Ten years in Equatoria; . by means of the pods of the Nilotic mimosa, and the skins are dyedwith a sort of holly and Indian saffron. It is a small town of very irregular construction, and with athickly crowded population. Tamania. Kerreri, Od-Alima, and Halfaya have furnaces whichsupply good bricks, mostly utilised in Khartoum. The land tlirough which the Nile flows is, on the whole, flat, but THE WHITE AND BLUE NILE. here and there it hasperceptible eleva-tions or hillocks,formed by rockymasses bare of vege-tation, such as Kate-reul, Rahoyan, Akan,()bd-el-Bassal (heapof onions), &c. The Nile
Ten years in Equatoria; . by means of the pods of the Nilotic mimosa, and the skins are dyedwith a sort of holly and Indian saffron. It is a small town of very irregular construction, and with athickly crowded population. Tamania. Kerreri, Od-Alima, and Halfaya have furnaces whichsupply good bricks, mostly utilised in Khartoum. The land tlirough which the Nile flows is, on the whole, flat, but THE WHITE AND BLUE NILE. here and there it hasperceptible eleva-tions or hillocks,formed by rockymasses bare of vege-tation, such as Kate-reul, Rahoyan, Akan,()bd-el-Bassal (heapof onions), &c. The Nile is formedby the junction ofth(^ Bahr-ol-Abiad, or. THE CATHOLIC MISSION-HOUSE AT KHARTOUJr. White River, the Astapusof the ancients, and of theBahr-el-Azrak, or BlueRiver, so called perhapsfrom the plant indigo {In-(ligofcra tinctoria), fromwhich blue pigment isobtained. On the point of 12 TEN YEARS IN E QUA TORI A. intersection of tlie two rivers by which tho Nile is formed, Khar-toum is situated, IG lat. N., and about 33^ long. W. This townwas the seat of the Government of the Soudan, and the chiefcentre of the commerce which flowed there from Sennaar, fromKordofan, from Darfur, and from the Egyptian Equatorial, andwhich consisted of precious stones of various descriptions, ostrich,feathers, tamarinds, caoutchouc, and ivory. It then had a popula-tion of about GO,000 souls, and many foreign merchants, mostlySyrians and Greeks. The Catholic missions of Central Africa, of which Bishop Comboniis the chief, have an establishment there, under the protection ofthe Austro-Hungarian Government, and on this two smaller onesdepend, one at l^^-
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