| | | |appear, varying |(_See_ Chapter | | | |from year to |III, page 85.) | | | |year on this |Landing place | | | |stretch |for goods and | | | | |passengers. | | | | |Headquarters of | | | | |Halfa Province. | | | | |Terminus of | | | | |S.G.R. | | | | | Halfa Camp| 1½| 0 |Nearly opposite|The best |Headquarters of (802 miles| | |Halfa is the |description of |the Sudan by river | | |Quarantine |the river |Railway. from | | |Camp, on a |between the 2nd |Landing place Cairo) | | |sandy slope |and 3rd |close to | | | |cataracts |officers’ mess. | | | |(including both)|Bank 10 to 30 | | | |is by Commander |feet above | | | |Hammill, R.N., |river (226 | | | |whose report |miles from | | | |(1884) is to be |Shellal). | | | |found in H.S.C.,| | | | |Vol. I., | | | | |Appendix O | | | | | | Khor Musa | 5| 5 |The bank |Some additional |Fort now in | | |generally gets |matter, with |ruins. Action | | |more rocky and |large-scale (but|v. Dervishes | | |broken |inaccurate) map |1888. Bank | | | |of the different|broken and | | | |rapids, is given|rocky. Huge | | | |in O.G.H., pp. |boulders. | | | |9-25 | | | | | | Foot of | 1½| 6½ | |The cataract, 8½| 2nd | |_10_½ | |miles in length,| cataract | | | |is impassable | (Shellal | | | |for steamers and| el Amka) | | | |nearly so for | | | | |any but small | | | | |boats at low |