text:  Foremost amongst these ranks the expedition sent by the present Viceroy of Egypt to explore the Bahr-el-Abiad or White River above its junction with the Blue River from Khartoum upwards and southwards; after it the interesting travels of Messrs Krapf and Isenberg two missionaries from the Church Missionary Society from Tajura to Ankobar from Ankobar south-west to the neighbourhood of the sources of the Hawash; and after that Mr Krapf's journey from Ankobar north by Lake Haik through Lasta to Antalow and thence to Massouah on the Red Sea