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Page 141 - By convention, signed on Oct. 29, 1888, the Canal was exempted from blockade, and vessels of all nations, whether armed or not, are to be allowed to pass through it in peace or war The Tourist Season in Egypt.
Page 125 - ... invasion of the country in the spring of 1881, the treaty of Kasr-es-Said (May 12, 1881), confirmed by decrees of April 22, 1882, placed Tunis under the protectorate of France. The...
Page 517 - ... senate for four years. There are 13 members of the Lower House, and 8 of the Upper House ; each county sending 2 members to the senate.
Page 214 - Government arc ex-officio members. There is also a Council of Government, consisting of the Governor and twenty-seven members, ten being elected, eight ex-officio, and nine nominated by the Governor.
Page 187 - ... interesting scenes depicted here. Outside the building, on the south wall, is a list of religious festivals, and on the north wall are ten scenes, of which the following are the subjects : 1. The king and his army setting out to war. 2. Battle of the Egyptians against the Libyans, and defeat of the latter. 3. Slaughter of the enemy by thousands, and the prisoners led before the king. 4. The king addresses his victorious army, and an inventory is made of the spoil captured. 5. The march continued....
Page 316 - ... assorters work with a kind of trowel, and their accuracy in detecting and separating the diamond from the eight different kinds of mineral formations which reach them is almost unerring. " The diamond occurs in all shades of color from deep yellow to a blue white, from deep brown to light brown, and in a great variety of colors, green, blue, pink, brown, yellow, orange, pure white, and opaque.
Page 168 - ... Egyptian institutions, which will everywhere meet the traveller's eye, it would be better to describe them. "The shadoof is the arrangement most in vogue. It consists of a long pole, made heavy at one end, and resting on a pivot, at the other end a bucket, or large water-tight basket, which is lowered to the water and filled ; and, as the heavy end of the pole goes down turns out its contents into a little gutter, whence it is worked by the foot into the appointed channels. Sometimes this is...
Page 406 - Conference, signed at Berlin February 26, 1885, by which it was declared neutral and free to the trade of all nations, in conjunction with the rest of the basin of the River Congo. The Powers...
Page i - ACTUAL AFRICA; or, The Coming Continent. A Tour of Exploration. By FRANK VINCENT, Author of " The Land of the White Elephant.
Page vi - ... into her vast and mysterious interior. Nearly all the capitals and important towns (native and foreign) of the seaboard territories, were inspected ; the great island of Madagascar was traversed ; several of the western archipelagoes were visited ; the peak of Teneriffe was scaled in mid-winter; a long excursion was made through the centre of the Boer Republics and British Colonies ; the Nile, Quanza, Congo, Kassai, Sankuru and Kuilu rivers were ascended — the latter for the first time by a...