Ella Hurjter. 
iiladia. • 
TEAYELS m CENTRAL AFRICA, 
AND 
EXPLORATION OF WESTERN NILE TRIBUTARIES. 
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"OETHERICK, after four years^ service (as mining engineer) 
spent in a fruitless search for coal in Egypt^ Arabia Petrsea^ 
and Nubia^ in the employment of His Highness Mahommed Ali 
Pacba^ and bis subsequent establishment as a merchant in Kor- 
dofan^ trader on the White Nile^ and Her Britannic Majesty^s 
Consular Agent in that portion of Central Africa subject to the 
Government of the Viceroy of Egypt^ obtained leave of absence 
from the Foreign Office to visit his native land. His object was 
to visit his friends and to purchase a number of firearms and large 
elephant rifles wherewith to pursue^ with greater advantage, his 
sport and trade on the White Nile. 
At the urgent request of many friends, he, in 1861, published an 
account of his travels in a book entitled Egypt, the Soudan, and 
Central Africa; and having been honoured with Her Majesty^s 
commission as Consul for Central Africa, he married, and pre- 
pared to leave for his post, and also to fulfil his mission as envoy for 
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