Khartoum, and the Blue and White Niles, Vol. 2 (of 2)

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KHARTOUM,
AND
THE BLUE AND WHITE NILES.
VOL. II.
Ipsamboul.
London, Colburn & Co. 1851.
KHARTOUM,
AND
THE BLUE AND WHITE NILES.
BY GEORGE MELLY.
[Illustration: the author]
Second Edition.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
COLBURN AND CO., PUBLISHERS,
GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.
1852.
LONDON:
Printed by Schulze and Co., 13, Poland Street.
CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

CHAPTER I.

Preparations for a start — Camel-riding — Our encampment —

Partridges — Temple at Samneh — A jackall hunt — Eagles —

Picturesque country — Alkaline hot springs

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CHAPTER II.

Waking the Bedouins — Camels of the Nursery and Camels of the

Desert — Travelling — Nubian children — Dinner

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CHAPTER III.

Sakkut — desert vegetation — Arab village — A one-eyed Venus —

Dates at Derr Hamed — Nubian faith in European medicine —

Ruined temple — Gazelles — Lost in the Desert — Flowers and birds

— School

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CHAPTER IV.

Governor of Dongola — Embarkation of camels — Well in the desert

— Camel drivers — Iron fragments — Effects of cold on the

Bedouins — An Arab superstition — Verdure on the banks of the

Nile — Pastoral scene

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CHAPTER V.

Gebel Berkel — Antiquities — Appearance of the country — Hawks —

A pastoral scene — Illustrations of Holy Writ — Arab dwellings —

Wady Bashana — Bedouin revels — Christmas Day in the desert

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CHAPTER VI.

Khartoum — Introduction to the Governor, Latiffe Pasha — His extreme civility — The Regent’s Park — Hippopotamus —

Europeans settled at Khartoum — Interior of the desert — Collection of curiosities — The Governor of Berber — Bayoumi Effendi, and the

School at Khartoum

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