Bird Hunting on the White Nile: A Naturalist’s Experiences in the Soudan (1902)
Witherby, Harry F. · The Office of Knowledge (London) · leaf 45
‘42 hg Bird Hunting on the White Nile. current carries them to Omdurman, where they get a good price for the wood as fuel, which is exceedingly ‘scarce near the town. Besides the sailing boats and rafts, steamers ply up and down the White Nile at least three times a month, to carry passengers, and… … to the troops stationed at various points. Now that a channel has been cut through the Sudd on the upper White Nile the river is navigable for 1000 miles south of Khartoum. From Cairo to Khartoum is some 1500 miles by river. Some day when channels have been cut through the cataracts, by no means a…
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