Africa . built on the left bank of the Bahr-el-Azrakor Blue Nile, about two miles south from its confluencewith the White Nile or Bahr-el-Abiad. These names,however, are not well chosen for the rivers at this point,since the White Nile preserves a pale opaque azure, whilethe eastern tributary is dyed a deep red with the earththat it brings down from the highlands of Abyssinia. Thewell-built government houses and residence of the governor-general of this province of the Sudan face the river-side,opposite a point at which a quay gives easy access to the ^ By levelling from Suakin through Berber,
Africa . built on the left bank of the Bahr-el-Azrakor Blue Nile, about two miles south from its confluencewith the White Nile or Bahr-el-Abiad. These names,however, are not well chosen for the rivers at this point,since the White Nile preserves a pale opaque azure, whilethe eastern tributary is dyed a deep red with the earththat it brings down from the highlands of Abyssinia. Thewell-built government houses and residence of the governor-general of this province of the Sudan face the river-side,opposite a point at which a quay gives easy access to the ^ By levelling from Suakin through Berber, by Isiuail Bey in 1873, NUBIA. 223 river steamers. The streets that border the Nile lookdown from a bluff height: here and there are statelypalms and large gardens of citrons and orange trees, andneatly whitewashed houses relieved by minaret andmosque give it the appearance of an Egyptian city. Itsstreets within, however, are narrow and badly drained ;pools of water formed in the rainy season throw off a. KHARTUM. deadly fever miasma. The population is a motley one ofTurks, Greeks, Jews, Egyptians, Nubians, Abyssinians,Gallas, and Negroes. The Europeans are chiefly Greeks(a few are Italians) engaged in the sale of wines, raki,beer, and provisions. A regiment of the ShiUooks, a warlike race of jet blacknegroes of fine stature, inhabiting the regions of the Nileabout the confluence of the Sobat, is maintained at Khar-tum, and is found to be of great service in enforcing the 224 COMPENDIUM OF GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL. payment of tribute among the Arabs of the province, bywhom they are feared and hated. 3. Senaar—Tlie Country hetween tJic Blueand White Nik. In advancing still higher up the Nile basin we shallfirst take the country watered by the Blue Nile, whichhas of late years been explored by Ernst Marno and theadventurous M. Schuver; and then, in company chieflywith Schweinfurth, pass in review the remarkable regionlying on the left bank of the Bahr-el-Abiad. The wide domain on
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