CONTENTS OF VOL. I. 
Introduction . 
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CHAPTER I. 
THE EXPEDITION. 
Programme— Start from Cairo—Arrive at Berber—Plan of Ex¬ 
ploration—The River Atbara—Abyssinian Affluents—Character 
of Rivers—Causes of Rile Inundations—Violence of the Rains 
—Arrival at Khartoum—Description of Khartoum—Egyptian 
Authorities—Taxes—The Soudan—Slave-Trade of the Soudan 
—Slave-Trade of the White Kile—System of Operations— 
Inhuman Proceedings—Negro Allies—Revelations of Slave- 
Trade—Distant Slave Markets —Prospects of the Expedition— 
Difficulties at the Outset—Opposition of the Egyptian Autho¬ 
rities—Preparations for Sailing—Johann Schmidt—Demand 
for Poll-Tax—Collision before starting—Amiable Boy - ! —The 
Departure—The Boy Osman—Banks of White Nile—Change 
in Disposition of Men—Character of the River—Misery of 
Scene—River Vegetation—AmbatchWood—Johann’s Sickness 
—Uses of Eish-skin—Johann dying—Johann’s Death—New 
Year—Shillook Villages—The Sobat River—Its Character— 
Bahr Giraffe—Bahr el Gazal—Observations—Corporal Richarn 
—Character of Bahr el Gazal-—Peculiarity of River Sobat— 
Tediousness of Voyage—Bull Buffalo—Sali Achmet killed— 
His Burial—Eerocity of the Buffalo—“The Clumsy” on the 
