| | | | |holes, and very bad going. | | | | |Immense quantities of the | | | | |“handal” plant grow in it, | | | | |and in years of good | | | | |rainfall dura is cultivated. | | | | | | | | | |Track, leaving the wadi half | | | | |right, keeps over a gravel | | | | |plain with gentle slopes | | | | |till it strikes the W. Telat | | | | |Abda just outside the low | 2¼ | 24½ | 6 | 67¾ |hills. | | | | | | | | | |There is plenty of “selem” | | | | |in the wadi, giving good | | | | |camel grazing and abundance | | | | |of firewood. | | | | | _Bir | 3 | 27½ | 8¼ | 76 |Track keeps up wadi, Telat | | | | |occasionally making short Abda_ | | | | |cuts to right to get better | | | | |going, as wadi is heavy in | | | | |places, to well at foot of | | | | |rather higher hill on left | | | | |bank which has two stone | | | | |pillars. | | | | | | | | | |The well gives good water, | | | | |but not very much of it. | | | | |About ¼ mile higher up under | | | | |the right bank where the | | | | |wadi forks is another well | | | | |generally used for watering | | | | |camels. From here the roads | | | | |to Abu Tabag and Naba | | | | |branch. That to Naba keeps | | | | |straight on, that is up the | | | | |right-hand branch of the | | | | |fork. Naba is about 17 miles | | | | |from Telat Abda, whence it | | | | |draws its drinking water.