| | | | | Abu Zeid |8 | 208 |Abu Zeid |Passage only |Police Post, | | _333_ |village. Bank |practicable at |east bank. | | |continues |low water. The |Scattered trees | | |fringed by |Abu Zeid ford |and bush, 1 to | | |several |is a most |1½ miles in | | |hundred yards |serious |width, commence | | |of reeds. |obstacle to |again. | | |Baggara Selim |navigation. At | | | |country |this point, for| | | |begins; |a length of | | | |sparsely |some 4 miles, | | | |inhabited, |the river | | | |with thick |spreads out in | | | |bush and trees|a broad and | | | |behind. Good |extremely | | | |game country |shallow sheet, | | | |begins |at low Nile | | | | |about 1,200 | | | | |yards in width.| | | | |Upon the bed, | | | | |masses of what | | | | |are called | | | | |“fresh-water | | | | |oysters” | | | | |collect. The | | | | |broken shells | | | | |form, with a | | | | |shingle, a kind| | | | |of | | | | |“conglomerate,”| | | | |almost as hard | | | | |as rock, and | | | | |which nothing | | | | |but a specially| | | | |adapted dredger| | | | |could remove. | | | | |In March and | | | | |April, in very | | | | |low years, the | | | | |depth of water |