. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 58°26 3&'30' Low Water. High Water. with the regions of the Upper Nile ; it was also the place whence emanated all the expeditions and the movements of military bodies, and where all the religious missions and commercial or scientific expeditions were prepared. A town of soldiers, merchants, and slaves, Khartum has no remarkable monu- ments, and it is surrounded on all sides by spaces which, if not absolute wastes, are, at least, uncultivated and treeless. At the period of the Beja rule, the banks of the two Niles were said to be shaded with an uninterr
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 58°26 3&'30' Low Water. High Water. with the regions of the Upper Nile ; it was also the place whence emanated all the expeditions and the movements of military bodies, and where all the religious missions and commercial or scientific expeditions were prepared. A town of soldiers, merchants, and slaves, Khartum has no remarkable monu- ments, and it is surrounded on all sides by spaces which, if not absolute wastes, are, at least, uncultivated and treeless. At the period of the Beja rule, the banks of the two Niles were said to be shaded with an uninterrupted forest of palms festooned with vines, Khartum is not a healthy town, at least during the portion of the year when the moist winds blow, increasing the waters of the rivers. Typhus has often more than decimated the population ; but in winter the atmosphere is purified by the north winds and the public health is as good at Khartum as in any other African city. After a vigorous defence maintained for upwards of two years against overwhelming numbers, Khartum was betrayed to the Mahdi on
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