The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia, and the sword hunters of the Hamran Arabs

"WITHOUT troubling the public with a description of that portion of the Nile to the north of the first cataract, or with a detailed account of the Egyptian ruins, that have been visited by a thousand tourists, I will commence by a few extracts from my journal, written at the close of the boat voyage from Cairo:-May 8, 1861."