CONTENTS. 
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 Nile 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 Nile—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—Ambatch Wood—Johann’s Sickness 
—Uses of Eish-skin—Johann dying—Johann’s Death—New 
Year—Shillook Villages—The Sobat River—Its Character— 
Balir Giraffe—Balir el Gazal—Observations—Corporal Richarn 
—Character of Bahr el Gazal—Peculiarity of River Sobat— 
Tediousness of Voyage—Bull Buffalo—Sali Achmet killed— 
His Burial—Eero city of the Buffalo—“The Clumsy” on the 
Styx — Current of White Nile — Eirst View of Natives — 
Joctian and his Wife—Charming Husband—Natron—Catch a 
Hippopotamus—“Perhaps it was his Uncle”—Real Turtle in 
Mock Hippopotamus—Richarn reduced to the Ranks—Arrival 
at the Zareeba—Fish spearing—The Kytch Tribe—White Ant 
Towers—Starvation in the Kytch Country—Destitution of the 
Natives—The Bull of the Herd—Men and Beasts in a bad 
Temper—Aboukooka—Austrian Mission Station—Sale of the 
Mission-House — Melancholy Fate of Baron Harnier -— The 
Aliab Tribes—Tumuli of Ashes—The Shir Tribe—The Lotus 
Harvest — Arrival at Gondokoro—Discharge Cargo. Page 1 — 59 
