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
| | |ruins.
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20.—GEDAREF TO GALLABAT.
BY COL. COLLINSON AND CAPTAIN H. H. MORANT, 1898.
(_Corrected up to_ 1900.)
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| Miles. |
Place. +-------------+------+ Description.
|Intermediate.|Total.|
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Gedaref | — | — |From Gedaref the road usually
| | |taken leads in a S.E. direction,
| | |and passes through much
_Wells_ | 2¼ | 2¼ |cultivation to wells situated in a
| | |khor midway between the villages
| | |of Dalasa and Gabeisha. From here
| | |the road continues to pass through
| | |rain cultivation, which extends on
| | |both sides of the roads more or
| | |less continuously almost as far as
| | |the eye can reach until 6 or 7
| | |miles from Shasheina, after which
| | |only occasional patches are seen.
| | |
Shasheina | 14¾ | 17 |Several groups of tukls belonging
(Rest house) | | |to Debania and Takruris on western
| | |slope of a low ridge. Two good
| | |wells with any amount of good
| | |water, roughly 30 to 40 feet down.
| | |
| | |Leaving here the track skirts the
| | |bottom of the ridge and leads in a
| | |southerly direction over stony,
| | |bad going for about 2 miles, when
| 7 | 24 |it bends to S.E. and passes over
| | |an open plain to the E.; on the W.
| | |forest begins. The wells of
| | |Amzuani and Galaat Eila are passed
| | |2½ miles and ¾ mile to the E. of
| | |the track.
| | |
| | |J.
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