Ismailia

shall describe the his

h I have had the honour

as been taken to supp

al Af

nza" and "The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia," but I shall adhere to the simple path taken by the expedition. This enterprise was the natural resu

ns, at a mean altitude of 4,000 feet above the sea level. This large and almost boundless extent of country was well peopled by a race who only requir

otton, coffee, rice, spices, and all tropical produce might be successfully cultivated; but those land

dren were carried into captivity; villages were burnt, and crops were destroyed or pillaged; the population was driven out; a terrestrial paradise was converted into an inferna

ed this desolation were for the most part

rgest trader had about 2,500 Arabs in his pay, employed as pirates or brigands, in Central Africa. These men were organized after a rude military fashion, and

have been industriously working and paying their taxes in Egypt were e

s in a chain of stations, each of which represented about 300 men, he coul

, who could make alliances with the native tribes to attack and destroy their neighbours

y an idea of the extended scale of the slave-hunting operations, to explain that an individual trader named Agad assumed the right over nearly NINETY THOUSAND SQUARE MILES of territo

nd subsequent treatment of the slaves is frightful. The result of this forced emigration, combined with the insecurity of life and property, is the withdrawal of the population from the infested districts. The natives have the option of submission to every insult, to the violation of their women and the pillage of their crops, or they must eith

te Nile when I was first honoured with the notic

tentions, a short time previous to an invitation with which I was honoured by his Royal Highness the P

e of Wales, who represented at heart the principles of Great Britai

ments for the total abolition of the slave trade, not only throughout his dominions, but

draw up a plan for the propos

ions, I received from the K

idering the savage condition of the

ernment, nor laws, nor securi

suppression of the slave-hunters who o

ards future civilization, and will result in the opening to steam navigation of the great equatorial lakes of Ce

due to our authority the countries

rade; to introduce a sys

tion the great lak

depots, distant at intervals of three days' march, throughout

our years, commencing from 1st April, 1869; to whom also we confer the most absolute

preme authority over all those countries bel

t blow at the slave trade in its distant nest. To insure the fulfilment of this difficult enterprise, he selec

ce was to be introduced, and protection was to be affor

denote the superiority of Egypt, and would lay the first stone in the foundation of a n

ers from England, and to launch them upon the Albert Lake, and thus open the resources of Central Africa; to establish legitimate trade in a vast country which had hitherto been a field of rapine and of murder; to protect the wea

a Circassian). The young princes his sons, who are well-educated and enlightened men, took the greatest interest in th

I gave orders for the following vessels to b

teamer of 251 ton

h-pressure steamer of 2

h-pressure steamer of 1

lifeboats, each 30

onstruction by Messrs. Pond & Co., and were to be ca

f which would have to be transported by camels for several hundred miles across the Nubian desert, and

nderstood that his Highness the Khedive was ignorant of such abuses, and that he took prompt and vigorous measures to reform the administration of the Soudan immediately upon receiving information of the misgovernment of that extensive territory. Throughout the expedition his Highness has exhibited a determination to

will form both judge and jury; if their verdict be favourable, I shall have my reward. I can only assure my fellow-men that I have sought earnestly the guida