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Title: Five years in the Sudan
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Fothergill, Edward
Subjects: Sudan -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ore breakfast was ready. I determined not tostart for the days shoot without food, so I took myrifle, and went into the forest to stroll about untilthe meal had been prepared, telling my boy I wouldbe back in ten minutes. I had scarcely walked athousand yards when, right across the path, aheadof me, I saw two young koodoo bulls, fighting. Icould scarcely believe my eyes. Here to my handwas the very animal which I had walked mile aftermile to shoot, without ever having a shot at one. Igot the biggest of the two, but he was, unfortunately,a very small specimen, his horns only measuring justover thirty-six inches. However, it was better thannothing, and I returned to Roseires that evening inhigh spirits. I was more glad still when, some threeweeks later, I found that I had to return to Khartoum. The river had sunk steadily lower and lower asthe time went on ; rains had been reported from thesouth for some days, though no effect of this wasevident at the point where we were stationed, and
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• ^ 1 VARIED EXPERIENCES 241 there seemed to be every prospect of a low Nile.Then one night we went to bed with the river asusual; the boat was lying at the bottom of a highbank; half-way up the bank we had a thrivingvegetable garden, and from the windows of our houseit was impossible to see even the top of the steamersmast. When I waked the next morning I fancied fora moment that I was the victim of an hallucination,for there opposite the door of the house swung thesteamer on her anchor. The flood had come at last,and the water had risen metres in about eight hours.The first rise is known as the false rise, and in-variably subsides within a day or two of its appear-ance. It is the flood generated by the first delugein the hills of Abyssinia, advance falls which precedethe regular deluge that eventually gives life to Egypt.The river then falls for about a fortnight, when thesteady rise of the Nile begins. The dark brownflood which follows the clear blue rise of the Nile inEgypt is t

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