The New York herald., 1872-11-06
ACROSS THE DESERT.
A Herald Correspondents Trip
from the White Nile to
the Red Sea.
THE NUBIAN ARABS.
Life Among the NOmadic African Tribes Who
People the Great Desert.
RAILROAD ROUTES FOR s0UDAN.
The Wants and Resources of
the India of Egypt.
PILGRIMS FOR MECCA.
The "Doorkeeper Of He'll Promoted To
Be Governor Of Berber.
SPLENDOR OF DESERT SCENERY.
Fifteen Days on the Back Of Camel and
Its Varied Experiences.
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The "Doorkeeper Of He'll Promoted To
Be Governor Of Berber.
sPLENDOR OF DESERT SCENERY.
Fifteen Days on the Back Of Camel and
Its Varied Experiences.
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The Napoleon Family Of Nubia and the Beau
tiful Princess Fatima Of Ell Box.

PALACE or THE GOVERNOR GENERAL OF TAKKA)
MoNDERIEH OF SOUAKIN
Red Sea, July Is, 1872.
Adicu Soudan! Adieu to your flames that men
call winds, to your burning Goals that men call
sands! Adleu to your maarial zephyrs your
poisoned stIeamlets, your corrupted pools, your
polluted MOWERS Adieu to all your complex IN
famies; to your extortioh, your extravaganza,
your commerce In slaves, your poisoned cup, your
strangers wrist, and your cruel bastina1oi Adieu
to the sudden Chill the wasting fever, the
enfeebled stomach, and to vaporizlng vitality
Adieu to all these unbridled forces which PROSTATE,
diminish and kill How few like the writer, have
been able to make this last adieu have been able to
stand by the shores Of wholesome and thank
God ''That |. too am not a victimW No reader
pillOwed upon silk and down can appreciate ones
JOY in thus escaping with life. 1t is like being born
into new word-like having stood on the frontier
OF life and death, with the menace of the dark
voyage constantly urging you into the eternal
abvss--and at the last moment to have been
snatched from the mortal peril and dropped into
some ndescrbable Eysium am not tinting or
colOring. | am simply stating how | feel-fasci-
mated with life in three-fo of its phases and
deeply grateful for my fresh inheritance of its joys,
for am truly born again. Ninety per cent OF all
the Europeans perish from the climate--the major
ity from sudden deaths during the first month in
the country! This is worse than war; plague or
famine. After
SIX MONTHS or TRAVEL ON THE WHITE AND BLUE
NILES
I left Khartoum on the 18th of June, on board the
handsome daha-reah OF Ameen Bey kindly fur
nished by Moomtaizze Pacha, Governor General OF
the Soudan. owe many thanks to His Excellency
for timely favors and courtesies, and who, among
trctI
the Soudan, never begrudged an hour to the
HERALD correspondent. 1t is but justice to add
that had secured sweeping frman from Sheriff
Pacha the Prime Minister OF Egypt (as far as that
Office can exist under the viceroyalty OF the Khe-
dve), which document commanded all officials to
extend to me every aid and facility within their
power.
f IsMAIL BEy,
who had spent eight years in the Soudan, aud Mr..
Parsal, the Besch MeI-heade,ztz (chief engneer of
the teegraphs of the Soudan, were route for
Cairo; the first having been called to Lower
Egypt by the viceroy, and the second retiring
voluntarily from climate which had all
but wrecked his health. Both of these
gentlemen had been my friends at Khartoum,
and it was therefore, with great pleasure that we
joined forces for the journey down the Nile. Thus,
in their company, atera voyage OF nearly five hun
dred miles, by river and desert. through mountain
gOrges, over perious sleeps and burning plains,
reached the coral strands OF Suakin in twenty
three days. Let us begin with the beginning and
briefly survey this line of travel which ultimately
must become
ONE OF THE GRAND COMMERCIAL HIGHWAYS OF THE
WORLD
To leave the Soudan little preparation is neces-
sary because little is possible You are not in the
midst OF an oasis OF canned meats and potted
MAMA anffa
housewife. You have only to gather up your shreds
and fragments, your guns and ammunition and
embark with quantity OF rice beans, bread, cof-
fee and tobacco. sheep you find on the way.
hastily prepared and in two days was ready and
on board. Giovanni, the Piedmont Chasseur had
been given an indefinite congo on account OF his
love of rum and had been in high spirits (cognac
from the hour OF his discharge. had, therefore, to
take another domestic. This time 1t was to be
prlnce-nothing below royal blood zibehr is
DoNGoLA PRINCE.
His father was king among the Dongolowie, that
hardy and wicked people living in the great bend
OF the Nile and who have, time out OF mind, fur
nished ninetenths OF the infamous soldicry by
whom the slave trade has been nurtured and
sustained Zibehr was boy of adventure and
man Of travel. But alas his royal blood could not
stand as a substitute for the imperial dollars
80 zibehr suled his quality as
prince by soliciting employment. He came recon-
mendcd by himself, named his qualifications as
savant as White Nile soldier, the only man, in
ine who could suit me. saw that he was a wag,
given perhaps slightly to the sequestration OF his
ncighbors goods but the latter is national trait
from the scullery to the imperial throne room, it
counted less than one in hundred. finally en-
gagged him at IS per month, and paid him an ad
vance To recte the hourly disc0urses OF the
Prince and to recount all his adventures with the
world In Khartoum would be an endless task. The
Prince is o fine specimen OF man. above six feet
in height, broad-shouldered, barebreasted always,
and has three courage marks upon each check
that to say three gashes after the usages Of the
country. Zibehr was a friend OF the famous Don
goaween,
THE EMPEROR MoHAMMED KEHR,
who, about the year 1850, established an empire
on the White Nile and succeeded in banding to-
gether several formidable peoples. The Egyptian
government became frightened at the strength
aud insolcnce Of the parue,au King, and Moosa
Pacba, with or without orders, despatched an am
bassador to bis court to the homages OF Egypt
at his feet. The ambassador was received with a
great feast, and, having established q close in.
timacy with the King, the two rose from the Jyete
together when, In the solitude and darkness Of
the night the consprator turned upon the King
and fouuy assassnatcd him upon the spot, Tbis