KHARTOUM, AND THE BLUE AND WHITE NILES.
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VOL. I.
KHARTOUM, AND THE BLUE AND WHITE NILES.
BY GEORGE MELLY.
Second Edition.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON: COLBURN AND CO., PUBLISHERS, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. 1852.
LONDON: Printed by Schulze and Co., 13, Poland Street.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
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VOL. I.
KHARTOUM AND THE NILES Frontispiece.
DRAGOMEN Vignette.
MAP OF NUBIA To face page 237
VOL. II.
IPSAMBOUL Frontispiece.
THE AUTHOR Vignette.
PREFACE.
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The Work now presented to the public, is nothing more than a transcript from a Journal kept by the Author during a tour in Egypt and Nubia, (undertaken in company with other members of his family) only a few months ago. The peculiarity of the relations of Egypt and the Porte at the present moment, affords the Author the best excuse he can put forward for appearing in print, and he hopes that observations so recently made over a very interesting portion of the dominions of the Pasha of Egypt, by a perfectly disinterested spectator, may be though not unworthy the attention of the reader.
It is only here necessary to add, that we succeeded in penetrating Nubia as far as Khartoum, the place of junction of the Blue and White Niles, where few travellers had preceded us, and to which town no ladies had ever penetrated before.
LONDON, OCTOBER 5, 1851.
CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
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CHAPTER I.
The Adriatic — Alexandria — The Grand Square — Pompey’s Pillar 1 — English invaders — Egyptian Cemetery — Cleopatra’s Needles — Stroll through the streets — The Great Canal — The first pipe