| | |Niok’s (a released slave from Warrit | 9 | 295¼ |Cairo) village Warrit ½ mile E. A | | |few Shilluk villages are passed on | | |the island called Wad Ab Kona, | | |formed by Khor Gaza El Abiad and | | |White Nile. This khor at High Nile | | |is probably 300 yards to 600 yards | | |wide, but now (March) it is | | |nowhere more than 300 and fordable | | |nearly everywhere. There are many | | |wild fowl on it. S. of Warrit the | | |people are mostly Selim Baggara | | |living in temporary encampments | | |about a mile inland for the | | |grazing. | | | _Um | 11¼ | 306½ |The encampments now cease and the Hedeida_ | | |water in the khor gradually | | |decreases until at Um Hedeida, | | |water is stagnant and only in | | |small quantities. The country on | | |E. of track which always follows | | |the eastern bank of khor, is | | |covered with 3 feet high grass | | |(where not burnt), and scattered | | |bush and no signs of cultivation | | |are visible. | | | | 3 | 309½ |Water reappears in the khor, and | | |there are Selim encampments to the | | |E. of the track. | | | _Leungtom | 3½ | 313 |At meshra Leungtom (Dinka) or or Domaia_ | | |Domaia (Arab) the Nile is | | |approached again for the first | | |time since Renk. About 1½ miles | | |inland are the villages of Kolang, | | |El Wat, &c., under Sheikh Salem | | |Banga (also a released slave from | | |Cairo). A certain amount of | | |cultivation is visible and the