Khartoum and the Blue and White Niles, Volume II

Khartoum and the Blue and White Niles, Volume II
By George Melly

George Melly's Nile journey continues across the desert and through Nubia toward Khartoum, recording camel travel, ancient temples, river landscapes, local customs, and the realities of travel in the early 1850s.

Volume II brings the expedition to Khartoum and the meeting of the Blue and White Niles before following the return journey north. This carefully prepared EPUB edition includes linked contents and the original illustrations.

Format: EPUB
Language: English
Edition: Nile Book Store digital edition

A public-domain work, newly prepared for modern reading by Nile Book Store.

Excerpt

The bargain for conveying us across the desert had already been struck, and we had arranged everything to start at day-break; but the camels had not arrived when it wanted but an hour of noon, and then there was the process of loading to accomplish.

We were not allowed to have the scene entirely to ourselves. Every ferry-boat had brought at least a dozen gazers from Wadeh Halfea, and the bank could boast an unusual collection of picturesque objects, looking in the distance like bundles of white linen, surmounted by curly heads; while here and there a camel lay groaning, in apparent anticipation of the coming burthen.