| | |scattered tukls further on. | | |Country opens out into large grass | | |plains dotted with bushes and | | |clumps of trees. | | | _Nuwar_ | 8 | 139 |A small tukl village to left of | | |track some way back from river. | | |Jebel Beila at right angles to | | |track, N.E. | | | _Wadi Nagami_ | 3 | 142 |A new tukl village of Hamadas | | |rapidly springing up. Over 30 | | |tukls already built. People said | | |to be returning from khors and | | |jebels round. A few sheep, no | | |camels. | | | _Mafasa_ | 1 | 143 |Another rapidly increasing village | | |of Hamadas. Signs of old tukls | | |shown. There are now over 30 new | | |ones.[18] Sheep and oxen, but no | | |camels. About ¼ mile from river. A | | |little dura cultivated. From here, | | |track passes through grass plains | | |and trees for 3 miles, and then | | |gets into thick bush country for | | |another 3 miles, rising slowly the | | |whole time till it suddenly | | |emerges on top of cleared, broken, _Abraham_ | 6 | 149 |and hillocky ground, from which it | | |descends sharply into and crosses | | |the river bed which is dry here. | | |After crossing the river track | | |turns S.W. following round S. edge | | |of a dry shallow branch of the | | |river, which is lined thickly on | | |either bank by good-sized trees | | |through which path winds and | | |gradually works round to N.E. | | |direction. | | |