The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan: a compendium prepared by officers of the Sudan government, Vol. 2 (of 2)Sudan. Wizarat al-Naql wa-al-Muwasalat
History
The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan: a compendium prepared by officers of the Sudan government, Vol. 2 (of 2)
Sudan. Wizarat al-Naql wa-al-Muwasalat
Sudan -- Description and travel; Sudan -- History
_Kreimet_ | 5½ | 98¼ |wells are 4 miles further on.
| | |Another large Arakin village on
_Wells_ | 4 | 102¼ |left of road with a well, as also
| | |have two other villages close on
El Tageia | 1¼ | 103½ |right of road.
| | |
_Managil_ | 3½ | 107 |The plural of El Mangala, the name
| | |given to the village in which the
| | |suk is situated. There are some
| | |half dozen to a dozen villages
| | |close together. There are three
| | |wells and water never fails,
| | |notwithstanding they are 150 feet
| | |deep. Here there are inspector’s
| | |houses, a Mamur, Zaptia, &c. There
| | |is a large mixed population, some
| | |of whom were seen playing a game
| | |called “tiwa” very like rounders.
| | |The plain of Managil is absolutely
| | |flat, without a single bush in
| | |sight, the whole in favourable
| | |seasons being given up to
| | |cultivation. Market days are
| | |Sunday and Wednesday. Leaving
| | |Managil by the route taken Otgi
| | |(Hameg), Dar Nail (Hameg), Wad El
| | |Shagl (Faradiin) are passed a mile
| | |or more on the right hand, whilst
| | |Takala and Um Dugl are passed on
| | |the left, before reaching Um Talha
| | |a Faradiin village. All these
| | |villages have wells, as have all
| | |villages of any pretensions about
_Um Talha_ | 9½ | 116½ |here.
| | |
_Sheleikha_ | 2½ | 119 |A Shaigia village passed on left,
| | |and Wad Doka on the right, before
_El Amara_ | 3½ | 122½ |reaching El Amara (Hameg), and ¾
| | |mile further on Wad Gangar
_Wad Gangari_ | ¾ | 123¼ |(Shaigia), Rabaha is 1¾ miles
| | |further on, and a ¼ mile before
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