A well-annotated account of an extensive journey with views in Khartoum including the native quarter; the battlefields of Kerreri; a tourist steamer; Dinka villages and people, native convicts with leg chains, people and views in Fashoda, Shambé, Tonga and at Austrian and English mission stations; methods of irrigation; crocodile hides drying in the sun; a young woman plaiting straw; and two views of the façade of the Temple of Abu Simbel.