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Title: The lake regions of central Africa. A record of modern discovery
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Geddie, John, 1848-1937
Subjects: Rivers -- Africa Africa, Central -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) : T. Nelson and Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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any other man we are chieflyindebted for the complete solution of the mystery ofthe Nile. This is Ismail Pasha, the ex-viceroy ofEgypt. Now that he has fallen hopelessly from hishigh estate, and has himself become a wanderer andan exile, his great services in the cause of discoveryand international commerce may be heartily acknow-ledged. His career has been a failure, relieved by bril-liant flashes of success. If he has deserved ill of hispeople, to whom he owed his first duty, he has de-served nobly of science. He bas overwhelmed Egyptwith debt, and ground it- people into the dust withburdens heavier than they could hear: but he intro-duced to them the light of Western knowledge ; hel.nilt the Suez Canal, and he sought out and an-nexed the sources of the Nile. For twenty years anarmy of European pioneers and explorers in the khe-dives pay or under his protection have been workingtheir way southward, mapping out lakes and rivers,Pounding set t lements, capturing slave-gangs, until now
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A START FOR THE LAKES. 29 the whole extent of the Nile valley, from the equatorto the Mediterranean, owns the sway of Egypt,and is open to the influences of commerce and civil-ization. Every one has heard of the series of cata-racts that obstruct the navigation of the riverbetween Assouan in Upper Egypt and Khartoumin the Soudan. Among the many schemes under-taken by Ismail Pasha in pursuance of his grandidea of making Egypt coextensive with the Nilewas that of constructing a ship incline over theFirst Cataract, and running a line of railway fromWady Haifa, near the Second Cataract, to Khartoum,and ultimately, perhaps, to the great lakes. Thegreat work, we believe, has actually been begun;but considering the financial condition of Egypt it isnot likely that any one will be privileged, during thepresent generation, to travel express in a comfortablerailway carriage from Cairo to the margin of theVictoria Nyanza! On the journey we are about to take we must, likethe first pioneers, be co

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