Mechra el Rek

Above its entry into Lake No the Bahr el Ghazal River leads through the land of the Nuer people through immense marshes covered in reeds.

[1] The Rek were the first to ally themselves with the Khartoum ivory merchants and to supply porters, although the Dinka in general were hostile to the Sudanese.

[1] Early in October 1856 the merchant Ali Amouri passed through Mechra el Rek accompanied by Zobeir.

[2] Zobeir returned to Khartoum in October 1858 with a capital of 1,000 Egyptian pounds, his share of the company's profits.

[3] In 1869 Giaffar Mazhar Pasha, governor of the Sudan, sent an expedition south to take possession of Bahr el Ghazal, which had been controlled by the ivory merchants of Khartoum for many years.