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Title: Exploration of the Nile tributaries of Abyssinia : the sources, supply, and overflow of the Nile; the country, people, customs, etc. Interspersed with highly exciting adventures of the author among elephants, lions, buffaloes, hippopotami, rhinoceros, etc., accompanied by expert native sword hunters
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821-1893 Gage, William Leonard, 1832-1889
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Publisher: Hartford : O. D. Case & co.
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Character of TheodoreâTheodores Chief TraitsâTheodoresConquestâLetter to VictoriaâThe First CaptivesâEfforts torelease the CaptivesâFailureâEffect on EnglandâUltimatumsent to TheodoreâNapier and the WarâConclusion. Page 591â606. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS From Original Sketches hy Sir S. W. Bakek. PAGE THE WHIRLPOOL AT THE ROYAN JUNCTION . , Frontispiece GAZELLE STALKING IN THE DESERT 40 FIRST RUSH OF THE GIRAFFES 40 THE DESERT JOURNEY 120 THE SEROOT FLY 204 THE BAYARD . 232 THE COOR 232 THE BAGGAR 232 QUARREL OYER A HIPPOPOTAMUS ........ 272 ARABS ATTACKING THE ELEPHANT WITH THE SWORD . . 344 HEAD OF THE BLACK RHINOCEROS 344 THE RHINOCEROS HUNT. TAHER SHERIFF LEADS . . . 380 RHINOCEROS DISPERSING THE PARTY 408 GAME RETURNING PROM THE RIVER 408 HARPOONING THE CROCODILE 412 NATIVES CAPTURING THE HIPPOPOTAMUS ...... 416 THE DYING LIONESS 436 CLOSE QUARTERS WITH THE LION 440 THE SWORD WINS THE DAY . 456 RHINOCEROS ATTACKING THE HORSE 504 THE RHINOCEROS RIDDEN TO BAY 512
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EXPLORATION OF THE NILE TRIBUTARIES OF ABTSSmiA. CHAPTER I ABOVE THE CATARACT. Without troubling the public with a description ofthat portion of the Nile to the north of the firstcataract, or with a detailed account of the Egyptianruins, which have been visited by a thousand tour-ists, I will commence by a few extracts from myjournal, written at the close of the boat voyagefrom Cairo:â May 8, 1861.âNo air. The thermometer 104Fahr.; a stifling heat Becalmed, we have been lyingthe entire day below the ruins of Philse. These arethe most imposing monuments of the Nile, owing totheir peculiar situation upon a rocky island that com-mands the passage of the river above the cataract.The banks of the stream are here hemmed in byranges of hills from 100 to 250 feet high; these are 24 STERILITY. (CHAP. i. entirely destitute of soil, being composed of enor-mous masses of red granite, piled block upon block,the.rude masonry of Nature that has walled in theriver. The hollows between the hills a

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