_Biba_ | | |and Selim Arab villages in the | | |neighbourhood, but no one lives | | |here during the rains. The Dinkas | | |then retire inland and the Arabs | | |to districts N. of the fly limit. | | |From Ahmed Agba there is a little | | |used track to Jebel Ulu Gerauit, | | |which is visible from the top of | | |the Jebel, and is described as | | |being distant two days without | | |water. Sheikh Jok is the Dinka | | |Sheikh here and Akwé acts for him | | |when absent. There are many dom | | |palms around the Jebel. Water is | | |obtained from Khor Biba or Ahmed | | |Agha, the river which here bends | | |S.W., is about 1 mile W. of it. | | | Heglig or | 3 | 345½ |Is the name of the district which Tau | | |extends for about 6 miles opposite | | |to Gezira Wad Beiker on the Gezira Wad | 2 | 347½ |northern end of which is a Shilluk Beiker | | |village Edor Gamoia. Marbeit | | |(Arab) or Shakab (Dinka) is the Edor Gamoia| — | — |name of the next district. | | | _Marbeit_ | 2½ | 350 | or _Shakab_| | | | | | | 1½ | 351½ |The road which has been skirting | | |the branch of the Nile (about 30 | | |yards wide) for about the last 4 | | |miles now ceases to do so, and a | | |grassy plain which at High Nile | | |must be a swamp intervenes between | | |it and the river. | | | Ial Gamus | — | — |A Shilluk village on the island. | | |The Sheikh after whom the village | | |is named, is a refugee from Cairo. | | |