Table of contents -- preface -- above the cataract -- the cairo dragoman mahomet -- wild asses of the desert -- route from cassala to souakim -- the storm -- sheik achmet abou sinn -- the departure -- the plagues of egypt -- form a raft with the sponging bath -- a few notes at ehetilla -- the ford -- old neptune joins the party -- the lions find the buffalo -- a foreboding of evil -- antelopes on the settite -- abou do is greedy -- we reach the royan -- a camel falls, and dies -- send a party to reconnoitre -- arrival at metemma, or gallabat
Summary
Annotation A concise summary of the Nile system in which Baker describes 12 months' exploration, during which he examined every individual river that is tributary to the Nile from Abyssinia
