Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 1 (of 5): In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773Bruce, James
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Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 1 (of 5): In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773
Bruce, James
Egypt -- Description and travel; Ethiopia -- Description and travel; Ethiopia -- History; Natural history -- Ethiopia; Nile River
_Leaves Cairo--Embarks on the Nile for Upper Egypt--Visits
Metrahenny and Mohannan--Reasons for supposing this the
Situation of Memphis_, 43
CHAP. IV.
_Leaves Metrahenny--Comes to the Island Halouon--False
Pyramid--These Buildings end--Sugar Canes--Ruins of
Antinopolis--Reception there_, 69
CHAP. V.
_Voyage to Upper Egypt continued--Ashmounein, Ruins there--Gawe
Kibeer Ruins--Mr Norden mistaken--Achmim--Convent of
Catholics--Denaera--Magnificent Ruins--Adventure with a Saint
there_, 91
CHAP VI.
_Arrives at Furshout--Adventure of Friar Christopher--Visits
Thebes--Luxor and Carnac--Large Ruins at Edfu and Esné--Proceeds
on his Voyage_, 114.
CHAP. VII.
_Arrives at Syene--Goes to see the Cataract--Remarkable
Tombs--The Situation of Syene--The Aga proposes a visit to
Deir and Ibrim--The Author returns to Kenné_, 150
CHAP. VIII.
_The Author sets out from Kenné--Crosses the Desert of the
Thebaid--Visits the Marble Mountains--Arrives at Cosseir
on the Red Sea--Transactions there_, 169
CHAP. IX.
_Voyage to Jibbel Zumrud--Returns to Cosseir--Sails from
Cosseir--Jassateen Islands--Arrives at Tor_, 204
CHAP. X.
_Sails from Tor--Passes the Elanitic Gulf--Sees Raddua--Arrives
at Yambo--Incidents there--Arrives at Jidda_, 239
CHAP. XI.
_Occurrences at Jidda--Visit of the Vizir--Alarm of the Factory--Great
Civility of the English trading from India--Polygamy--Opinion
of Dr Arbuthnot ill-founded--Contrary to Reason and
Experience--Leaves Jidda_, 265
CHAP. XII.
_Sails from Jidda--Konsodah--Ras Heli, Boundary of Arabia Felix--Arrives
at Loheia--Proceeds to the Straits of the Indian Ocean--Arrives
there--Returns by Azab to Loheia_, 294
CHAP. XIII.
_Sails for Masuah--Passes a Volcano--Comes to Dahalac--Troubled
with a Ghost--Arrives at Masuah_, 327
BOOK II.
ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST AGES OF THE INDIAN AND AFRICAN TRADE--THE
FIRST PEOPLING OF ABYSSINIA AND ATBARA--SOME CONJECTURES
CONCERNING THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE THERE.
CHAP. I.
_Of the Indian Trade in its earliest Ages--Settlement of
Ethiopia--Troglodytes--Building of the first Cities_, 365
CHAP. II.
_Saba and the South of Africa peopled--Shepherds, their particular
Employment and Circumstances--Abyssinia occupied by seven Stranger
Nations--Specimens of their several Languages--Conjectures
concerning them_, 381
CHAP. III.
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