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AFfilCAN WANDERI^fGS.

CHAPTER I.

Meeting of the Brothers.— Fever in Chartum.— Travelling Projects. — Present

from tlie Pascha. — The Divan,— A German Sultan.— Party at Solimau

Effendi's.— l^eparations for Departure.

Fou about a year I and my youngest brother had resided at Chartum, the capital of Bellad-Sudan, in tlie district of Sennaar,

at wliich place we had arrived after a journey of three months,

from Cairo. Of all my brothers, Joseph was the dearest to me, and loved mc in turn most devotedly. After passing his medical

examinations in Berlin, lie had conic to pay me a visit and make

himself acquainted with the remarkable diseases of Egypt, ere he

settled down for life.

In the tavern of Guerra, in Cairo, he recognised me the instant

he entered the room ; wliereas I took him ibr some impertinent

Frenchman, when in his joyful surprise he st;irc.d at me from head

to foot, and laughed at tlie rage 1 sliowed, and the furious look

with which I strode towards him to demand wliat he meant, and

call him to account on tlie spot, AVe had not met for eight years,

and besides that he had meanwhile grown into manhood, his whole

expression of countenance was changed, as a severe sabre cut he had received in a duel liad severed the risible muscles of one

side of his face, and the poor fellow could only laugh with

the other side of it. The joy of tliis meeting, in anotiier

quarter of tlie globe, proved so overpowering to both of us,

that at first the wine would not go down, for all that many con-

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