The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21). rn VOLUME XVII. Later National Literature, Part II.
XIV. Travellers and Explorers, 1846–1900§ 28. Egypt
Another part of Africa long had received attention: Egypt. The list of American travellers and explorers in that ancient land is almost beyond recording. Here again Bayard Taylor is found with his A Journey to Central Africa (1854), and George W. Curtis wrote Nile Notes of a Howadji (1851); W. C. Prime gives us Boat Life in Egypt and Nubia (1868); Bishop Potter, The Gates of the East, or a Winter in Egypt (1876).
But the most prominent American in the Egyptian region was Charles Chaillè-Long, who carried on some extensive explorations along the upper Nile. His chief literary works are: Central Africa… an Account of Expeditions to Lake Victoria Nyanza, etc. (1877), The Three Prophets: Chinese Gordon, Mohammed Ahmed (el Maahdi), Arabi-Pasha (1884), and My Life in Four Continents (1912).