: The heart of Africa Vol. 2 (of 2) by Schweinfurth Georg August Frewer Ellen E Ellen Elizabeth Translator - Africa Central Description and travel; Schweinfurth Georg August 1836-1925 Travel Africa Central

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The PYGMIES--Nubian stories--Ancient classical allusions--Homer, Herodotus, Aristotle--My introduction to Pygmies--Adimokoo the Akka--Close questioning--War-dance--Visits from many Akka-- Mummery's Pygmy corps--My adopted Pygmy--Nsewue's life and death-- Dwarf races of Africa--Accounts of previous authors: Battel, Dapper, K?lle--Analogy of Akka with Bushmen--Height and complexion--Hair and beards--Shape of the body--Awkward gait-- Graceful hands--Form of skull--Size of eyes and ears--Lips-- Gesticulations--Dialect inarticulate--Dexterity and cunning-- Munza's protection of the race 122

Return to the North--Tikkitikki's reluctance to start--Passage of the Gadda--Sounding the Keebaly--The river Kahpily--Cataracts of the Keebaly--Kubby's refusal of boats--Our impatience--Crowds of hippopotamuses--Possibility of fording the river--Origin and connection of the Keebaly--Division of highland and lowland-- Geographical expressions of Arabs and Nubians--Mohammedan perversions--Return to Nembey--Bivouac in the border-wilderness-- Eating wax--The Niam-niam declare war--Parley with the enemy--My mistrust of the guides--Treacherous attack on Mohammed--Mohammed's dangerous wound--Open war--Detruncated heads--Effect of arrows-- Mohammed's defiance--Attack on the abattis--Pursuit of the enemy-- Inexplicable appearance of 10,000 men--Waudo's unpropitious omen-- My Niam-niam and their oracle--Mohammed's speedy cure--Solar phenomenon--Dogs barbarously speared--Women captured--Niam-niam affection for their wives--Calamus--Upper course of the Mbrwole-- Fresh captive--Her composure--Alteration in scenery--Arrival at the Nabambisso 147

Solitary days and short provisions--Productive ant-hill--Ideal plenty and actual necessity--Attempt at epicurism--Expedition to the east--Papyrus swamp--Disgusting food of the Niam-niam-- Merdyan's Seriba--Hyaena as beast of prey--Losing the way-- Reception in Tuhamy's Seriba--Scenery of Mondoo--Gyabir's marriage--Discovery of the source of the Dyoor--Mount Baginze-- Vegetation of mountain--Cyanite gneiss--Mohammed's campaign against Mbeeoh--Three Bongo missing--Skulls Nos. 36, 37, and 38-- Indifference of Nubians to cannibalism--Horrible scene--Change in mode of living--Invasion of ants--Peculiar method of crossing the Sway--Bad tidings--Successful chase--Extract of meat--Return of long absent friends--Adventures of Mohammed's detachment--Route from Rikkete to Kanna--Disappointment with Niam-niam dog--Limited authority of Nganye--Suspension-bridge over the Tondy 194

Division of the caravan--Trip to the east--African elk--Bamboo- forests--Seriba Mbomo on the Lehssy--Abundance of corn--Route between Kuddoo and Mbomo--Maize-culture--Harness-bushbock-- Leopard carried in triumph--Leopards and panthers--The Babuckur-- Lips of the Babuckur women--Surprised by buffaloes--Accident in crossing the Lehssy--Tracts of wilderness--Buffaloes in the bush--The Mashirr hills--Tamarinds again--Wild dates--Tikkitikki and the cows--The Viceroy's scheme--Hunger on the march--Passage of the Tondy--Suggestion for a ferry--Prosperity of Ghattas's establishments--Arrival of expected stores--A dream realised-- Trip to Kurkur--Hyaena dogs--Dislike of the Nubians to pure water-- Two soldiers killed by Dinka--Attempt to rear an elephant--My menagerie--Accident from an arrow--Cattle plagues--Meteorology-- Trip to the Dyoor--Gyabir's delusion--Bad news of Mohammed-- Preparations for a second Niam-niam journey 246

A disastrous day--Failure to rescue my effects--Burnt Seriba by night--Comfortless bed--A wintry aspect--Rebuilding the Seriba-- Cause of the fire--Idrees's apathy--An exceptionally wet day-- Bad news of Niam-niam expedition--Measuring distance by footsteps--Start to the Dyoor--Khalil's kind reception--A restricted wardrobe--Temperature at its minimum--Corn requisitions of Egyptian troops--Slave trade carried on by soldiers-- Suggestions for improved transport--Chinese hand-barrows--Defeat of Khartoomers by Ndoruma--Nubians' fear of bullets--A lion shot-- Nocturnal disturbance--Measurements of the river Dyoor-- Hippopotamus hunt--Habits of hippopotamus--Hippopotamus fat--Nile whips--Recovery of a manuscript--Character of the Nubians--Nubian superstitions--Strife in the Egyptian camp 289

Fresh wanderings--Dyoor remedy for wounds--Crocodiles in the Ghetty--Former residence of Miss Tinn?--Dirt and disorder--The Baggara-Rizegat--An enraged fanatic--The Pongo--Frontiers of the Bongo and Golo--A buffalo-calf shot--Idrees Wod Defter's Seriba--Golo dialect--Corn magazines of the Golo--The Kooroo--The goats' brook--Increasing level of land--Seebehr's Seriba Dehm Nduggoo--Discontent of the Turks--Visit to an invalid--Ibrahim Effendi--Establishment of the Dehms--Nubians rivals to the slave-dealers--Population of Dar Ferteet--The Kredy--Overland route to Kordofan--Shekka--Copper mines of Darfoor--Raw copper 332

Underwood of Cycadeae--Peculiar mills of the Kredy--Wanderings in the wilderness--Crossing the Beery--Inhospitable reception at Mangoor--Numerous brooks--Huge emporium of slave-trade--Highest point of my travels--Western limit--Gallery-woods near Dehm Gudyoo--Scorbutic attack--Dreams and their fulfilment--Courtesy of Yumma--Remnants of ancient mountain ridges--Upper course of the Pongo--Information about the far west--Great river of Dar Aboo Dinga--Barth's investigations--Primogeniture of the Bahr-el-Arab--First giving of the weather--Elephant-hunters from Darfoor--The Sehre--Wild game around Dehm Adlan--Cultivated plants of the Sehre--Magic tuber--Deficiency of water--A night without a roof--Irrepressible good spirits of the Sehre--Lower level of the land--A miniature mountain-range--Norway rats-- Gigantic fig-tree in Moody--The "evil eye"--Little steppe- burning--Return to Khalil's quarters 373

Tidings of war--Two months' hunting--Yolo antelopes--Reed-rats-- Habits of the Aulacodus--River-oysters--Soliman's arrival-- Advancing season--Execution of a rebel--Return to Ghattas's Seriba--Disgusting population--Allagabo--Alarm of fire--Strange evolutions of hartebeests--Nubian cattle-raids--Traitors among the natives--Remains of Shol's huts--Lepers and slaves--Ambiguous slave-trading--Down the Gazelle--The Balaeniceps again--Dying hippopotamus--Invocation of saints--Disturbance at night--False alarm--Taken in tow--The Mudir's camp--Crowded boats--Confiscation of slaves--Surprise in Fashoda--Slave-caravans on the bank-- Arrival in Khartoom--Telegram to Berlin--Seizure of my servants-- Remonstrance with the Pasha--Mortality in the fever season-- Tikkitikki's death--???????. ???????. 443

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