A Journey to Central Africa (Notable American Authors) [Library Binding]

Bayard Taylor (Author)

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Publication Date: 1854 | ISBN-10: 0781297559 | ISBN-13: 978-0781297554

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ... TI8IT TO THE CATHOLIC MISSION Ml CHAPTER XXII. VISITS IN KHARTOUM. TUt to the Cathelic Mission--Dr. Knoblecher, the Apostolic Vicar--Moussa BeyVisit to Lattif Pasha--Reception--The Pasha's Palace--Lions--We Dine with the Pasha--Ceremonies upon the Occasion--Music--The Guests--The Franks In Khartoum--Dr. Peney--Visit to the Sultana Nasra--An Ethiopian Dinner--Character of the Sultana. On the day of my arrival, Dr. Reitz proposed a visit to Dr. Knoblecher, the Apostolic Vicar of the Catholic Missions in Central Africa, who had returned to Khartoum about twenty days previous. The Vicar's name was already familiar to me, from the account of his voyage up the White Nile in 1850, which was published in the German journals during his visit to Europe, and it had been my design to propose joining his party, in case he had carried out his plan of making a second voyage in the winter of 1852. He ascended as far as lat. 4 north, or about sixty miles beyond the point reached by D'Arnaud and Werne, and therefore stands at the head of Nilotic explorers. Preceded by two attendants, we walked through the town to the Catholic Mission, a spacious one-story building in a large garden near the river. Entering a court, in the centre of which grew a tall tamarind tree, we were received by an Italian monk, in flowing robes, who conducted us into a second court, inclosed by the residence of the Vicar. Here we met two othei priests, a German and a Hungarian, dressed in flowing Orien tal garments. They ushered us into a large room, carpeted with matting, and with a comfortable divan around the sides. The windows looked into a garden, which was filled with orange, fig and banana trees, and fragrant with jasmine and mimosa blossoms. 'We had scarcely seated ourselves, when the monks ro...

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• Library Binding
• Publisher: Reprint Services Corp (1854)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0781297559
• ISBN-13: 978-0781297554
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