. The story of Africa and its explorers. ^ the first Napoleon confinedthemselves to Lower Egypt—the site of thePharaohs gold-mines, and the quarries of por-phyry, and other valuable building materials NILE SURVEYS. 245 worked twenty-seven centuries betore theChristian era. In 1873 Colonel Colston went. ERXST MARNO. (From a Photograph by Heinrieh Graf, Berlin.) from Keneh to Berenice, and from that ancientport northwards to Berber. Next year theWar Office sent Purcly-Bey into Darfur,Colston into Kordofan, and Mitchell, anengineer, to study the geology of the regionbetween the Nile and the Red S
. The story of Africa and its explorers. ^ the first Napoleon confinedthemselves to Lower Egypt—the site of thePharaohs gold-mines, and the quarries of por-phyry, and other valuable building materials NILE SURVEYS. 245 worked twenty-seven centuries betore theChristian era. In 1873 Colonel Colston went. ERXST MARNO. (From a Photograph by Heinrieh Graf, Berlin.) from Keneh to Berenice, and from that ancientport northwards to Berber. Next year theWar Office sent Purcly-Bey into Darfur,Colston into Kordofan, and Mitchell, anengineer, to study the geology of the regionbetween the Nile and the Red Sea, whichenabled a better map to be dra^vn of Egyptthan had hitherto been possible; while owingto the military stations established by theKhedive the country was explored with com-parative ease to the borders of Borgou andWaday on the west, and Dar Fertit onthe south. In 1874, also, Gordon becameGovernor of the Equatorial Provinces, withresults which, we have seen, greatly enlargedour knowledge of the Upper Nile Basin;albeit Gordon, though an officer of the RoyalEngineers, was never an enthusiast in scientificinvestigation. He did not encourage his sub-ordinates to go beyond their duties, con-sidering these quite sufficient for their it was seldom that he refused facilities toprope
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