ISBN: 9781458994288

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: We marched on almost fainting with the heat, till nearly set of sun, without halting, when we arrived at the encampment of the Pasha; it was on our side [ i.e. the west side] of the Nile, which here runs in its natural direction from south to north. At five or six days march below it, it turns to the Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: We marched on almost fainting with the heat, till nearly set of sun, without halting, when we arrived at the encampment of the Pasha; it was on our side [ i.e. the west side] of the Nile, which here runs in its natural direction from south to north. At five or six days march below it, it turns to the left and describes, from above its turning point and Dongola, a track something resembling the following figure- which is the reason why, in coming up the river from Dongola, we found it running from the northeast. The length of this curious bend in the river Nile, never known to the civilized world before the expedition of Ismael Pasha, may be about two hundred and fifty miles; the greater part of it all rocks and rapids. The journey from our last encampment on the third cataract to the country of the Berbers, following the direction of the river, takes eight days of forced marches, but that by the desert, i.e. across the peninsula formed by the course of the river between the country of the Berbers and our last encampment, takes four days forced march. The road from the place where we arrived at the river (in coming from the desert) up the country of Berber, lies generally on the edge of the desert, and outside of the fertile land lying between the river and the desert; of consequence we were rarely led to its banks so as to ascertain its course and appearance. But from several points where the road approaches the river, I observed that it winded continually, and contained many beautifulislands, some of them, particularly that named "Sibne," cultivated like gardens. I also observed that the river, at the lower extremity of the country of the Berbers, is much interrupted by rocks, and I have learned, since my arrival, that between the third cataract and the camp, the Books, Fiction~~General, Narrative-of-the-Expedition-to-Dongola-and-Sennaar~~George-Bethune-English, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781458994288

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1823 edition. Excerpt: ...they having fasted since we left El Medina. We were obliged to look among the rocks for shelter from the sun, each one arranging himself as well as he could to eat durra bread and drink warm water, and sleep as soundly as possible. During the course of last night, we fell in with a caravan coming from Assuan; we pressed round them to buy something to eat, and asked for dates, and flour to make bread, but they had nothing of the kind that they could afford to part with. We staid at the rock before mentioned till the Which we found to be the case till we came within fifteen hours march of the Nile. t Out of the twenty-two camels that we had commenced our march with from Berber, only twelve reached the river. middle of the afternoon. On awaking from sleep I observed two of the Arabs of our caravan busily employed about our guide. They were a long time engaged in frizzing and plaiting his hair, and finished the operation by pouring over it a bowl full of melted mutton suet, which made his head quite white. I asked for the meaning of this operation at this time; they told me that we should be at the river to-morrow morning, and that our guide was adorning himself to see and salute his friends there. He appeared to be highly satisfied with the efforts of his hair-dressers to make him look decent, and it must be confessed that he made a yery buckish appearance. As soon as our guide had finished his toilette, he mounted his dromedary and took his post in front, and we set forward. We marched all night without stopping, which was necessary, as our water was nearly spent, but which distressed greatly that part of our caravan who had no beast to ride.t These wretched men had hitherto accom This was occasioned by the heat of the sun and the dryness... George Bethune English, Books, History, A narrative of the expedition to Dongola and Sennaar; under the command of His Excellence Ismael Pasha, undertaken by order of His Books>History, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781458994288

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1823 edition. Excerpt: ...they having fasted since we left El Medina. We were obliged to look among the rocks for shelter from the sun, each one arranging himself as well as he could to eat durra bread and drink warm water, and sleep as soundly as possible. During the course of last night, we fell in with a caravan coming from Assuan; we pressed round them to buy something to eat, and asked for dates, and flour to make bread, but they had nothing of the kind that they could afford to part with. We staid at the rock before mentioned till the Which we found to be the case till we came within fifteen hours march of the Nile. t Out of the twenty-two camels that we had commenced our march with from Berber, only twelve reached the river. middle of the afternoon. On awaking from sleep I observed two of the Arabs of our caravan busily employed about our guide. They were a long time engaged in frizzing and plaiting his hair, and finished the operation by pouring over it a bowl full of melted mutton suet, which made his head quite white. I asked for the meaning of this operation at this time; they told me that we should be at the river to-morrow morning, and that our guide was adorning himself to see and salute his friends there. He appeared to be highly satisfied with the efforts of his hair-dressers to make him look decent, and it must be confessed that he made a yery buckish appearance. As soon as our guide had finished his toilette, he mounted his dromedary and took his post in front, and we set forward. We marched all night without stopping, which was necessary, as our water was nearly spent, but which distressed greatly that part of our caravan who had no beast to ride.t These wretched men had hitherto accom This was occasioned by the heat of the sun and the dryness... George Bethune English, Books, History, A narrative of the expedition to Dongola and Sennaar; under the command of His Excellence Ismael Pasha, undertaken by order of His Books>History <

ISBN: 1458994287

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