| | | |almost | | | | |impossible on | | | | |account of the | | | | |shelving banks.| | | | |On these last, | | | | |as the water | | | | |falls, a crop | | | | |of grass | | | | |springs up, | | | | |which affords | | | | |grazing to | | | | |large flocks of| | | | |cattle and | | | | |sheep. Further | | | | |up stream the | | | | |channel gets | | | | |narrower, but | | | | |it is still | | | | |over a mile in | | | | |width. Both | | | | |banks are low | | | | |and fringed | | | | |with thin and | | | | |low thorny | | | | |jungle, and | | | | |except for the | | | | |isolated hills | | | | |of Jebel Auli | | | | |and Jebel Gurun| | | | |the country is | | | | |a dead flat. On| | | | |leaving | | | | |Omdurman the | | | | |water channel | | | | |at once opens | | | | |out, at high | | | | |Nile, to 2 or 3| | | | |miles, course | | | | |for steamer | | | | |close to R. | | | | |bank |