Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . aid of six Up the Nile. A train of forty-one railway wagons, laden with sections of steamers,machinery, boiler sections, etc., etc., arrived at Cairo, and were embarkedon board eleven hired vessels. With the greatest difficulty I procured asteamer of one hundred and forty horse-power to tow this flotilla toKorosko, from which spot the desert journey would commence. Iobtai
Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . aid of six Up the Nile. A train of forty-one railway wagons, laden with sections of steamers,machinery, boiler sections, etc., etc., arrived at Cairo, and were embarkedon board eleven hired vessels. With the greatest difficulty I procured asteamer of one hundred and forty horse-power to tow this flotilla toKorosko, from which spot the desert journey would commence. Iobtained this steamer only by personal application to the Khedive. At length I witnessed the start of the entire party of engineers andmechanics. One steamer towed the long line of eleven vessels againstthe powerful stream of the Nile. One of the tow-ropes snapped at thecommencement of the voyage, which created some confusion, but, whenrighted, they quickly steamed out of view. This mass of heavy material,including two steamers, and two steel life-boats of ten tons each, was tobe transported for a distance of about three thousand miles, four hundredof which would be across the scorching Nubian deserts !. (505) COG WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. The foregoing account of the obstacles encountered by Baker lendsan almost superhuman character to his subsequent success. Nothingstopped him; he leaped over difficulties that would easily have defeatedweaker men. His transport of the heavy freight of his expedition forso great a distance over desert sands and through unexplored regions wasone of the bravest achievements of modern times. The white Nile, says Baker, is a grand river between the Sobat junc-tion and Khartoum, and after passing south to the great affluent the dif-ference in the character is quickly perceived. We now enter upon theregion of the immense flats and boundless marshes, through which theriver winds in a labyrinth-like course for about seven hundred and fiftymiles to Gondokoro.
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