. The story of Africa and its explorers. s name will always be honourably to Egypt in 1872, he founded, atthe request of the Khedive Ismail, theSociete Khediviale deGeographic in Cairo,and was nominatedits first President. Insubsequent years heexamined the naturalhistory — the botanyprincipally—of variousdistricts bordering theNile, and, as Directorof the Egyptian Mu-seums in Cairo, remainedin that country until1888, when he returnedto Germany with theobject of devoting therest of his life to pub-lishing the descriptionsof the numerous collec-tions he had may be add
. The story of Africa and its explorers. s name will always be honourably to Egypt in 1872, he founded, atthe request of the Khedive Ismail, theSociete Khediviale deGeographic in Cairo,and was nominatedits first President. Insubsequent years heexamined the naturalhistory — the botanyprincipally—of variousdistricts bordering theNile, and, as Directorof the Egyptian Mu-seums in Cairo, remainedin that country until1888, when he returnedto Germany with theobject of devoting therest of his life to pub-lishing the descriptionsof the numerous collec-tions he had may be added that,in addition to manysimilar honours, receivedin 1874 the Founders Medal of the RoyalGeographical Society for his discovery ofthe Welle river, beyond the south-Avesternlimits of the Nile basin. This was his chiefcontribution to African hydrography, thoughmuch of the country visited by him, andespecially Dar Fertit, was, practically, groundquite fresh to the geographer, though notto the slave- and -jf^M THE GERMAN CONSULATE AT KHAETOUM DURING THE EGYPTIAN OCCUPATION OF THE SOUDAN. {From a FlwtograpU by II. Buchta.) CHAPTER XL The Scientific Explorers: Beys and Pashas: Nachtigal and Junker. What Egypt has done for the Exploration of the Nile Valley—Nachtigal—His History, and how he reachedthe Nile from Tripoli—Murzuk—A Raid into the Tibesti Mountains—A Journey to Bornu—Lake Tchad—Borgou—Baghirmi and its History—Songhai and the Slave Trade—Villages in Trees—Fittri—Wadayand its History—Excursion to Mangari and the Bahr-el-Salamat—Darfur and the Way Thither—Historyof Darfur—An Old Resident in Kobbeh—Brownes Travels a Century Ago—From Fasher to Khartoum—A Narrow Escape—Return to Europe—The Sheik Mohammed el Tounsy—Junker—His History—FirstExpedition up the Nile to Khartoum~To Sobat—Makaraka and Mundoo Countries—Bahr-el-Ghazel—ASecond Expedition results in a Seven Years Stay—Dem Suleiman
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