James Bruce of Kinnaird, having reached a fountain at Gisha (Abyssinia) regarded as the source of the Nile, uses a coconut to drink the water to the health of King George III and Empress Catherine the Great. Engraving by J. Gillray, 1793, after R.M. Paye.

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Bibliographic data

Description:: The place is called Gishe Abbay (meaning sourceof the Nile), according to Bredin; called Geesh by Bruce, loc. cit.
Country location:: Sudan
Date:: 1793
Collection:: Wellcome Collection > Wellcome Collection
Media type:: Drawing
Topics:: History
Contributor:: Paye, Richard Morton, 1750-1821., Gillray, James, 1756-1815.
Sudan Memory ID:: WLC-0000097

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