The people here are a | | |mixture of Jaalin, Awamer, &c. | | |Very fair grazing for camels on | | |arak; there is little or no grass | | |here or anywhere else this year. | | | | 7½ | 43½ |On leaving the Id the same sort of | | |country continues, cultivation and | | |scattered arak bush, the track | | |still keeping the same S.S.W. | | |direction. At 7½ miles the road to | | |El Ribi branches off half left, _Id El Kereil_| 2½ | 46 |and 2½ miles further on Id El | | |Kereil is passed, ½ mile off on | 2 | 48 |the right, the village being about | | |the same distance further W. of | | |the well. The country now becomes | | |perfectly bare (at this season), | | |it being entirely under | | |cultivation, if not this year at | | |any rate in a good season, and the | | |bush ceases altogether. Villages | | |begin to get numerous, and natives | | |are more frequently met, as from | | |here on to Managil, but few leave | | |their villages for the river. This | | |district is known as Gutefab, and _Gutefab El | 4 | 52 |the chief village is El Areik Areik_ | | |(Awamer) which is on the road, the | | |Id being a mile to the east. | | | | 3 | 55 |About 3 miles on arak grows and | | |affords the only grazing for | | |camels, but it only extends for | | |about ½ mile along the road; the | | |country then become scattered with | 2 | 57 |laot bush and naal grass. | | | Goz El Naga | 2 | 59 |Goz El Naga is passed about a mile | | |on the right. Not much cultivation | | |visible about here.