--------------+---------------------+-------------------------------- | Distance in miles. | Names of +-------------+-------+ Places. | | Total | Description. |Intermediate.| from | | |Merowe.| --------------+-------------+-------+-------------------------------- El Dueim | 3 | 3 |A small scattered village; a | | |large white-domed tomb makes it | | |visible for some distance. | | | Sagag | 1 | 4 |A compact hamlet, mostly of | | |straw huts, ¼ mile from the | | |river. The banks, which for the | | |last 4 miles have been bare, | | |here become studded with palms. | | | Gereif | 1 | 5 |A collection of wells and | | |sagias from which the ground is | | |cultivated. The uncultivated | | |ground is covered with coarse | | |grass. A low range of hills | | |here touches the south of the | | |road. | | | Nurri | 2 | 7 |This village extends a | | |considerable distance inland. | | |Near it, to the south of the | | |road are 11 pyramids. Soon | | |after leaving them the alluvial | | |ground over which the road has | | |hitherto passed gives place to | | |sand. | | | Belal | 1 | 8 |A large well-built village. The | | |road here runs close to the | | |river between small patches of | | |cultivation and a track of very | | |broken rocky ground, which | | |comes to within ¼ mile of the | | |river. This stony tract is | | |about 50 feet above the | | |alluvial ground. At the east