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For questions please e-mail us: info@voyager-press.comPhone toll-free 1-888-656-2006 Author: BAKER, Samuel White Title: Journey to Abyssinia in 1862. Publisher: London: Royal Geographical Society, 1863. Notes: Brief but detailed report listing the various Nile tributaries, villages and people lying between 12º and 16º N. lat. and 35º to 38º E. long. Features the river Gash, the Atbara river and its tributaries - the Settite, Salaam, and Angarep; Cassala, Goz, the Rahad, and the Dinder; the country of Sherif el Ibrahim and its immense flat prairies; the wst bandk of the Atbara peopled by the Bishcareen, Jaleen, Shukericah and Dabàina all under Egyptian rule; the Hamran Arabs, opposite the village of Tomat; the districts of Guddabi and Gellabat; the Tokrowris settlers from Darfur, the Blue Nile an Khartoum. Excerpt from the text: "The country between the Rivers Settite and Gellabat has never previously been explored. I have, however, worked through every portion in daily hunting for five months on the Settite, Salaam, and the Angarep, the other portion of the year having been passed in followibg the course of the Atbara into the Nile, and subsequently reaching the River Rahad, from Gellabat, and thence by that river and the Dinder and Blue Nile to Khartum... The west bank of the Atbara is peopled successively by various Arab tribes - Bischareen, Jaleen, Shukericah, and Dabaina; these are all under Egyptian rule. We now cross over to the east bank at the Settite junction, opposite the village of Tomat. This is occupied by another tribe, the Hamran Arabs, who, although forced to pay tribute to the Egyptian Government, lean more towards the robber chief 'Mek Nimmur.' The hostilities of these tribes, and mutual fear, renders the magnificent country bordering the Settite and extending to Gellabat uninhabited..."End Excerpt. Sir Samuel White Baker, 1821 - 1893; was an English explorer in Africa. He explored the Nile tributaries in Ethiopia in 1861-62. Going up the Nile from Cairo, he reached Gondokoro in 1863, and continued his journey southward in spite of the opposition of Arab slave traders and visited Lake Albert (Albert Nyanza) on March 14, 1864. In 1869, with the authority of the Khedive of Egypt, he returned to the region and, creating an administration in the Lado Enclave, he suppressed the brutal slave trade and opened up the lake areas to commerce. For More NORTH-EAST AFRICA items click here Condition: 5 pages. Very Good condition. This is the original account printed in the 1800's, and NOT a reprint. These original text pages have been attractively bound in booklet style in modern blue paper covers with label.
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