The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-08

arose Genera! Starring had become separated from
sne party ana great fears entertained that he
during these simooms, FOR sandspouts are ire
quent and they make clean swath Of man and
General rom Rfs guide finally rescued the
s SIMEON, blows Tor sweeks, when travel is impos-
We stopped under the shelter q, some Ahahdah
nuts ana iouy palms, by the bank OF the Nile,
while the waves were running very high. Our host
several naked African cherubs remarkabe for ther
big bodies and short legs He told us with air ri
und0ubted truth that one OF his children had been
swallowed by a crocodile while playing on tho hank
Of the river and that he had also lost sister vears
before in the same manner. His life is a fair ex
emplar of the existence of the riparian Abahdahs
He had two mud huts and one matted tent and
cultivated ground on the opposite bank OF the Nile.
Among these people the women work like the men,
while the small infants are conided TO the care Of
children six seven years OF age.
We dined that night by
THE ROAR OF THE FIFTH CATARACT, sHELAL HI
HOMAR
Cataract OF the Wild Assess. This Sheal Is simply
q system of tortuous rapids rushing through IT.
regular, dangerous rocks. Here again we came
near losing General Starring, and Mr. Morris. too.
manned till after dark. We slept the night OF the
Twelfth day at the postal village of the province,
having made march OF fifty miles during the day.
me only post by which letters are borne from the
tna 1a 70 Korosko is the dromedary post; then
with the bag for two hours and delivers It to his re-
iis, ana 1 tnms the system is continued to Roda,
when the rail carries It to Cairo. The extraordi
nary sum or seven dollars was paid for postage
upon HERALD letter addressed from Korosko to
Cairo. The same envelope bore other letters but
not OF enough weight to make much difference
On the 27th OF January we met many caravans
this time household trains
STILL ON THE ROUTE.
The telegraph operator at Berber was transporting
his harem across the desert 1t was novel sight
canvas awnings, on the back of a camel, while q
portion OF the train had beds arranged at the same
elevation, containing mothers and sucking infants
slowed among pillows and linen all suffering the
rocking motion OF the beast. We remained the
night in Guineyatoo, hourshing mud village,
where the construction Of the huts, like that OF ali
Arab villages very much resembles the cabin OF the
Hungarian peasant. We made late start on
the 2sth OF January, and rode through palm groves
and tropical jungles, shooting at crOcOdieS and
grouse from the rivers bank, suffering much from
the heat. We rode over "the plain of the hippo
O'Clock, guests OF the village OF the Sheiks UNCLE
We were treated to sherbets of sugar and coffee.
There NOTED
SUBLIME PHENOMENON
To northward were five equi-distant sandspouts
rising perpendicularly to great height, and losing
their swelling capitals in the Clouds They seemed
to stand as columns to the vault OF the sky and the
supernatural architecture was further heightened
by mirage lakes whose waters seemed to dash
against the pillars as the green of doom-palms
waived through the coonnade. The whole specta-
once reared by the bank Of the mighty river saw
one sandspout which assumed the form Of bal
loon, dragging Its mouth over the plain
We met Affair, the United States Consular Agent
at KhartOum, who had come out to welcome us. We
thing for our comfort He is one Of the Oldest and
wealthiest merchants Of the Soudan. Following
closely upon his heels came the Governor OF
Berber, with thirty natives equerries habited
in white, who assisted him to dismount from his
white ass. The venerable Governor babe us well
come, and we then started for the MOudineh (the
Governors palace. Thousands of the villagers
gazed at US with impudent curiosity as we rode
through the streets OF Berber on our camels.
ARRIVED AT THE GATE OF THE PALACE,
300 soldiers, uniformed in white and armed with
polished muskets, were drawn up in open ranks at
present arms. They saluted US with a roll OF drums
and a sounding OF bugles, and we then dismounted
before the door Of the audience chamber among
hundreds Of janissaries, pages, lackeys and minor
menials.
We were assured by the Governor that we had
accomplished the trip from Cairo In the shortest
time ever made by white men-in thirty-one days.
1t was, in word, very bitter physical experience
across the desert, and we contemplated 1t with Joy
only after 1t had been finished. Over four hundred
miles OF burning sands, through regions marked by
savagery and the bones OF persisted travellers, had
gutted our mental appetites with horrors even II
one had not been totally unstrung by 104 hours in
the saddle.
NorE-Arabc erhography is the most arbitrary Of an
spelling when reduced to English sounds The few words
lhave ventured to In the native tongue are all OF
them susceptible to at least halt dozen forms OF orho
graphy and sylabicaton. 'Sheyk" is also spet shekh,
sheik sheayk" &C.. and other words, generic, geo.
graphical and TECHNICAL are equally pabe.