Author: Samuel White BakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Ismailia
Author: Samuel White BakerIsmailia
Author: Samuel BakerPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336883875X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
ISMAILIA
Author: SAMUEL W. BAKERFrom Ismailia to Cairo with the 4th, Royal Irish, dragoon guards
Author: W. LittlejohnCity Maps Ismailia Egypt
Author: James mcFeePublisher: Soffer Publishing
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
City Maps Ismailia Egypt is an easy to use small pocket book filled with all you need for your stay in the big city. Attractions, pubs, bars, restaurants, museums, convenience stores, clothing stores, shopping centers, marketplaces, police, emergency facilities are only some of the places you will find in this map. This collection of maps is up to date with the latest developments of the city as of 2017. We hope you let this map be part of yet another fun Ismailia adventure :)
Ismailia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade Organized by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt
Author: Sir Samuel White BakerPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465615180
Category : Africa Description and travel
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
In the present work I shall describe the history of the Khedive of Egypt's expedition, which I have had the honour to command, as the first practical step that has been taken to suppress the slave trade of Central Africa. I shall not repeat, beyond what may be absolutely necessary, that which has already been published in my former works on Africa, "The Albert N'yanza" and "The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia," but I shall adhere to the simple path taken by the expedition. This enterprise was the natural result of my original explorations, in which I had been an eye-witness to the horrors of the slave trade, which I determined, if possible, to suppress. In my former journey I had traversed countries of extreme fertility in Central Africa, with a healthy climate favourable for the settlement of Europeans, at a mean altitude of 4,000 feet above the sea level. This large and almost boundless extent of country was well peopled by a race who only required the protection of a strong but paternal government to become of considerable importance, and to eventually develop the great resources of the soil. I found lands varying in natural capabilities according to their position and altitudes—where sugar, cotton, coffee, rice, spices, and all tropical produce might be successfully cultivated; but those lands were without any civilized form of government, and "every man did what seemed right in his own eyes." In this dislocated state of society, the slave trade prospered to the detriment of all improvement. Rich and well-populated countries were rendered desolate; the women and children were carried into captivity; villages were burnt, and crops were destroyed or pillaged; the population was driven out; a terrestrial paradise was converted into an infernal region; the natives who were originally friendly were rendered hostile to all strangers, and the general result of the slave trade could only be expressed in one word—"ruin." The slave hunters and traders who had caused this desolation were for the most part Arabs, subjects of the Egyptian government. These people had deserted their agricultural occupations in the Soudan and had formed companies of brigands in the pay of various merchants of Khartoum. The largest trader had about 2,500 Arabs in his pay, employed as pirates or brigands, in Central Africa. These men were organized after a rude military fashion, and armed with muskets; they were divided into companies, and were officered in many cases by soldiers who had deserted from their regiments in Egypt or the Soudan. It is supposed that about 15,000 of the Khedive's subjects who should have been industriously working and paying their taxes in Egypt were engaged in the so-called ivory trade and slave-hunting of the White Nile.
Ismailia Esclipse
Author: Khaled A. MattawaThe Life and Correspondence of the Right Hon. Hugh C. E. Childers, 1827-1896
Author: Edmund Spencer Eardley ChildersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Professional Papers by the Corps of Royal Engineers ... Royal Engineers Institute
Author: Great Britain. Army. Royal EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Professional Papers of the Corps of Royal Engineers. Occasional Papers
Author: Great Britain. Corps of Royal EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description