. The story of Africa and its explorers. now arrived, and with itthe fourth since Nachtigal had left to the mission on whichhe had been despatched, his long the ?way-travels had been exceptionally *^^*^®^-prosperous, though the traveller had not gone 252 THE STORY OF AFRICA. without his share of those fevers from whichnew visitors to inner Africa so seldom , so far as his journey from Bornu toWaday was concerned, he had been travers-ing what was actually or virtually groundfresh to geographers, and from this point toDarfur he would have the same good j
. The story of Africa and its explorers. now arrived, and with itthe fourth since Nachtigal had left to the mission on whichhe had been despatched, his long the ?way-travels had been exceptionally *^^*^®^-prosperous, though the traveller had not gone 252 THE STORY OF AFRICA. without his share of those fevers from whichnew visitors to inner Africa so seldom , so far as his journey from Bornu toWaday was concerned, he had been travers-ing what was actually or virtually groundfresh to geographers, and from this point toDarfur he would have the same good just at the time when he was fain toleave Abeshr and its Sultan, whom—more of its internal dissensions, had virtually con-quered it before it was formally united tothe Khedives viceroyalty, with the help ofEgyptian troops. It was these civil broils of which the echohad reached Nachtigal at Abeshr. Moham-med Hassan, the native king, was dead, and awar of succession had stopped all communica-tion between El Easher, the Darfur capita],.
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