Africa of to-day . e limits of this joint administration (joint inname rather than as a political fact), now calledAnglo-Egyptian Sudan, are not precisely the same aswere those of the States which were formerly line between it and Egypt is now defined at 220north latitude, the Egypt-Nubia boundary; then, goingon round the compass towards the east, the Red Sea,Eritrea, Abyssinia, Uganda Protectorate, Belgian Kongo,French Kongo. North of Darfur the western and thenorthern boundaries are supposed to meet, but the lineis absolutely indefinite. According to the Turkishfirman, issued in
Africa of to-day . e limits of this joint administration (joint inname rather than as a political fact), now calledAnglo-Egyptian Sudan, are not precisely the same aswere those of the States which were formerly line between it and Egypt is now defined at 220north latitude, the Egypt-Nubia boundary; then, goingon round the compass towards the east, the Red Sea,Eritrea, Abyssinia, Uganda Protectorate, Belgian Kongo,French Kongo. North of Darfur the western and thenorthern boundaries are supposed to meet, but the lineis absolutely indefinite. According to the Turkishfirman, issued in 1841, a semicircle, convex towards thenorth, from the Siwa Oasis to Wadai, and cutting theNile between the second and third cataracts, was to bethe frontier; but that line is disregarded by the Sudan-ese government. This Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, as willbe understood by a glance at a map, is a compact terri-tory which brings the whole Nile Valley, from the lakesto the Mediterranean, under the control of Great Copyright, Underwood & Underwood, N. Y. The Beautiful Water Front and Harbour of ZanzibarBritish, French, and other steamers call here regularly CENTRAL AFRICA 137 It is a country about one-fourth the size of Europe,being about nine hundred and fifty thousand squaremiles in area. From south to north it is traversed bythe Nile, and all the great tributaries of that river arepartially or entirely within its borders; and between thesouthern border of Uganda and the northern line of Rho-desia, along both sides of Lake Tanganyika, is the onlystretch of the whole band through which is to pass theCape to Cairo Railway that Great Britain does not nowcontrol. The most elevated portion of Anglo-Egyptian Sudanis a range of low mountains — really little more than hillsas seen from the Red Sea — parallel with the sea andrather close to it. Between the coast and the Nile isthe Nubian desert, a rugged, rocky, barren waste, withhere and there a little scanty vegetation in the w
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