110 Blue Nile.

Game.

Khor Um Degul, or Agaliin, or Mehara, which lies between the Blue Nile and Binder, and joins the latter near Deberki, was formerly thickly populated and cultivated by the Agaliin ; it was, however, until 1902, quite deserted.

A few villages are now said to be springing up along it, and wells are being opened. There are many talh and hashab gum trees in its vicinity.

North of Sennar-Gileidat villages are more numerous along the Rahad, Binder and Blue Nile, though there is no great extent of cultivation.

In this district, or rather in the southern portion of it, the following species are found : — Elephant (Abyssinian variety, with small tusks), buffalo, rhinoceros, giraffe, loan, kudu, waterbuck, tora hartebeeste. tiang, reedbuck, ariel, gazelle, oribi, bushbuck, warthog, bush pig, lion, leopard, hippopotamus, crocodile, etc.

O.V THE BLUE NILE.

The Blue Nile.* General The Blue Nile rises in the Abyssinian mountains about 60 miles south of Lake Tsana (altitude of Lake Tsana, description. 4,800 feet). Its source was discovered by Bruce in the year 1760. After flowing northwards into the lake at its south-west corner, it finds an exitf again to the south-east, and, after making a big bend to the east, it curls round ♦ Vide also p. 19, and "Itinerary of the Blue Nile," Vol. II. ; also Sir W. Garstin's "Report on the Basin of the Ujiper Nile," Foreign Office Blue Book, Egypt No. 2, 1904.

t Ita course through the lake is said to be plainly discernible.