_Bir Maman_ | 1½ | 76½ |Two wells, 40 feet deep, 3 feet | | |diameter, water good and plentiful | | |at all seasons. | | | | | |On leaving the wells, the track, | | |very faint, over stony ground, | | |made by the party constructing the | | |new telegraph line, was followed | | |for the next 40 miles. The | | |telegraph line itself is within | | |sight of the track on one side or | | |the other. Track proceeds up khor | | |for ¾ mile, then passes round S.E. | | |corner of J. Maman, and turns due | | |N. J. Maman on the W. and J. Tudab | | |on the E. form a pass, 1½ to 2 | | |miles broad; ground sandy, with | | |patches of stones; flat, good | | |going; several small khors are | | |crossed. | | | Khor Hashaneid| 6 | 82½ |One hundred yards broad, 3 feet | | |banks. Dom palms and trees. | | | Khor Tudab | 2 | 84½ | | | | Khor Fagada | 2 | 86½ | | | | Khor Toteb | 1 | 87½ |Eighty yards broad, 5 feet banks. | | |Runs into the Khor Kudameieb. Dom | | |palms, kittr, samr, and the | | |thornless kurmet trees. One and a | | |half miles E. is J. Yaied, some | | |1,500 feet high, and 6 to 7 miles | | |long, a mass of black basaltic | | |rock, steeply escarped on its | | |western side. | | | | | |For the next 12 miles, ground | | |traversed is hard sand, sloping | | |from hills on the E., and covered