A travel journal by George Melly recounting a family tour through Egypt and Nubia to Khartoum, at the meeting point of the Blue and White Niles. It records observations from a journey few travellers had made and offers a personal glimpse of the region in the early 1850s.
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KHARTOUM, AND THE BLUE AND WHITE NILES. VOL. I. Khartoum and the Niles. London, Colburn & Co. 1851. KHARTOUM, AND THE BLUE AND WHITE NILES. BY GEORGE MELLY. [Illustration: dragomen] Second Edition. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: COLBURN AND CO., PUBLISHERS, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. 1852. LONDON: Printed by Schulze and Co., 13, Poland Street. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
[Decoration]
VOL. I.
KHARTOUM AND THE NILES
Frontispiece.
DRAGOMEN
Vignette.
MAP OF NUBIA
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VOL. II.
IPSAMBOUL
Frontispiece.
THE AUTHOR
Vignette.
PREFACE.
Tƒŧ Work now presented to the public, is nothing more than a transcript from a Journal kept by the Author during a tour in Egypt and Nubia, (undertaken in company with other members of his family) only a few months ago. The peculiarity of the relations of
Egypt and the Porte at the present moment, affords the Author the best excuse he can put forward for appearing in print, and he hopes that observations so recently made over a very interesting portion of the dominions of the Pasha of Egypt, by a perfectly disinterested spectator, may be though not unworthy the attention of the reader.
It is only here necessary to add, that we succeeded in penetrating
Nubia as far as Khartoum, the place of junction of the Blue and White
Niles, where few travellers had preceded us, and to which town no ladies had ever penetrated before.
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