| | |here is the residence of Sheikh | | |Mohammed Talha, head Sheikh of the | | |Batahin, who are the principal | | |inhabitants. There is a police Abu Deleig | 10 | 89 |officer and police post here. --------------+-------------+------+---------------------------------- 18.—RUFAA TO GEILI. BY COLONEL HON. M. G. TALBOT, JANUARY, 1903. There are at least three roads. The western goes by Abu, or El, Gassas, a district apparently included in another called Rotamat (I am not sure of this). Last water at Abu Gassas. It afterwards passes some cultivation, but no water except in autumn. The eastern goes by Tundub and Wad Arrak, where last water is, and joins the middle road about 10 miles from Geili. The middle one was followed, and is described below. No real road to begin with, simply tracks from village to village. For the first 9 miles, as far as the village of Kemeilab, through cultivation all the way. Several villages on either side of road. Then through thin laot bush, but plenty of cultivation round about. ----------+---------------+---------------+--------------------------- | Hours. | Miles. | Place. +--------+------+--------+------+ Description. | Inter- |Total.| Inter- |Total.| |mediate.| |mediate.| | ----------+--------+------+--------+------+--------------------------- Rufaa | — | — | — | — |Track is good all the way; | | | | |no steep gradients, | | | | |difficult khors, nor thick | | | | |bush. Probably bad after | | | | |rain. | | | | | _Tunbul El| 4 | 4 | 12 | 12 |Good sized village of Jaalin_ | | | | |Jaalin, with well. There | | | | |are two other villages | | | | |close by called Tunbul El | | | | |Agada and Tunbul El Eishab. | | | | |Cultivation all the way; | | | | |many villages seen. | | | | | _Abu Zeid,| 3 | 7 | 9 | 21 |A poor village. Well 250 Wad Um | | | | |yards S.E.; village of Balli_ | | | | |Musaiab close by to N. | | | | |Track continues mostly