Travels in Kordofan. Embracing a description of that province of Egypt, and of some of the bordering countries, with a review of the present state of the commerce in those countries, of the habits and customs of the inhabitants, as also an account of the slave hunts taking place under the government of Mehemed Ali / By Ignatius Pallme.

  • Pallme, Ignatius.
Date:
1844
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Credit: Travels in Kordofan. Embracing a description of that province of Egypt, and of some of the bordering countries, with a review of the present state of the commerce in those countries, of the habits and customs of the inhabitants, as also an account of the slave hunts taking place under the government of Mehemed Ali / By Ignatius Pallme. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Kordofan to Sennaar, sleep, during which so many cares and troubles are forgotten, frequently failed me ; and what did I not suffer on my return home through the frightful desert, from Abouhamed to Krusko, on the Nile ! I had not the means to pur¬ chase a second camel. My solitary beast was laden with my luggage and water-bags ; it was, indeed, overloaded, I could not, therefore, mount it, and I was thus under the painful necessity of following the caravan, during two tedious days on foot, enduring a march of twenty-one hours daily on the sand, under a scorching sun. Man overcomes many diffi¬ culties, and wTill bear more than is generally be¬ lieved. In eight days I reached Krusko, where I met Mr. Kotschy, the naturalist; he alone can tell how worn out I was with fatigue, hunger, and thirst, when I arrived at his tent, where he enter¬ tained me during three days, for he had just arrived from Grand Cairo.* I may, therefore, say that I have been put to many trials, endured innumerable hardships, and had many hair-breadth escapes with my life. It is not very probable that a traveller, furnished with a passport, would now meet with any misadventure in the interior of the country, for the * It is, of course, understood, that travellers from Cairo are fur¬ nished with provisions of all kinds, whereas those returning from the Belled-Soodan are merely provided with red lentils. A sin- gular fate has brought us five times unexpectedly together, within the space of five years, in three different quarters of the globe; the last time we met in a miserable village, in the Isle of Cyprus, towards the end of last year.