| | |Chiefly cattle grazing. | | | _El Khema_ | 6 | 186½ |Road joins river at El Khema. | | |Police post to Mokada Abu Zeit; _Mokada Abu | 4½ | 195½ |good camping ground and small Zeit_ | | |village. There is a ford here at | | |low Nile. Two miles further on | | |Musran Island begins and continues | | |to 3 miles of Jebelein. | | | _Meshra Hedib_| 4½ | 200 |Meshra Hedib to Musran Island. The | | |road keeps close to the river | | |bank. The E. channel seemed very | | |much blocked with sudd, only a | | |narrow passage 50 yards wide being | | |visible at times. | | | | | |There is a meshra to Musran | | |Island, 7 miles as the road turns | | |from Jebelein called Zuleit. Hence _Meshra | 17½ | 217½ |the road winds through thick Zuleit_ | | |scrub, with patches of open | | |country right up to the ford at _Jebelein_ | 8½ | 225 |Jebelein. | | | | | |Rocky hills commanding the river | | |about 300 feet high. | | | | | |Grassy plain between north and | | |south ridges. | | | | | |Village on E. of southern ridge. --------------+-------------+------+---------------------------------- 33.—KHARTOUM TO GULE, _viâ_ MANAGIL AND SEGADI. BY CAPTAIN H. H. S. MORANT, FEBRUARY, 1902.