| | |enable cattle owners to take | | |their cattle down Rahad, but | | |they all prefer to go _viâ_ | | |Gedaref because of the lions. | | |The road is used to a small | | |extent by honey seekers from | | |Gallabat. Cotton soil badly | | |cracked. | | | _Babikr_ | 28½ | 149½ |No water till Babikr-hella; | | |consists of several small groups | | |of huts, cultivation, dukhn, | | |semsem, cotton, dura. | | |Inhabitants Takruris, Fors, | | |Gunjara, &c. Country begins to | | |be more undulating, red | | |sandstone, alternating with bad | | |cotton soil till Gallabat, stony | | |in parts, bad going for camels. | | | _Yunes_ | — | — |Village; well. | | | _Basunda_ | 6½ | 156 | „ „ | | | Kurunkula | — | — | | | | _Wallak_ | 14 | 170 |Sheikh of Gallabat and of these | | |villages—El Sheikh Sheraf | | |Abdalla. Well. | | | _Khor Otruk_ | 9 | 179 |Water in pool in khor. | | | Gallabat | 5½ | 184½ | --------------+-------------+--------+-------------------------------- 29.—GALLABAT TO WAD MEDANI, _viâ_ RIVER RAHAD.[17] BY CAPTAIN C. H. LEWIN, MARCH, 1902.