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VIEW OF THE NILE . 
[chap. XVII. 
course of this great river for about twenty miles, and 
distinctly trace the line of mountains on the west bank 
that we had seen at about sixty miles’ distance when 
on the route from Karuma to Shooa;—th§ commence¬ 
ment of this chain we had seen when at Magungo, # 
forming the Koshi frontier of the Nile. The country 
opposite to the point on which we now stood was 
Koshi, which, forming the west bank of the Nile, 
extended the entire way to the Albert Lake. The 
country that we occupied was Madi, which extended 
as the east bank of the Nile to the angle of the 
Victoria Nile (or Somerset river) junction opposite 
Magungo. These two countries, Koshi and Madi, we 
had seen from Magungo when we had viewed the exit 
of the Nile from the lake, as though a tail-like con¬ 
tinuation of the water, until lost in the distance of 
the interminable valley of high reeds. Having, from 
Magungo, in lat. 2° 16', looked upon the course of the 
river far to the north, and from the high pass, our 
present point, in lat. 3° 34° N., we now comprised an 
extensive view of the river to the south ; the extremi¬ 
ties of the limits of view from north and south would 
almost meet, and leave a mere trifle of a few miles not 
actually inspected. 
Exactly opposite the summit of the pass from which 
we now scanned the country, rose the precipitous moun¬ 
tain known as Gebel Kookoo, which rose to a height of 
about 2,500 feet above the level of the Nile, and formed 
the prominent feature of a chain which bordered the 
west bank of the Nile with few breaks to the north, 
until within thirty miles of Gondokoro. The pass upon 
which we stood was the southern extremity of a range 
of high rocky hills that formed the east cliff of the 
Nile ;—thus the broad and noble stream that arrived 
from the Albert Lake in a sheet of unbroken water 
received the Un-y-Ame river, and then suddenly en¬ 
tered the pass between the two chains of hills,—Gebel 
Kookoo on the west, and the ridge that we now occu¬ 
pied upon the east. The mouth of the Un-y-Ame 
