: The heart of Africa Vol. 1 (of 2) by Schweinfurth Georg August Reade William Winwood Author Of Introduction Etc Frewer Ellen E Ellen Elizabeth Translator - Africa Central Description and travel; Schweinfurth Georg August 1836-1925 Travel Africa Central

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My former journey--Inducements to a second--Plan and object--Custom-house difficulties at Suez--Scenes in the Governor's divan--Environs of Suez--Sulphur mine of Gimsah--Recluse life of the officials--An unenticing coast--The roadstead of Djidda--The bride of the fish--Voyage across the Red Sea--Salt works of Roway--Appearance of the shore--Charm of the moonlight nights--Importance of Suakin--First night-camp in the mountains--New species of Dracaena--Numerous succulents among the flora--The valley of Singat --Idyllic abode of the Governor--Mountains of Erkoweet--The olive-tree wild--Gardens of the desert--Characteristics of the town Bedouins--Equipment for the desert--Old fanatic from Kano--Injury and oppression--The Bedouin camp O-Mareg--Brown coating of the rocks--Goats and sheep of the Bedouins--Plant with my own name--Contest with the camel-drivers--Ugliness of the women--A monument of nature--Arrival at the Nile--Tent in peril--A wedding--The ninety-nine islands and the Sablook-straits--Pitiable condition of the country--Arrival at Khartoom Page 1

Kind reception in Khartoom--Dyafer Pasha, the Governor-General-- Contract with Ghattas--Herr W. Duisberg--Ivory trade at Khartoom--Khartoom possessions in the negro countries--Departure from Khartoom--Manning of the boat--Construction of the Khartoom boats--First night on the White Nile--Character of the landscape--Washing away of the east bank--Fertility of the country on the west--Acacia forests--Herds of the Hassanieh--Numerous hippopotamuses--Geese and ducks--Beginning of the wilderness--The Ambatch-wood--First day of ill-luck-- Running over a wild buffalo--Baggara Arabs--Brethren in the faith--The mountain Nyemati--Evening gossip about pygmies-- Native Egyptian cultivated plants--Buffalos alarming the Baggara--Mohammed Kher, the robber chief--Impressions on the first sight of savages--Boat attacked by bees--Frightful agony--Gadflies--Giant snails--A man carries three canoes--Repair of the sail-yard--Fashoda the most southern military station--Fifteen Shillooks at a shot--Gay temperament of the people--Gun accidents--African giant snakes 43

Reception at the Seriba--Population--Fertility--Salubrity--Management--Poor prospects of the ivory trade--Failure of European firms in Khartoom--Idrees, the chief agent--Domestic arrangements--Beauties of spring--The daughter Seriba Geer--Bit of primeval forest--Giraffe-hunt--Bamboo jungle--Negro festival and music--Trip to the Dyoor and to Wow--Desertion of bearers--Good entertainment--Marquis Antinori and Vayssi?re--Old servant of Petherick's--Hornblend--Height of the water of the Dyoor--Apostrophe to the river--A model Seriba--First acquaintance with Niam-niam--Trader from Tunis--The Wow River--Seriba Agahd in Wow--Edible fruits of the country--Wild buffaloes--Instability of dwellings--Caama and Leucotis antelopes--Numerous butterflies--Bear-baboons--Pharaoh palms--Daily life of the Dyoor--Their race--Iron-smelting--Formation of huts--Idyll of village life--Hunting with snares--Women's work--Graves--Care of young and old 172

THE BONGO: Area, boundaries, and population of Bongoland-- Subjection of the Bongo to the Khartoomers--Decrease of population by slave-trading--Red tinge of the skin--Width of the skull--Small growth of hair--No aridity in climate--Wild tubers as food--Races of goats and dogs--Hunting-weapons-- Villages and huts--Smelting furnaces--Money of the Bongo--Weapons for display--Wood-carving-- Penates of the Bongo--Musical instruments--Character of Bongo music-- Corpulence of the women--Hottentot Venus--Mutilation of the teeth--Disfigurement of the lips--Arrow-poisoning--National games--Marriage premiums--Natural morality--Disposing of the dead--Memorial erections--Mistrust of spirits--Loma, good and ill-luck--Fear of ghosts--Belief in witches-- Peculiarities of language--Unity of the people of Central Africa--Extermination of the race Page 256

Calamities by fire--Deliverance and escape--Six women-slaves burnt--Barterings--Domestication of wild-cats--Plague of cockroaches--Pillen wasps--Agamae and chameleons--Fever-- Meteorology--Solar phenomenon--A festal reception with an unfortunate result--Disturbance of rest at night--Murmuring of prayers--Jewish school--Orgies and drum-beating--Casting out devils--Resolve to follow Aboo-Sammat--Start towards the south--Passage of the Tondy--Character of the forest--The water-bock--Scenery by night--Shereefee's attack--Seriba Duggoo--Consequences of the steppe-burning--Seriba Dagguddoo--Burnt human bones and charred huts--Tropics in winter--Two kinds of ant-hills--Arrival in Sabby--Nocturnal festivities of the Bongo--Desolation of the country-- Goat-suckers--Abundance of game--The zebra-ichneumon--The spectral mantis--Lions--Wonderful chase after hartebeests-- Snake and antelope at a shot 315

Preparations for Niam-niam campaign--Generosity of Aboo Sammat-- Organisation of the caravan--Ceremonies at starting--Banner of Islam--Travelling costume--Terminalia forest--Hartebeest chase--Ahmed the Liar--Prospect from Mbala Ngeea--Bivouac on the Lehssy--Camp noises at night--Story of cannibalism-- Ahmed's fate--The Ibba--First meeting with Niam-niam--Growth of the popukky-grass--Elephant-hunting among the Niam-niam-- Surprise at the white man--Visit to Nganye--A chieftain's household--Entertainment by Nganye--Gumba--Colocasia--A Niam-niam minstrel--Beauty of the Zowa-trees--Encephalartus on the hill of Gumango--Cultivated districts on the Rye-- Condition of hamlets and farms--Devastation of Bendo's district--Contest with the soldiers--Escape from a bullet-- Identity of the Sway and the Dyoor--The law of drainage-- Passage of the Manzilly--First primeval forest--Frontier wildernesses--Organisation in the geography of plants-- Importance of guinea-fowl to the traveller--Feeding the bearers--National diet 415

Poultry-market--Votive pillars and hunting-trophies--Indirect evidence of cannibalism--The chimpanzee in Central Africa-- Presents of chimpanzee skulls--New style of huts--The A-Banga--Cultivation of manioc in Central Africa--The Treculia--Cam-wood and muscat nuts--Conflict with natives-- Shooting-match and sham fight--Magic lucifers--Mutual interchange of blood--Botanical excursion interrupted--Gyabir wounded--Modes of expressing pain--Female slaves captured--Giant lichens--Tree-termites--Monbuttoo frontier--Reception by Nembey--Northern limit of the oil-palm--Imaginary alarm--Unexpected arrival of Khartoomers--Visit of Bongwa and his wife--Cattle of the Maogoo--Cultivation of the sugar-cane--Interview with Izingerria--Arrival at the Welle--Condition of the Welle--Relations of the stream--Crossing the river--Monbuttoo canoes--New impressions of the heart of Africa--Arrival at Munza's residence 515

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