| | | _Abdulla Rai_ | 8 | 15 |Junction of Suakin track. Abdulla | | |Rai Fort, ½ mile west of track. | | | Tokar | 2½ | 17½ |Tokar. --------------+-------------+------+---------------------------------- 6.—(α) SUAKIN TO ERKOWIT, _viâ_ TAMANEB AND KHOR ARAB. BY MAJOR POWELL, R.E., MARCH, 1903. --------------+--------------------+---------------------------------- | Miles. | Place. +-------------+------+ Description. |Intermediate.|Total.| --------------+-------------+------+---------------------------------- Suakin | — | — |Leaving Suakin by the Shaata Gate | | |the track leads S.W. up the plain | | |reaching the granite outcrops of | | |the foot hills. Over broken, but | | |easy ground to Tamaneb, where | | |there is running water. | | | _Tamaneb_ | 8 | 18 |The track passes W. of Tamaneb and | | |ascends the flat valley bottom of | | |Khor Gwob to 22 miles, where the | | |junction with the Khor Nagit is | | |reached. Leaving the route to | | |Sinkat, which goes on up Gwob, the | | |track turns S.W. up Khor Nagit | | |till 27 miles, and then crosses a | | |short rocky agaba into Khor Manab. | | |Descending this easy valley, at | | |29½ miles the junction with Khor | | |Arab is reached. To avoid a gorge | | |the track ascends the hillside | | |about 150 feet by a different rock | | |path descending into the valley at | | |30½ miles. Up the valley, easy | | |going, for about a mile pass | | |_running water_ (brackish and | | |unpleasant), then ascend by steep | | |zigzags up the left bank (1 in 4 | | |at worst), after ½ mile along the