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Scientific American, Vol. 101, No. 11 (September 1909) (1909)

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f the river. Having cleared the top of the sudd "block," the few weeks a space of the Nile once clear of it will are provided with steel cables or hawsers, saws, and bf. completely hidden by a mass of waving papyrus, axes, and carry crews of natives who are experts in men are landed with large saws… … The chief growths in the sudd are papyrus and Detail view of water papyrns or sudd. tiger or elephant grass, a kind of bamboo growing to a height of 20 feet or more. To these climbs a The way in which the channel is cleared is as fol- attach themselves to the papyrus stalks, and form creeper of a…

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