Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1891 — 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 Nile 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 is diversified with mountains and forests, green hillsides, and bright brooks. For stretches of many miles the river is broad and slow. In other parts are wooded islands and 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 falls. Below the lake, 1 fbr more than one hundred miles, the stream is broad and 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 the Albert lake, it passes Wadelai, the present head-quarters of Emin’s government— Colonel Prout in ftoribnor.