOPOTAMUS. — ISLANDOF ABU. — THE HASSARIES. — A HIPPOPOTAMUS KILLED BY SULIMAN KASHEF.— SHORES OF THE NILE COMPARED TO THOSE OF THE MISSISSIPPI. — ELAES. — THE KABBABISH ARABS. — HEDJASI. — THE MOUNTAIN GROUP OFARASKOLL. — CONDUCT OF SULIMAN KASHEF TO A SHIEKH AND ARABS. — BESTWAY TO TREAT THE TURKS. — THE DOWNS: THEIR NATURE. — INTELLIGENCEOF THE DEATH OF SOLIMAN EFFENDI AND VAISSIÈRE. — APPROACH TOKHARTÙM. — ARRIVAL, AND MEETING OF OUR AUTHOR WITH HIS BROTHER. —CONCLUSION. | 309 |
| [APPENDIX] |
EXPEDITION
TO DISCOVER THE SOURCES
OF THE
WHITE NILE.