Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1889 — The Beautiful Country of the Upper Nile. [ARTICLE]

The Beautiful Country of the Upper Nile.

For the first five hundred or six hundred miles of its course, from the Victoria Nyanza to a point somewhere north of Lado, the Nii'e is known to the Arabs as the Bahr-el-Gebel, the river of the mountains. This is the most beautiful part of the river. The country iB diversified with mountains und forests, green hillsides and bright brooks. For stretches of many miles the river is broad nd slow. In other parts are wooded isl nds nnd foaming rapids. About half-way between the Victoria Nyanza and Lado the Nile flows through the northern end of the Albert Nyanza. Above the Albert lake are the Murchison fulls. Delow tho lake, for more than one hundred miles, the stream is broad und placid, traversing a comparatively level country and always navigable for vessels drawing four or five feet. In this part of its course, about forty miles below tho Albert lake, it passes Wadelal, the present head-quarters of Emin’s government.—Colonel Prout. ! in Scribner.