. The story of Africa and its explorers. nd, since 1884, partof the Mahdist dominion. But in 1873 thecountry wag still independent, for it was notuntil some time later that Zubeir, the slave-trader (Vol. II., pp. 141-2), taking advantage and the neighbouring sultanates. Then,while waiting for nev/s, the rainy seasonarrived, and Ali, unwilling for his guest to. run any undue risks in the unsettled state ofthe country, persuaded him to pass the daysof involuntary idleness in a journey to Betcha,Kachemere, and Karanga, across the Batha,through the Kadjakse country to the Bahr-el-Salamat, a river
. The story of Africa and its explorers. nd, since 1884, partof the Mahdist dominion. But in 1873 thecountry wag still independent, for it was notuntil some time later that Zubeir, the slave-trader (Vol. II., pp. 141-2), taking advantage and the neighbouring sultanates. Then,while waiting for nev/s, the rainy seasonarrived, and Ali, unwilling for his guest to. run any undue risks in the unsettled state ofthe country, persuaded him to pass the daysof involuntary idleness in a journey to Betcha,Kachemere, and Karanga, across the Batha,through the Kadjakse country to the Bahr-el-Salamat, a river which, after flowing throughLake Iro, joins the Shari to contribute itswaters to Lake Tchad. This excursion, owingto the wet weather, took twenty days, though ILLNESS OF 1)B. NACHTIGAL. 253 ordinarily the ground can easily be covered in Uie insidious climate of Africa. It was, there-ten or a dozen journeys. fore, with gladness he received a message toIn the swamps near Mangari, the farthest the effect that for the time being—as events. Difference between the Coldestand the Wannest Month. I^-I Less than S°.ESa 5° to 10°.10° to S0° to 30°.30° to 40°.^^ 40° to 60°. -Line within which the RelativeHumidity of-the Year exceeds 70per cent., \ MAP OF THE MEAN ANNUAL EANGE OF TEMPEEATUEE IN AFEICA. (By E. G. rMvensteiii.) point to the south which Dr. Nachtigal had afterwards proved—the Darfur succession reached, malarial fever still further had been amicably settled. He would fain angan. ^yQ^kened a constitution which for have gone beyond Dar Runga, which Ali had a long time past had begun to be affected by permitted him to visit—though at that season 254 THE STORY OF AFRICA. the route to it was simply one vast swamp—to examine the many streams which traversethe country, and even to reach the Welle ofSchweinfurth, then, and for many years subse-quently, one of the rapidly decreasing mys-teries of African hydrography. But he wastoo anxious to return to civilisation whil
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