influents

Updated: April 30, 2025

The track lay down the Wady Dahal and other influents of the great Wady Sa'luwwah, a main feeder of the Damah. We made a considerable detour between south-south-east and south-east to avoid the rocks and stones discharged by the valleys of the Shafah range on our left.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - The Land of Midian — Volume 2

Embarking about 3 P.M. on board Effuenta, we steamed up the Ancobra, which here looks more like a river and less like a lagoon. The settlements become more important, the first being Nfia-kru, or the 'dog-village. There were many influents, which showed like dark breaches in the rampart of verdure. This name may become memorable.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II: A Personal Narrative

Both may be explained by the lay of the Quorra and the Binuwe, especially the latter; it was chronically confounded with the true Nile, whose want of western influents was not so well known then as now. It has been well remarked that, whereas the course of modern exploration has generally been maritime, the ancients, whose means of navigation were less perfect, preferred travelling by land.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2