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Samuel White Baker. Ismailia

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY

CHAPTER II. ENGLISH PARTY

CHAPTER III. THE RETREAT

CHAPTER IV. THE CAMP AT TEWFIKEEYAH

CHAPTER V. EXPLORATION OF THE OLD WHITE NILE

CHAPTER VI. THE START

CHAPTER VII. ARRIVAL AT GONDOKORO

CHAPTER IX. NEW ENEMIES

CHAPTER X. DESTRUCTION OF THE SHIR DETACHMENT

CHAPTER XI. SPIRIT OF DISAFFECTION

CHAPTER XII. VESSELS RETURN TO KHARTOUM

CHAPTER XIII. MORAL RESULTS OF THE HUNT

CHAPTER XIV. THE ADVANCE SOUTH

CHAPTER XV. THE ADVANCE TO LOBORE

CHAPTER XVI. ARRIVAL AT FATIKO

CHAPTER XVII. THE MARCH TO UNYORO

CHAPTER XVIII. MARCH TO MASINDI

CHAPTER XIX. RESTORATION OF THE LIBERATED SLAVES

CHAPTER XX. ESTABLISH COMMERCE

CHAPTER XXI. TREACHERY

CHAPTER XXII. THE MARCH TO RIONGA

CHAPTER XXIII. BUILD A STOCKADE AT FOWEERA

CHAPTER XXIV. NO MEDICAL MEN

CHAPTER XXV. I SEND TO GONDOKORO FOR REINFORCEMENTS

CHAPTER XXVI. ARRIVAL OF M'TESE'S ENVOYS

CHAPTER XXVII. CONCLUSION

APPENDIX

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In the present work I shall describe the history of the Khedive of Egypt's expedition, which I have had the honour to command, as the first practical step that has been taken to suppress the slave trade of Central Africa.

I shall not repeat, beyond what may be absolutely necessary, that which has already been published in my former works on Africa, "The Albert N'yanza" and "The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia," but I shall adhere to the simple path taken by the expedition. This enterprise was the natural result of my original explorations, in which I had been an eye-witness to the horrors of the slave trade, which I determined, if possible, to suppress.

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As the fleet now slowly sailed against the strong, current of the Bahr Giraffe, I walked along the hank with Lieutenant Baker, and shot ten of the large francolin partridge, which in this dry season were very numerous. The country was as usual flat, but bearing due south of the Bahr Giraffe junction, about twelve miles distant, is a low granite hill, partially covered with trees; this is the first of four similar low hills that are the only rising points above the vast prairie of flat plain.

As we were walking along the bank I perceived an animal ascending from the river, about two hundred yards distant, where it had evidently been drinking: we immediately endeavoured to cut off its retreat, when it suddenly emerged from the grass and discovered a fine lion with large shaggy mane. The king of beasts, as usual, would not stand to show fight in the open, but bounded off in the direction of the rocky hills.

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