Sir Samuel W. Baker
The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs
The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs
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May 8, 1861—No air. The thermometer 104 degrees Fahr.; a stifling heat. Becalmed, we have been lying the entire day below the ruins of Philae. These are the most imposing monuments of the Nile, owing to their peculiar situation upon a rocky island that commands the passage of the river above the cataract.
Sir Samuel W. Baker's account follows a year of exploration along the rivers that descend from the Ethiopian highlands into the Nile system. Beginning above the first cataract, the journey crosses Nubia and reaches Berber, the Atbara, Kassala, the Settite, the Dinder, and the Blue Nile. Baker records river floods, desert travel, wildlife, hunting, camp life, and encounters with the Bisharin, Hadendowa, and Hamran communities of the eastern Sudan frontier.
The book is especially valuable for its detailed description of how the Atbara and Blue Nile produce the annual inundation that sustained Egypt. It is also a vivid and sometimes troubling Victorian travel narrative whose colonial assumptions and descriptions of local peoples require critical reading. This Nile Book Store edition preserves the complete public-domain text in a clean, reflowable EPUB with linked navigation and a new publisher's note.
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Historical content note: This nineteenth-century narrative contains colonial language and descriptions of slavery, warfare, race, religion, and African communities that modern readers may find inaccurate or offensive.
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