| 2 | 48 |First view of Jebel Ahmed Agha | | |from track. | | | | 1 | 49 |Forest of red talh; old Dinka | | |elephant pits, and many skulls of | | |these beasts. | | | | 3¼ | 52¼ |Track divides, one going on to the | | |jebel and the other | | |eastwards—inland. This latter goes | | |to the Dinka district of Baanwen, | | |which lies up Khor Rau. A track | | |used to exist to Goz Kash-Kash, | | |but is now said to be “dead.” | | | Khor Rau | ¼ | 52½ |Khor Rau, about ¼ mile beyond bend | | |in the telegraph line; 40-feet | | |waterway, 3 feet deep; unfordable | | |for loaded transport animals on | | |account of mud (December). | | | _Jebel Ahmed | 2 | 54½ |The route followed will be seen by Agha_ | | |comparison to be several miles | | |shorter than the old track | | |previously sketched by other | | |officers. Shortest track is now | | |along line, though the going on | | |the lower tortuous native track is | | |better. | | | Goz Unaché | 2¼ | 56¾ |High ridge of ground on left, used | | |to be thickly populated by Kwach | | |Dinkas. Whole track is through | 5¼ | 62 |dense forest of heglig, sidr, kuk, | | |kittr, and talh, except at Mile | | |62, where there is a broad open | | |plain. | | | _Meshra Zeraf_| 7⅝ | 69⅝ |Also called Mukhada Zeraf. No | | |Dinka villages here, though there | | |are some old cattle zeribas. These