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ISMAILIA.

A NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITIONTO CENTRAL AFRICA FORTHE SUPPRESSION OF THE SLAVE TRADE

ORGANIZED BY

ISMAIL,

KHEDIVE OF EGYPT.

by SIR SAMUEL W. BAKER, PACHA, M.A., F.R.S., F.R.G.S.,Major-General of the Ottoman Empire, Member of the Orders of the Osmanieand the Medjidie, late Governor-General of the Equatorial Nile Basin,Gold Medallist of the Royal Geographical Society, Grande Medaille d'Orde la Societe de Geographie de Paris, Honorary Member of theGeographical Societies of Paris, Berlin, Italy, and America, Author of"The Albert N'yanza Great Basin of the Nile," "The Nile Tributaries ofAbyssinia," "Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon," "The Rifle and Hound inCeylon," etc. etc

Contents.

Chap.

I. Introductory

II. English Party

III. The Retreat

IV. The Camp at Tewfikeeyah

V. Exploration of the Old White Nile

VI. The Start

VII. Arrival at Gondokoro

VIII. Official Annexation

IX. New Enemies

X. Destruction of the Shir Detachment

XI. Spirit of Disaffection

XII. Vessels Return to Khartoum

XIII. Moral Results of the Hunt

XIV. The Advance South

XV. The Advance to Lobore

XVI. Arrival at Patiko

XVII. The March to Unyoro

XVIII. March to Masindi

XIX. Restoration of the Liberated Slaves

XX. Establish Commerce

XXI. Treachery

XXII. The March to Rionga

XXIII. Build a Stockade at Foweera

XXIV. No Medical Men

XXV. I Send to Godokoro for Reinforcements

XXVI. Arrival of M'Tese's Envoys

XXVII. CONCLUSION

Appendix

Index

PREFACE.

An interval of five years has elapsed since the termination of myengagement in the service of His Highness the Khedive ofEgypt, "to suppress the slave-hunters of Central Africa, and toannex the countries constituting the Nile Basin, with the objectof opening those savage regions to legitimate commerce andestablishing a permanent government."

This volume—"Ismailia"—gives an accurate description of the salientpoints of the expedition. My thanks are due to the public for the kindreception of the work, and for the general appreciation of the spiritwhich prompted me to undertake a mission so utterly opposed to theEgyptian ideas of 1869-1873; at a time when no Englishman had held ahigh command, when rival consulates were struggling for paramountinfluence, when the native officials were jealous of foreigninterference, and it appeared that sl

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