Lake Victoria to Khartoum 



delta extending from Alexandria to Rosetta, 

 irrigating the country far and wide with its fer- 

 tilizing mud-bearing waters before losing itself in 

 the sea. 



There is little, it is true, of a spectacular char- 

 acter wherewith to enliven these last hundred 

 and fifty miles, unless it be that the traveller starts 

 from this end first, when all the excitement of a 

 strange country, and the great unknown lying 

 beyond, fires his imagination as he gazes at the 

 varying landscapes illumined by the rays of the 

 setting sun, dyeing land and water in a blood-red 

 glow, followed by rainbow colours of an Eastern 

 twilight in its last despairing effort, till darkness 

 falls on everything. 



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