Naked truths of Naked People: an Account of Expeditions to the Lake Victoria N'yanza and the Makraka Niam-Niam, West of the Bahr-el-Abiad (White Nile)

Abstract

THIS work is more than usually interesting, as the author was an American officer in the Egyptian army attached to the expedition of Col. Gordon, the successor of Sir Samuel Baker. The descriptions of the country and the various tribes who are the “Naked People” of the title, lead us for the most part over ground that has been already brought to our notice by Speke, Baker, and Schweinfurth, but a peculiar charm is contained in this volume, as it introduces to our notice some of the Dramatis Personæ of “Ismailia,” and we find ourselves in the presence of many of the principal characters pourtrayed in the last work of Sir S. Baker; among others, the now well-known slave merchant, Abou Saood.

Naked truths of Naked People: an Account of Expeditions to the Lake Victoria N'yanza and the Makraka Niam-Niam, West of the Bahr-el-Abiad (White Nile).

By Col. C. Chaillé Long, of the Egyptian Staff. (London: Sampson Low and Co., 1876.)