George Melly

"Khartoum and the Niles", engraving from George Melly, Khartoum and the Blue and White Niles, Vol. I (London: Colburn, 1851), frontispiece. Public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Caption cropped; no colour or grayscale filter applied. Image source. In late December 1850 an English family rode out of the Bayuda Desert and crossed to the meeting of the two Niles. Their son, George Melly, was twenty. He kept a journal, and the next year he published it in London as Khartoum and the Blue and White Niles. His chapters on the town give a close, dated description of Khartoum in the middle of the Turco-Egyptian period. (Melly, ch. V–VI) ...