| | |The track is merely a single | | |donkey track over deeply cracked | | |cotton soil, and is bad going. | | | Khor Atshan | 17 | 52 |Khor Atshan is crossed; a shallow | | |khor draining into the Dinder. | | | _River Rahad_ | 16 | 68 |Track continues same with | | |occasional bush to the Rahad; a | | |few tukls here. Rahad in pools. | | | _Hawata_ | 3 | 71 |Three miles on down stream, Hawata | | |is reached on the right bank. Here | | |there is a pool a ¼ mile long. | | |Fine sunt trees. --------------+-------------+------+---------------------------------- 26.—ROSEIRES TO ABU SHANEINA BY RIGHT BANK. BY MAJOR C. W. GWYNN, R.E., 1900. --------------+--------------------+---------------------------------- | Miles. | Place. +-------------+------+ Description. |Intermediate.|Total.| --------------+-------------+------+---------------------------------- Roseires | — | — |Mamuria, about 50 feet above the | | |river on one of the steep spurs, | | |which form the escarpment between | | |the general level of the country | | |and the lower river bank. For the | | |first 2 miles the road winds round | | |these spurs close to the river. | | |The road hilly. Then leaving the | | |river it gets into flat country | | |with thick thorn bush. | | | | 2¾ | 2¾ |Path leads to El Damazin, a small | | |village on the river (not | | |visited). | | | _Abu Zago_ | 2¾ | 5½ |Village lies to the east of the | | |road and N. of the khor (not | | |visited).