Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-01-06

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brother, who actually came from England
to Cairo to escort her back. Her desire
and intention was to build herself resi-
dence either at Cairo or on the Nile island
of Rhoda and she was very busily ocou-
pied with architectural plans of strange
fantastic character when NJ. Cent? met
her for the last time in the Egyptian
capital. Her plans Of settling there did
not meet with encouragement from the
Egyptian government, and it was in con.
sequence Of her inability to procure the
land necessary for her purposes that she
departed in her own steam vessel to visit
the African coasts of the Mediterranean.
While on this voyage she put in at Civita
Vecchia, whence she frequently visited
Rome and astonished the natives by her
retinue Of black dependents. Her project
now was to journey from Tripoli to Tim
buctoo, for which she endeavored to OBJ
tain the assistance and companionship OF
the experienced African traveller, Gerard
Rohlf, then in Rome; but he had just
been engaged to accompany the English
expedition to Abyssinia. It was in the
wild regions of the Sahara. between
Mourzouk and Chat, that Mile. Time
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at or near Chat till the following autumn,
previous to prosecuting her longer
Journey as far as to the territories of the
Sultan of Bouinou, living out in tents all
the time in hope of recovering her
strength. A casual quarrel between some
camel drivers of the savage tribe of the
Tunic and her own Dutch servants one
morning brought her to the scene of &C.
ton, when javelin was thrust through
her from behind.
"The actual addition to their knowl-
edge which African geographers owe to
Mile. Time was made in her expedition
to the Gazelle river. They succeeded in
ascertaining the position of the water
shed which marks off the basin of the
Western Upper Nile in this direction, and
obtained vague cognizanoe of central
African inland sea, possibly larger than
Lake Nyanza, situated at about the third
degree of north latitude.
"M. Gentz's account of his visit to
Mile. Time at Cairo is picturesque and
characteristic. When he asked his way
to her abode he was directed by the don.
key boys, who all knew her we'll as the
"Dutch Countess" who made her dwell
ing almost hospital for their animals
when wounded or sick. The house itself
was ruinous from without; through tor
tuous passages the visitor found himself
in court with three palm trees in it
donkeys summing themselves on stone
steps, negro slaves, boys and girls, lying
on the ground, big women from the Sou
dan adjoining themselves with bits of
broken window-glass, long-haired Nubian
hounds, and an old white bearded Barber
who acted as porter. The lady, dressed
in Oriental mourning habits, and wear
ing an expression of deep sadness on her
countenance, occupied a twilight saloon
which had been an ancient harem, with
marble floor and quaint eastern furniture.
Her most interesting accessories however,
were the eighteen ethnographical speci-
mems, children of different tribes of the
interior, who had voluntarily followed
her, in order to escape from the doom of
slavery to their native homes.
cit was told me tsays the narrator) by
missionary who had met Mile. Time in
the interior of Africa, that she had often
taken up severely wounded slave on the
animal on which she had been riding, and
proceeded herself for hours long on foot.
wading through deep marshes. Mile,
Time was very compassionate. When
drew (he continued, speaking of his in
terview with her while at Cairo, she sat
in Arabian fashion, looking on the ground,
and was never tired of telling me her ex-
periences. The great marsby tracts of
the Upper Nile regions had recalled the
memories of her Dutch home. Again had
the endless green flats on which her child
ish eye rested, risen before her minds eye
But she often felt that she had more than
| enough of green, and turned with long
ing to the thought of the yellow, parohed
up deserts of Sahara"