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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE WILD TRIBES OF THE SOUDAN. CHAPTER I. We leave Cairo for the Egyptian Soudan. ? The Base Country. ? Egyptian Officials.? Quarantine Regulations. ? Our Party. ? Servants of the Party. ? Ali the Cook. ? Shereef the Staid and Stately Waiter. ? Mahoom. ? The Agra's Passengers. On Dec. I, 1881, we left Cairo for Suez, en route for the Egyptian Soudan, with the intention of exploring the Base country, a small tract lying between Takar (an Egyptian province, of which Cassala is the principal town) and Abyssinia. We were going chiefly for sport; and, the Bas country being almost if not entirely unknown to Europeans, we hoped to be successful, especially as it had not previously been shot over, and, moreover, lies in a part of Africa inhabited by many different kinds of game. We knew that in all probability there would be considerable difficulties to encounter in exploring the country; as only a small part of it, and that a part where there is little or no game, belongs to Egypt, and consequently no help could be expected, but rather hindrance, from the Egyptian officials in endeavouring to carry out our programme. They naturally dislike the possibility of sportsmen running the risk of getting into trouble with tribes bordering on their frontier. The Bas are the bites noires, moreover, of all that part of2 AN UNPROMISING OUTLOOK. the Soudan, and have the character of being a very treacherous and unfriendly people; so that it was not only on the part of the Egyptian officials that we expected to have obstacles thrown in our way, but we felt sure that we should have considerable difficulty in getting camel-drivers and servants to undertake the journey. Then, too, the Base, dwelling as they do between Egyptian and Abyssinian territory, would naturally be jealous of any one e...



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  • ISBN-13: 9780217401715
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 82
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217401716
  • Publisher Date: 12 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 163 gr


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