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Bahr-el-Ergig, or M'Bassu river, which flows into the Shari 

 on the right bank. Here it is about thirty yards wide and 

 has steep banks which are thickly wooded. At its junction 



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there is a large island, covered with scrub, which divides 

 the Shari into two channels. 



On one of his hunting expeditions Gosling made his camp 

 some distance up on the left bank of the httle river. He 

 describes the water as dehcious and goes on to say: 

 " Rhino are said to abound here. There is splendid soil 

 along the river for cotton and other crops, and one would 

 have expected it to have been thickly populated as the 

 water runs all the year round. ... I went down to look 

 up the tracks of a lion that passed by early this morning. 

 While there, I was astonished to see a small canoe coming 

 down with two men and two children in it. They had left 



