FROM KORTI TO KHARTUM

FROM

UNIV. OF

KORTI TO KHARTUM

A JOURNAL OF THE DESERT MARCH FROM
KORTI TO GUBAT, AND OF THE ASCENT

OF THE NILE IN GENERAL

GORDON'S STEAMERS

BY

COL. SIR CHARLES W. WILSON

K.C.B., K. C.M.G., D.C.L., F.R.S., R.E.

LATE DEPUTY ADJUTANT-GENERAL (INTELLIGENCE
BRANCH), NILE EXPEDITION

SECOND EDITION

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS

EDINBURGH AND LONDON

MDCCCLXXXVI

All Rights reserved

5. E. F.

PREFACE.

THE Journal of the march from Korti to
Gubat, and of the voyage in General Gor-
don's steamers to the junction of the two
Niles, forms part of a daily journal which
I kept whilst employed in the Sudan, and
sent home by nearly every mail.
It was
written up from the field-notes after my
return to Korti whilst all the events which
it describes were fresh in my memory.
was hastily written amidst many interrup-
tions; sometimes the rough field-notes were
copied; sometimes they were corrected to

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