Show vegetation carpets sudan river the search for ways of transportation hy by N which lafell the products of the sudan may reach the outer world attracts attention to a lemark able phenomenon of vegetable life on some of the licad head waters and tribu barles of the NL nile lie thi consists of enormous growths of papyrus and other plants completely covering the streams and forming carpet of ve vegetation t tion two or feet thick beneath which flows the water 1 by small boats is of course prevented by this obstruction aich which Is in places supplemented by N ines and overhanging plants that arch the streams from bank to bank heavy hoods floods occasionally sweep nw anway ay the accumulation nei aci I 1 of plant hut but they are quickly reformed |