| | |mile on one passes many skulls and | | |human bones scattered all over the | | |ground for some distance. This | | |spot was the scene of the first | | |encounter of the Kassala garrison | | |and the Dervishes in the winter of | | |1883-4. Later on Osman Digna had a | | |large standing camp of Hadendoa at | | |the same place. Arabs say “20,000 | | |young men” were collected there | | |and guarded by Baggara horsemen, | | |who, when food failed, refused to | | |let them leave; so many hundreds | | |died of starvation. | | | Hageror | 9 | 24 |The name of the district. At this | | |point, 1 mile W. of our route, is | | |the site of the old telegraph | | |maintenance post of the old | | |Suakin—Kassala telegraph line, | | |close to a branch of the Khor El | | |Gash (Khor Herbub). Arabs say | | |water can be found 10 to 15 feet | | |below the surface anywhere in this | | |khor; fringed with high trees. | | |Direction now is E.N.E.; country | | |as before, but cotton soil. | | | Khor Bahr | 3½ | 27½ |A shallow depression, 200 to 300 Shamil | | |yards broad, no defined banks, | | |thickly grown over by laot trees. | | | Khor Delai | 3 | 30½ |Twenty yards broad, 4 feet deep, | | |flowing W. High trees along banks. | | |At the 33rd mile the trees | | |disappear; country is cotton soil | | |with tussocks of grass, full of | | |holes and breaks away at every | | |step. Very bad going for men and | | |animals. As the Khor Herbub is | | |approached, grass, 3 feet high,