Isaiah 18:2

the sea. the Nile. So called by the inhabitants of the Sudan to-day.

bulrushes. reeds. Not the papyrus, but its companion reed, the ambach, which reaches. height of fifteen feet and has yellow flowers.

scattered and peeled. "tall and smooth-faced".

terrible. They formed the armies of "So" or Sha-baka, and are the backbone of the Anglo-Egyptian army.

whose land the rivers have spoiled: i.e. the "sudd" or swamps (hence Sudan). The Dinka and Shilluk negroes live on the floating cakes of sudd.