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Identifier: storyofafricaits03brow (find matches)
Title: The story of Africa and its explorers
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Brown, Robert, 1842-1895
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Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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yptians ifBroAvne Avere kept a prisoner, persuaded theSultan to permit him to leaA^e Avith it. ThisAvas done, and m due time he arrived atAssiut, after an absence of nearly three years,during Avhich he had narroAvly escaped deathby disease, poison, or open assassination.* BroAvne Avas the first European to reachDarfur. He saAv the state before it had losta great deal of its ancient importance.Nachtigal, whose reception was so much morehospitable, was the last traveller to visit thecountry as an independent sultanate. For the * Browne published, in 1799, his Travels in Africa,Egjpt, and Syria, from the year 1792 to 1798. He isbelieved to have perished in 1813, during an attack onthe caravan with which he was travelling in Persia.But his fate was never ascertained with certainty, and,owing to the unattractiveness of his literary style, theachievements of this meritorious traveller are now littlemore than an echo—a something of the long-forgottenpast which concerns the historian alone.
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LOWER CONGO CHIEF IN ROYAL ROBES. (From a Photograph hy the Rev. S. D. Darby.) DABFUR. 257 terror of annexation to Egypt, which had beenso long the ever-present terror of Waclay andDarfur, was, all unconscious to the Germanexplorer, about to befall the latter. The history of Darfur, so far as history has preserved any memorials of it, begins with the Dadjo kings, who are said to have reigned in the jVIarra Mountains, and of whom a traditional History ofDarfur. sultanate that he reigned as far east as thebanks of the Atbara. After the usuak civil broils and murderswe come to Abd-er-Rahman, surnamed ElRaschid, or the Just, who was ruler whenBrowne visited the country, though thattraveller experienced little of his supposedjustice. The king had been selected by thepeople out of the usual line of succession,. ;*?•■

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