| | |British |Between | | | |garrison there |Dongola and the | | | |Mar.-July, |foot of the 4th | | | |1885. 1,000 |cataract the | | | |inhabitants. |river runs | | | |Post and |through a plain.| | | |telegraph |Banks low almost| | | |office, |throughout; no | | | |residence of a |obstacles to | | | |British |navigation | | | |inspector, and |except sand | | | |Headquarters of|banks at low and| | | |District and |half Nile. From | | | |residence of |Dongola to | | | |Mamur. The old |Ambugol there is| | | |forts and |a broad strip of| | | |earthworks |cultivation on | | | |built by |one or other | | | |Mustafa Pasha |bank, rarely on | | | |Yawar are still|both at the same| | | |to be seen |time. From | | | |stretching |Ambugol the | | | |round the town |cultivated land | | | | |gradually | | | |Govt. Mosque, |increases in | | | |about 60 |extent; both | | | |permanent shops|banks are | | | |and 3 or 4 |cultivated, and | | | |flour mills |the Dar Shaigia | | | | |is richer and | | | | |better | | | | |cultivated than | | | | |any district | | | | |south of the | | | | |Fayum; the | | | | |vegetation here | | | | |is quite | | | | |tropical in | | | | |character, and | | | | |all the islands | | | | |are cultivated. |