--------------+--------------------+---------------------------------- | Miles. | Place. +-------------+------+ Description. |Intermediate.|Total.| --------------+-------------+------+---------------------------------- Berber | — | — |From Berber the road runs between | | |the river and the railway. | | | Darmali | 13 | 13 |A mud built village on the Nile; | | |the usual road now branches | | |southwards, crosses the railway | | |and than a bare, gravelly, Khor El Hudi | 17 | 30 |waterless plain to Khor El Hudi. | | |(If preferred, the Atbara can be | | |followed by continuing along the | | |Nile to Atbara Station, which is | | |about 7 miles from Darmali.) | | | | | |From El Hudi, where the remains of | | |the Anglo-Egyptian zeriba are | | |still visible, the road skirts the | | |river which is fringed with dom Khor Abadar or| 8 | 38 |palms and other bush to Khor Abu Adar | | |Abadar, near the junction of which | | |there is a small stone wall | | |enclosure and the remains of | | |another Anglo-Egyptian zeriba. | | | | | |From here the road cuts off an | | |angle from the river and lies _Khor El Hilg_| 19 | 57 |across open gravelly desert till (Rest House) | | |Khor El Hilg is reached. | | | | | |(Nakheila, the site of Mahmud’s | | |zeriba and the battle of the | | |Atbara, is passed at the 12th | | |mile, about 5 miles to the west.) | | |There is dense bush about here, | | |and the ground is likely to be | | |swampy in the rains. | | |