Crossword-Solution: BAHR 4 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Above the fifth cataract, above the meeting of rivers in Sennar, up the Bahr el Abiad, into the far unknown of Africa, I went.

Hardly had I raised my head to listen more attentively when a confusion of voices arose from the Arabs' camp, with a sound of many feet, and in a few minutes they rushed into my camp, shouting to my men in the darkness, "El Bahr! El Bahr!" (the river! the river!) We were up in an instant, and my interpreter, Mahomet, in a state of intense confusion, explained that the river was coming down, and that the supposed distant thunder was the roar of approaching water.

The Arab name, "Bahr el Aswat" (black river) was well bestowed; it was the black mother of Egypt, still carrying to her offspring the nourishment that had first formed the Delta.

His country lay between the Settite River and the Bahr Salaam; thus without his invitation I might have found it difficult to traverse his territory.

Bahr El Abiad First Voyage on the Nile--The Starting--Description of the River and the Country--Meet a Hostile Vessel--A Naval Engagement--Difficulties and Dangers--Judicial Procedure--Messages from the King of Uganda--His Efforts to get us back--Desertion--The Wanyoro Troops--Kamrasi--Elephant-Stalking--Diabolical Possessions.