Hey Friend!
DESTITUTE in this case, (and many others) means:
'lacking possessions or resources'
The appositive is usually a group of words related to a noun, usually a subject, and describes it in more detail.
The appositive here is a river that flows through Egypt.
Another way of easily spotting an appositive is by looking for commas - if it is separated from the rest of the sentence by commas, it is likely to be an appositive.
B he starts off as a child in India, gets on the Japanese freighter to move the zoo, then when the ship gets caught in a storm he escapes on the lifeboat
One of the boys was mainly trying to hide his identity.
