The White Nile.

CHAPTER XXV.

VOYAGE UP THE WHITE NILE.

Departure from Kliartoum— We enter the White Nile— Mirage and Landscape— The Consul returns— Progress— Loss, of the Flag -Scenery of the Shores— Territory of the. Hassaniyehs— Curious Conjugal Custom— Multitudes of Water Fowls— Increased Puchnessof Vegetation— Apes— Sunset on the White Nile— We reach the Kingdom of the Shillook Negroes.

"At night l.e heard the lion roar And the hyena scream, And the river-horse as he crashed the reeds Beside some hidden stream ; And it passed like a glorious roll of drums Through the triumph of his dream."— Longfeixc w.

The men pushed away from shore with some difficulty, as a violent north-wind drove the boat hack, but the sail once unfurled, we shot like an arrow between the gardens of Khartoum and the green shores of the island of Tuti. Before