Chapter XXIII: Appendix

Hours’
March.
1876. h. m.

Monday, June 19th. Left Om-Badr 6.0 }
}
20th. 8.0 }
}
21st. Did not move camp. }
} 116
22nd. 6.0 } miles
} = 2·7
23rd. Heard Baghareeyah wells were dry 5.0 } miles
} per
24th. Towards Kajah 10.0 } hour.
}
25th. Reached Kajah (started at 6.30 7.42 }
a.m.) }
}
26th. to 31st inclusive. Camped at Kajah }
(6 days). }

July 1st. Left camp 7.51 a.m. 6.20 }
}
2nd. „ 6.30 „ 8.15 }
} 120
3rd. „ 6.53 „ 7.45 } miles
} = 2·7
4th. „ 6.36 „ 8.0 } miles
} per
5th. „ 6.44 „ 8.30 } hour.
}
6th. „ 6.56 „ reached Sahfy 5.0 }

7th. „ 6.37 „ 8.0 }
}
8th. „ 7.4 „ 8.5 }
}
9th. „ 6.50 „ reached 2.25 }
Ed Dubbah } 124
} miles
10th & 11th. Camped at Ed Dubbah (2 days). } = 2·5
} miles
12th. Left camp 5.10 a.m. 8.30 } per
} hour.
13th. „ 3.56 „ 8.33 }
}
14th. 8.0 }
}
15th. Camped in Wady opp. Sotahl 6.0 }

16th. 8.0 } 88
} miles
17th. 8.0 } = 2·6
} miles
18th. 9.0 } per
} hour.
19th. Reached opp. Old Dongola at noon 9.0 }

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FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: Or “Wady Malik,” “Royal Valley.”]

[Footnote 2: These are respectively the Arabic and native names of the capital.]

[Footnote 3: A grain resembling maize.]

[Footnote 4: The single room, with its enclosures, where we dined, as related above, was occupied by thirteen people, viz. the proprietor, his two wives, four children (two each), two grown daughters, three grown sons, and one man-servant to look after the goats and fowls, &c. but who never slept inside.]

[Footnote 5: Mr. MacCoan, in _Egypt as it is_, says it has two humps. This is only an optical illusion.]

[Footnote 6: A rottle is eleven-twelfths of a pound.]

[Footnote 7: These are the best spirits; the drawback at the English Custom House enables them to be sold at this low price.]

[Footnote 8: In Cairo camel-hire is dear. I have myself paid as much as six pounds five shillings per month.]

[Footnote 9: The Nile, or the sea.]

[Footnote 10: “An Andaman hut may be considered the rudest attempt of the human species to secure shelter from the weather. It consists of a few sticks, fastened together at the top, the other end being fixed in the ground. A thatch composed of branches and leaves completes the structure.”—“A Visit to the Andaman Islands,” _Good Words_, May 1866. The similarity of the structures of two peoples so distant is somewhat remarkable.]

[Footnote 11: Since writing the above, I learn that another traveller in Egypt has alluded to a similar conversation; I have not read it. I can only say that there is nothing surprising in the circumstance of two Egyptian officials having but one geographical idea between them.]

[Footnote 12: From the doctor’s store.]

[Footnote 13: All the degrees given refer to Fahrenheit’s scale.]

[Footnote 14: “Fascher liegt nach meiner vorläufigen construktion einige minuten östlich vom 26° O. L. v. Gr. und in einer Breite von 13° 45′. Weitere Kritik muss dieses vorläufige Resultat modificiren.”—See paper alluded to above.]

Transcriber's note:

In ERRATA, "Madeleino" changed to: "Madeleine"

Changes in the ERRATA have been made.

pg 3, Changed: "On the follow ng day we paid" to: "following"

pg 35, Changed: "kind, and generall lasts him for five" to:
"generally"

pg 48, Changed: "36 tins buscuits" to: "biscuits"

pg 75, Changed: "sides of the bare roeks" to: "rocks"

pg 85, Changed: "if the shiehks of the tribe" to: "shiekhs"

pg 177, Changed: "and which everbody knew" to: "everybody"

pg 184, Changed: "Monday morning, I had no map" to: "morning. I"

pg 187, Changed: "turned with me into into the thorny bush" to:
"me into the"

pg 201, Changed: "five willing and valuable asssistants" to:
"assistants"

Minor changes in punctuation have been done silently.

Other spelling inconsistencies have been left unchanged.