An enquiry into M. Antoine d'Abbadie's journey to Kaffa, in the years 1843 and 1844, to discover the source of the Nile / [Charles T. Beke].

  • Charles Tilstone Beke
Date:
1850
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Credit: An enquiry into M. Antoine d'Abbadie's journey to Kaffa, in the years 1843 and 1844, to discover the source of the Nile / [Charles T. Beke]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ENQUIRY^ A &c. In the year 1837, MM. Antoine and Arnauld d’Abbadie left Europe, “with the express intention’’—as the former has recently asserted, though he says that they at first “ kept it a secret”—“of visiting the source of the White Nile, which [they] believed with Bruce to be situated in Kaffa/’^ From that time till very recently, with the exception of some brief intervals, the two brothers were resident in Eastern Africa; and the reports of their proceedings, from time to time received in Europe from the elder of them, M. Antoine d’Abbadie, naturally attracted the attention of geographers and other men of science, and excited a well-founded desire to be made more fully acquainted with the results of so many years’ observations and researches in that very interesting por¬ tion of the globe. In the beginning of the year 1845, letters were received, both in France and in England, from M. d’Abbadie, containing many particulars respecting the countries lying beyond Abessinia to the south, and, among them, of the kingdom of Kaffa.^ This country was,described by him as being a peninsula surrounded by the river Godjeb, which river he said he had ascertained to be the upper course of the Bahr el Abyad, the direct stream of the Nile, recently explored by the Turco- Egyptian expeditions fitted out by command of the late Mohammed Ali Pasha.^ * See M. d’Ahbadie’s declaration to that effect in the Athenceum of January 27th, 1849, No. 1109, page 93. ^ See Athenceum, No. 906, p. 242; No. 911, p. 360; No. 918, p. 542; Bulletin de la Societe de Geoqra- j)hie, .3rd Series, vol. iii, pp. 52, 133, 311; Nouvelles Annales des Voyages, 1845, vol. i. pp. 260, 365; vol. ii. pp. 107, 218. ^ See D’Arnand, in Bulletin, 2nd Series, vol. xviii. p. 367; vol.xix. pp. 89, 445; Werne, Eeise zur Entdecli- mig der Quellen des Weissen Nil (Berlin, 1849), j^cissivi.