Nile: Passage to Egypt Nile: Passage to Egypt Nile: Passage to Egypt is a 1995 educational video game by the Discovery Channel. The game was part of a "co-promotional strategy" which involved a CD-ROM and television program of the same name being released concurrently. The game's released was tentatively scheduled for release in Spring of 1995. Players undertake an interactive journey down the Nile River through modern and ancient Egypt on an Egyptian sailing boat called a felucca. Players explore local culture and interact with customers via virtual tours. The player navigates through a series of 360 degree screens, or can also choose new
Senegal River from the Arabic, either "Wad al-mal" ("River of Treasure", i.e. Gold) or, alternatively, "Wad al-Melli" ("River of Mali") or even, by transcription error, "Wad al-Nill" ("River of Nile"). Other etymological theories for "Senegal" abound. A popular one, first proposed by Fr. David Boilat (1853), was that "Senegal" comes from the Wolof phrase "sunu gaal", meaning "our canoe" (more precisely, "our pirogue"). Bailot speculates the name probably arose as a misunderstanding, that when a Portuguese captain came across some Wolof fishermen and asked them what the name of the river was, they believed he was asking who their fishing boat belonged