Author: Ferdinand WernePublisher:
ISBN: 9781021720818
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Expedition to Discover the Sources of the White Nile, in the Years 1840, 1841, From the Germ., by C.W. O'reilly
Author: Ferdinand WernePublisher:
ISBN: 9781021720818
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Expedition to Discover the Sources of the White Nile, in the Years 1840, 1841
Author: Ferdinand WernePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nile River
Languages : en
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Book Description
Expedition to Discover the Sources of the White Nile, in the Years 1840, 1841
Author: Ferdinand WernePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nile River
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Expedition to discover the sources of the White Nile, in the years 1840, 1841, from the Germ., by C.W. O'Reilly
Author: Ferdinand WerneExpedition to Discover the Sources of the White Nile, in the Years 1840, 1841, from the Germ., by C.W. O'reilly
Author: Ferdinand WernePublisher:
ISBN: 9780371245330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Expedition to Discover the Sources of the White Nile in the Years 1840, 1841 (Complete)
Author: Ferdinand WernePublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465562915
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Discoveries and conquests, which so frequently go hand in hand, are of the greatest importance to the history of mankind. Like a combination of streams, they break through natural boundaries and the rocky dams of ages, and open a way for the incessant progress of civilization through new and untrodden paths. Yet glorious enterprises, costly equipments, and hazardous exploits, may conceal a swelling kernel of material interest beneath a husk of fine reasons, as if these constituted the primitive motive. Thus Mohammed Ali, the Viceroy of Egypt, has done very much for science, especially geography, without even thinking of it, whose comprehensive relations, with respect to the higher requirements of mankind, lie far beyond the limits of his ideas. Neither has he honoured with his study the hieroglyphics in the Biban el Moluk near Thebes, where the black Kushi bring golden rings as tribute to the Pharaohs. Yet he knows, and is so exceedingly fond of these rings (Okiën), which in Ethiopia even now serve instead of money, that, so far as the destroying arms of this much-famed satrap reach in Belled-Sudan, no more okiën are to be seen. Moreover, he is making exertions to follow and secure those that have retreated and eluded his grasp, which affords an excellent opportunity for extending our knowledge of the countries and people of East and Central Africa. He sacrificed his son Ismail, and, through the Defterdar, devastated and depopulated this beautiful country, merely to secure to himself the way to the gold regions; though he might have attained his object much better, had he sought to elevate the country in every possible way, and to re-establish mercantile confidence. For, from the earliest ages, a market has existed here, to which gold comes, first hand, in the leaf and grain form, by barter with the inhabitants of the interior, just as it has been separated from the sand of the torrents, and kept in quills or horns of the gazelle. In Sennaar or Kordofan it is found in rings of half and whole okiën and in gold wire, but it is frequently changed, by weighing and melting it down, into ingots or bars, which Mohammed Ali just as little contemns. But “Turks:”—in this one word is included all and every answer to questions on the condition of the people. We shrug up our shoulders, and say “Turks.” Whoever has lived some time amongst them must, from the clearest conviction, confess the perfect incapacity of these Turks for advancing and civilizing the countries under their government, and their indifference to the interests, nay, even their premeditated murder of the nations infested by them. The complete depravity of the Asiatic world, even in the lifeless and powerless form of a mass dissolved in corrupt fermentation, always effervesces strongly into cruelty with the wide-spread barbarians of the East, and displays itself in bestial vices, to the disgrace of mankind and scorn of the sacred bond of nations. A truly savage nature is theirs, which, from Montenegro to the east and south, repels all western civilization, and would seek a kind of national fame by ridiculous reactions against it, as a hated and even despised foreign state of manners and life, in order to cover their nakedness and infamy, and to cloak their empty ostentation. But the Turk of Egypt is the outcast of his countryman in Turkey itself. Egypt, for example, is so decried in Albania, on account of its corruption, that the Arnaut returning from thence seldom obtains a wife, even if he have his girdle full of red gold.
Expedition To Discover The Sources Of The Withe Nile, In The Years 1840, 1841
Author: Ferdinand WernePublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781021555830
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Expedition to Discover the Sources of the White Nile is an account of an expedition to explore the sources of the Nile river in Africa. Led by the Austrian explorer Ferdinand Werne, this expedition faced numerous challenges and setbacks as they navigated uncharted territory. This book is an exciting adventure story and an important historical document. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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