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Exploration of the Nile tributaries of Abyssinia : the sources, supply, and overflow of the Nile : the country, people, customs, etc. : interspersed with highly exciting adventures of the author among elephants, lions, buffaloes, hippopotami, rhinoceros, etc. : accompanied by expert native sword hunters : illustrated
- Title
- Exploration of the Nile tributaries of Abyssinia : the sources, supply, and overflow of the Nile : the country, people, customs, etc. : interspersed with highly exciting adventures of the author among elephants, lions, buffaloes, hippopotami, rhinoceros, etc. : accompanied by expert native sword hunters : illustrated / by Sir S.W. Baker ; with a supplementary sketch relative to the captivity and release of English subjects and the career of the late Emperor Theodore by Rev. W.L. Gage.
- Author
- Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821-1893
- Publication
- Hartford : Published by O.D. Case & Co., 1868.
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- Description
- xx, [3], 24-608 pages, [17] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, maps; 23 cm.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Subject
- Note
- Frontispiece plate included in pagination.
- Includes index.
- Provenance (note)
- is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
- Contents
- ch. 1. Above the cataract -- ch. 2. -- ch. 3. Wild asses of the desert -- ch. 4. Route from Cassala to Souakim -- ch. 5. The storm -- ch. 6. Sheik Achmet Abou Sinn -- ch. 7. The departure -- ch. 8. The plagues of Egypt -- ch. 9. Form a raft with the sponging bath -- ch. 10. A few notes at Ehetilla -- ch. 11. The ford -- ch. 12. Old Neptune joins the party -- ch. 13. The lions find the buffalo -- ch. 14. A foreboding of evil -- ch. 15. Antelopes on the Settite -- ch. 16. Abou Do is greedy -- ch. 17. We reach the Royan -- ch. 18. A camel falls, and dies -- ch. 19. Send a party to reconnoiter -- ch. 20. Arrival at Metemma, or Gallabat -- ch. 21. Fertility of the country on the banks of the Rahad -- ch. 22. We leave the Dinder -- Supplementary pages.
- Call Number
- Sc 916.3-B (Baker, S. Exploration of the Nile)
- LCCN
- 36028701
- OCLC
- 1057950
- NYPGR1057950-B
- Author
- Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821-1893, author.
- Title
- Exploration of the Nile tributaries of Abyssinia : the sources, supply, and overflow of the Nile : the country, people, customs, etc. : interspersed with highly exciting adventures of the author among elephants, lions, buffaloes, hippopotami, rhinoceros, etc. : accompanied by expert native sword hunters : illustrated / by Sir S.W. Baker ; with a supplementary sketch relative to the captivity and release of English subjects and the career of the late Emperor Theodore by Rev. W.L. Gage.
- Publisher
- Hartford : Published by O.D. Case & Co., 1868.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Provenance
- Copy in Sc 916.3-B (accession no. B524130) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
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- Added Author
- Gage, William Leonard, 1832-1889, contributor.O.D. Case & Company, publisher.Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
- Research Call Number
- Sc 916.3-B (Baker, S. Exploration of the Nile)BLM (Baker, S. W. Exploration of the Nile tributeries of Abyssinia)