| | |waterless plain until Segadi is | | |reached. This plain, on which | | |numerous camels are grazed during | | |the rains, is, as a rule, open and | | |covered with naal and siha grass | | |intersected at intervals by belts | | |of kittr, the thickest and widest | | |is in the last 4 miles before | | |reaching the hamlet on the north _J. Sejadi_ | 24 | 159 |of J. Segadi. Another outlying | | |hamlet is Ereiga, which was passed | 1 | 160 |but not seen, about 4 miles from | | |the jebel which strongly resembles | | |J. Kassala on a small scale. It | | |consists of two main granite | | |masses lying north-east and south- | | |west, the wells being between | | |them. There is also one on the | | |western side of main jebel. The | | |village, which must contain some | | |1,500 inhabitants, is close to the | | |western face of the larger jebel. | | |The population is very mixed, and | | |many only live here during the dry | | |season. Torin Ahmed (Rufaa) is | | |Sheikh of this heterogeneous | | |crowd. There are said to be caves | | |in the jebels here, which | | |doubtless occasionally harbour bad | | |characters from the Gezira and | | |elsewhere. | | | _Moya_ | 13½ | 173½ |Following the telegraph line which | | |runs E.S.E., Moya is reached in | | |about 13½ miles. Dense kittr is | | |passed through _en route_, but the | | |road is cleared for the wire. | | |Approaching Moya much cultivation | | |is passed in clearings in the | | |bush. The name Moya as applied to | | |this village is an euphemism as