Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1889 — The Way To the Equatorial Provinces. [ARTICLE]

The Way To the Equatorial Provinces.

Tho routes are two. The quicker is down the Red Sea to Suakim; thence by caravan two hundred and forty miles to Berber; thence by nuggar or steamer to Khartoum; thence one thousand and ten miles to Lfulo. ulso by water. A very quick trip without delays would be forty days. The other "onto is by river five hundred miles to Assouan, six miles by rail aroi.nd the flrst eaiaract. one hundred and twenty miles by water to Korosko, nine days by caravan to Berber, q.nd |he rest of the journey as before.' The desert journey from Korosko to Abou H iinmed is a hard one, with water at but one place on the route: but it is taken.to eut off 'the great bend' ’•of tho Nile, which is full of rapids.—Colonel Prout, in Scribner. • 1