BLACKWOOD'S
EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.
No. CCCCXXXI. SEPTEMBER, 1851. Vol. LXX.
CONTENTS.
| A Campaign in Taka, | 251 |
| My Novel; or, Varieties in English Life. Part XIII, | 275 |
| Disfranchisement of the Boroughs, | 296 |
| Paris in 1851.—(Continued,) | 310 |
| Mr Ruskin's Works, | 326 |
| Portuguese Politics, | 349 |
| The Congress and the Agapedome.—A Tale of Peace and Love, | 359 |
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A CAMPAIGN IN TAKA.
Feldzug von Sennaar nach Taka, Basa, und Beni-Amer, mit besonderem Hinblickauf die Völker von Bellad-Sudan.—[Campaign from Sennaar to Taka, Basa, andBeni-Amer; with a particular Glance at the Nations of Bellad-Sudan.]—Von FerdinandWerne. Stuttgart: Königl. Hofbuchdruckerei. London: Williams andNorgate. 1851.
Africa, the least explored divisionof the globe's surface, and the bestfield for travellers of bold and enterprisingcharacter, has been the sceneof three of the most remarkable booksof their class that have appearedwithin the last ten years. We referto Major Harris's narrative of hisEthiopian expedition—to the marvellousadventures of that modern Nimrod,Mr Gordon Cumming—to MrFerdinand Werne's strange and excitingaccount of his voyage up theWhite Nile. In our review of thelast-named interesting and valuablework,[1] we mentioned that Mr Werne,previously to his expedition up theNile, had been for several months inthe Taka country, a region previouslyuntrodden by Europeans, with anarmy commanded by Achmet Bascha,governor-general of the Egyptian provinceof Bellad-Sudan, who was operatingagainst refractory tributaries.He has just published an account ofthis campaign, which afforded him,however, little opportunity of expatiatingon well-contest