The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan: a compendium prepared by officers of the Sudan government, Vol. 2 (of 2)Sudan. Wizarat al-Naql wa-al-Muwasalat
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The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan: a compendium prepared by officers of the Sudan government, Vol. 2 (of 2)
Sudan. Wizarat al-Naql wa-al-Muwasalat
Sudan -- Description and travel; Sudan -- History
Garada | 1 | 52 |Meshra. Road enters dura 1½ miles
| | |from river; narrow path through
| | |thickets.
| | |
Marzuga | 2 | 54 |Meshra.
| | |
| 5 | 59 |Bush ends. Road enters open sandy
| | |desert which stretches down to
| | |river, on banks of which fringe of
| | |doms, ½-1 mile wide.
| | |
El Rimta | 3½ | 62½ |Arab encampment. (No meshra.) Road
| | |close to river. Road runs along
| | |river bank through doms and
| | |cultivation for ½ mile, then open
| | |sandy desert with sunt and tundub
| | |right down to bank; sand hills.
| | |
_El Awadi_ | 3½ | 66 |Meshra (very good). Good shade for
| | |camp. Heavy going for guns. No
| | |road.
| | |
| 10 | 76 |_Good meshra_. No signs of
| | |cultivation.
| | |
_Adarama_ | 4 | 80 |Meshra opposite Adarama.
| | |
| 3 | 83 |Ferry for Adarama. A fringe of
| | |bush, about 1 mile broad, along
| | |river; outside this, open flat
| | |desert with a few tundub bushes.
| | |Road at times 2 miles from river,
| | |across bends, and approaches it at
| | |mile 97.
| | |
| 14 | 97 |_Meshra_, very good (rocky bed);
| | |shady camp. Fringe of bush
| | |impenetrable (except at meshras)
| | |along bank, about 10 yards broad.
| | |This continues for a long
| | |distance. Road close to river.
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