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
| 6 | 201½ |Scattered bush now commences and
| | |continues with occasional
_J. Dali_ | 19½ | 221 |interruptions until reaching the
| | |bad kittr about 1 mile wide
| | |surrounding Jebel Dali, a stony
| | |hill about 500 feet high. Water is
| | |found about half way up,
| | |immediately below its highest
| | |point. After a good rainy season
| | |it lasts till March or April, but
| | |there was practically none on
| | |February 4th, 1902.
| | |
| | |The road from Senga _viâ_ Teigo on
| | |Blue Nile to Musran and Goz Abu
| | |Guma passes by this watering
| | |place. Remains of former
| | |habitations of Abu Rof Arabs are
| | |visible. Leaving the jebel in a
| | |southerly direction after
| | |traversing a thick belt of kittr,
| | |½ mile wide, J. Teigo is visible
J. Abu Garud | 22 | 243 |on the left and J. Abu Garud and
| | |other hills on the right. Abu
| | |Garud is the highest hill seen
| | |south of Khartoum. At first the
| | |country is open, then forest
| | |(chiefly soffar) begins and
J. Bozi | 9 | 252 |continues till after passing J.
| | |Bozi a long, low hill immediately
| | |under the west end of which the
| | |road passes, and then becomes open
_J. Mazmum_ | 14 | 266 |until reaching J. Mazmum. Here
| | |rain and spring water is found in
| | |natural tanks in perhaps half a
| | |dozen places. The amount of water
| | |of course varying with the rains.
| | |There was sufficient in a tank at
| | |the foot of the southern end of
| | |the western face of the jebel to
| | |water 40 camels and 40 men for two
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