BLUE NILE AND BINDER RIVER 329 



a native appeared from nowhere, rushed up, broke open 

 a passage, and then guided me to an opening in another 

 fence beyond; it was apparently a sort of "drove- road." 

 I recall many such acts, all evidently springing from pure 

 inherent good-heartedness. 



BIG-GAME OF BLUE NILE AND DINDER 



On their upper waters (and especially along the 

 foothills and the uninhabited frontiers of Abyssinia), 

 Blue Nile and Dinder include some of the best hunting- 

 grounds of Sudan. Within a few marches of Abu 

 Hashim on the Dinder, or beyond Suleil on the Blue 

 Nile, there are found most of the big-game proper to 

 Sudan. But since with a single exception (the Tora 

 hartebeest, and perhaps the koodoo) all are equally 

 common to White Nile, and have already been described 

 upon that river, further detail is unnecessary here. 



Elephants on Blue Nile are notoriously poor in 

 ivory, and, locally, both they and buffalo largely inhabit 

 impenetrable jungles of cane-grass that grow along both 

 these rivers. 



For an excellent and detailed description of big-game 

 hunting on the Blue Nile and Dinder, the reader may be 

 referred to Mr W. B. Cotton's Sport in the Eastern 

 Sudan (London: Rowland Ward, 1912). 



BATELEUR EAGLES SOARING. 



