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The Nile, flowing south to north through Egypt to the Mediterranean, is more than 4,000 miles long, by some measures the world’s longest river, though by others a few miles shorter than the Amazon River. Travelers from antiquity onward could trace it upriver as far as Khartoum in Sudan. There it splits into two feeder rivers: the Blue Nile, flowing from Lake Tana in Ethiopia and known to the West since the 17th century, and the White Nile, which dissipates into a vast and impenetrable swamp, the Sudd, that at least through the 19th century no one could figure out how to navigate. The only feasible way to figure out where the Nile began was to start on the eastern coast of Africa well south of the Sudd and move inland looking for lakes and smaller rivers flowing north. But in the early 19th century, the geography of that part of Africa, indeed of most of the continent south of the Sahara, was a complete blank for Westerners.

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