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
Fil and | | |track, to the W. the country is
Ajak | | |more or less open with patches of
| | |bush and trees in places.
| | |
Dinka | 7 | 382 |Villages under Sheikh Akol Wad
villages, | | |Ashol.
Nakwé and | | |
Fithi | | |
| | |
Jung Yom | ¾ | 382¾ |Dinka villages under Akol. The
| | |river is now about 2 miles away,
| | |right of road.
| | |
Debba | 1¼ | 384 |Arab name for knoll on right of
Shagerat | | |point where road bends westwards
| | |and crosses a marshy (in rains)
Debeik | 2 | 386 |plain to Sheikh Akol’s village
| | |about 1 mile from river opposite
_Shagerat | — | — |Kaka, where there are many Shilluk
El Ashera_ | | |villages. The Arab name for this
or _Loing | | |marshy district is Shagerat El
Shuk_ | | |Ashera, and Dinka Loing Shuk.
(opposite | | |
Kaka) | | |
| | |
| | |Skirting an open marshy (in rains)
| | |plain on right and following line
| | |of trees on left, Dinka village
Ajok | 2¾ | 388¾ |named Ajok is reached. Tracks now
| | |become numerous and ill defined,
| | |and one was followed which led
| | |across an open marshy (in rains)
| | |plain to the Nile 2 miles N. of
| | |Kaka, wood station, known as
_Kaka, old | 6¼ | 405 |Hellet El Nyam Nyam; the village
wood | | |is situated close to the river
station_ | | |bank.
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43.—RENK TO OPPOSITE KODOK (DUNJOL) (R. B.).
BY CAPTAIN H. H. WILSON, DECEMBER, 1902, JANUARY AND FEBRUARY, 1903.
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