It has worn itself a deep bed in the mud of its banks, and is twenty yards wide and in some spots waist deep, at other parts it is unfordable, it contains plenty of fish, and hippopotami and crocodiles abound.
Moero is three days distant, and as Nsama's people go thither to collect salt on its banks, it would have been impossible for me to visit it from the south without being seen, and probably suffering loss.
It had hippopotami, and the poku fed on its banks.
As the day was fine, we expected to see it considerably diminished the next morning, and therefore encamped on its banks, at a place called El Madderidje.
On its banks stand a number of ashour trees, which were now in full flower.
In that part of the suburb, called El Ambarye, we find a good arched stone bridge thrown across its banks, where it is about forty feet in breadth.
Historical Sketch Like other world-rivers, the Rhine has attracted to its banks a succession of races of widely divergent origin.
This river has its name from the singular regular sand-stone balls which are found in its banks, and in those of the Missouri in its vicinity.
Bradbury gives the names of some plants which he gathered on its banks.
The Tonkhanna meanders picturesquely between thickets, and the Lobelia cardinalis was in blossom on its banks.
This shrub was found an infallible guide to the vicinity of the river, when, as sometimes happened, other lines of trees, resembling those on its banks, had led me to a distance from it.
There were the Yarra trees, and fine grassy flats on its banks; and I came to a fine looking piece of rising ground, on the right bank, where the grass was on fire.
My path was thus again crossed by our river flowing northward: we had then travelled 12½ miles, and I encamped on its banks.
The road from Angers to this place is a high raised causeway, paved, and runs parallel to the river, within a few paces of its banks, the whole distance.
The Rio Atrato receives, at twelve leagues distance from its mouth, the Rio Sucio on the east; the Indian village of San Antonio is situated on its banks.
There must be a certain and strong connection between a river and the people that live on its banks; one surely reacts upon the other, and in the process the character of both develops.
Both of its banks, in the vicinity of the mouth, are included in the Gold Coast colony.
All the Nile countries, or those which border on its banks, receive a deposit of soil during the annual inundation.
The water of the Nile is usually of a deep blue color, which changes to a reddish brown during the annual overflow of its banks.
Illustration: Manner of Fishing in the River Yewn] Major Denham passed the river Yeou, and describes the mode of fishing pursued by the inhabitants on its banks, from which they derive a very considerable source of revenue.
The unlooked-for course of the Darling however kept me longer on its banks than I had anticipated; but you can form no idea of the luxuriant verdure of its flats.
The moon now broke forth and lighted up the trunks of colossal trees, the leaves of monstrous Jupati palms which arched over the creek, and revealed groups of arborescent arums standing like rows of spectres on its banks.
From the Napo they emerged into the main Amazons, and, after many and various adventures with the Indians on its banks, reached the Atlantic-- eight months from the date of their entering the great river.
The fact of the Amazons being a limited stream, having its origin in narrow rivulets, its beginning and its ending, has never entered the heads of most of the people who have passed their whole lives on its banks.
I could get little information about the river, except vague accounts of the difficulty of the navigation, and the famito or hunger which reigned on its banks.
We were on elevated ground, and the valley of the Somerset was about two miles to our north, the river roaring sullenly in its obstructed passage, its course marked by the double belt of huge dark trees that grew upon its banks.
The men, being upon a limited allowance of water, suffered from extreme thirst, and deceived by the appearance of a mirage that exactly resembled a beautiful lake, they insisted on being taken to its banks by the Arab guide.
Merchandise in considerable quantities was transported over the mountains on pack horses, and then floated down the Ohio and distributed among the settlements upon its banks.
Susquehanna River, its banks a scene of Indian warfare, 345 et seq.
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