In 1900 the greater part of the sudd had been removed by the strenuous labours of Major Peake, and the Nile again became navigable from Khartum to Rejaf.
The sudd was found to be piled up and of almost as close a structure as peat.
As the steamers made southing, the river became narrower and the obstacles to navigation more serious--floating islands of weeds and banked sudd blocking the fairway, leaving it but 50 yards or less in width.
There was found to be large quantities of grass weed and suddin the Nile at no great distance from Fashoda.
The extinct British hippopotamus no doubt found in the Chelsea or other marshes a home as congenial to its tastes as is the sudd of Egypt to its living descendants or allies.
The Bahr-el-Homr in its lower reaches was in 1906 completely blocked by sudd (q.
The Sudan government, however, sent engineering parties to remove the sudd blocks and open out a continuous waterway.
This lake is the home of many sudd plants of the "swimming" variety--papyrus and ambach are absent.
In 1901 and following years the suddwas removed by British officers from the Bahr-el-Ghazal, the Jur and other rivers.
In the vicinity of Bora, the old Egyptian station, it must be at least four miles broad, and the current is almost imperceptible, except where the sudd is so extensive as to leave only one or two small channels.
Many of these floating masses had accumulated opposite the base camp, and bade fair to form another sudd obstruction.
A weekly service of steamers should effectually prevent the sudd from re-forming.
In trying to skirt round the arm of water and sudd that stretches to the south, we soon found ourselves in an apparently boundless sea of one of Nature's truly African inventions, a tall grass, 8 to 10 ft.
Once on the navigable Nile, they had but to go with the current till they reached Fashoda; the waters of the Bahr-el-Ghazal and Lake No happening to be comparatively free from sudd obstructions.
And when at last he was able to get up and look about him, bruised and scratched and breathless, no trace of pigs was there, no trace of bundle; every nut and crust of Sudd and crumb of pulpy Mulgar-bread was gone.
We pushed forward with some curiosity, but unfortunately a sudd of vegetable rafts had closed the passage for a short distance, which required about an hour to clean; this delayed the chase.
We at length arrived at a sudd which the advance boats had cleared for about sixty yards.
He had also commenced a great work, according to the orders he had received from the Khedive, to remove the sudd or obstruction to the navigation of the great White Nile.
The water below the sudd was quite clear from floating vegetation, as it had been filtered through this extraordinary obstruction.
The steamer and fleet are coming through the sudd as fast as the troops clear the channel.
We returned to the junction, and passed the night at a sudd half a mile up our old channel.
I think the river has opened a new channel, and that the passage of yesterday will take us to nearly the same spot above the sudd that we reached by another route last year.
A mile ahead, both channels are closed by a sudd of vegetation, we must thus await until the boats arrive.
The Egyptian troops cut a passage for fifty yards through a sudd in a channel through which the fleet must pass, as there is a shallow that will prevent them from taking the main course of the lake.
To-morrow the whole force will turn out and cut the remaining portion of about 300 yards; there will then be no difficulty except a sudd of about three quarters of a mile between the lake and the White Nile.
We steamed thirteen hours from Tewfikeeyah, with the tender and diahbeeah in tow, and reached the old sudd about twelve miles beyond the Bahr Giraffe junction.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sudd" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
