From the Cape to Cairo; the first traverse of Africa from south to north . DOTTED UNE represents course sefecfedas desirable channel. F. F represents piles. of the d6lris of rushes matted together by a green plant in form like asmall cabbage. We cleared this obstruction, then a second, and athird, etc. At midday we passed into a succession of marshes covered withnenuphar (from the seed-pods of which the natives make a poor flour).There was scarcely any water, and the men dragged the boat over the THE SWAMPS OF THE UPPER NILE 333 mud, into which they sank to their armpits : it is marsh as far a
From the Cape to Cairo; the first traverse of Africa from south to north . DOTTED UNE represents course sefecfedas desirable channel. F. F represents piles. of the d6lris of rushes matted together by a green plant in form like asmall cabbage. We cleared this obstruction, then a second, and athird, etc. At midday we passed into a succession of marshes covered withnenuphar (from the seed-pods of which the natives make a poor flour).There was scarcely any water, and the men dragged the boat over the THE SWAMPS OF THE UPPER NILE 333 mud, into which they sank to their armpits : it is marsh as far as one cansee; from the mud rises a fearful stench. February 1.—We drag the boats over the mud. At last, at twelvenoon, we enter a lake. Water ! water ! and weeds ! but no land. Such is the present condition of the Bahr-el-Ghazal; it resembles in DIAGRAM AS NORTH OF GA6A SHAMBEH. DOTTED LINE represents course selected35 desirable channel. <^^ Sudd formation. k Direction of stream. EF. wire hawser every detail the appalling description of the Bahr-el-Djebel sudd as toldby Captain Gage and Dr. Milne. At present the waters of the Sobat and the Blue Nile are the realfertilizers of Egypt, because they alone bring down the rich alluviumwashed by the rains from the Abyssinian mountains. The waters of theBahr-el-Djebel, Bahr-el-Ghazal, and Bahr-el-Arab, which on the upperreaches of these rivers are thick with sediment, emerge from their tortuouscrawl through the great natural filter (the sudd barriers and swamps) asclear as crystal. Could they be induced to hurry along, much of this 334 FROM THE CAPE TO CAIRO life-giving cargo might be landed on the responsive fields of Egypt andthe Soudan. A weird and terrible land, this mighty basin of the meeting of theBahrs! For countless centuries it has been held as a monopoly bythe hippopotamus and the elephant; bru
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