| | |immediately under the highest | | |point. From here to the Atbara | | |there is no track and no water. | | |Bushes mark the drainage lines, | | |otherwise the plains are bare of | | |all but grass. Much of the ground | | |is cracked and consequently bad | | |going. The route followed | | |eventually struck the well marked | | |track made by the Dervishes from | | |Dimiat, and kept along it to | | |Asubri. At 2½ miles from Asubri | | |the main road along the left bank | | |of the Atbara is crossed. Soon | | |after, the track descends into the | | |broken ground which fringes both | | |banks of the Atbara to a width of | | |2 or more miles. The actual banks | | |at Asubri are 15 to 20 feet high | | |and 300 yards apart. Crocodiles | | |are plentiful. The ford in | | |January, 1901 was 120 yards long | | |and 2½ feet deep. | | | _Asubri_ (R. | 57 | 237 |Hamla took 19 hours from El Sadda. Atbara) | | |A nice shady camp on right bank | | |for a very small party. Mosquitos | | |few, but particularly poisonous. | | | | | |Asubri is the name of a strip of | | |land extending for some miles | | |along both banks of the Atbara. On | | |the left bank, near the ford, is | | |an old cemetery, and ½ mile S. is | | |a building formerly occupied by | | |Abdel Rahim Wad Abu Dugal, the | | |Dervish Emir in command of their | | |post here in 1897 and early in | | |1898. | | | | | |On leaving camp, the track winds