The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan: a compendium prepared by officers of the Sudan government, Vol. 2 (of 2)Sudan. Wizarat al-Naql wa-al-Muwasalat
History
The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan: a compendium prepared by officers of the Sudan government, Vol. 2 (of 2)
Sudan. Wizarat al-Naql wa-al-Muwasalat
Sudan -- Description and travel; Sudan -- History
| | |with stones; very bad going; in
| | |the small watercourses (during
| | |rains) are belts of samr and kittr
| | |trees.
| | |
Khor Gedamaieb| 4½ | 92 |Fifty yards broad, 6 feet banks.
| | |Trees; 2 miles on, a similar khor
| | |is crossed, bearing the same name.
| | |
| | |At 96½ miles the top of a
| | |watershed is reached, and J.
| | |Kureib comes in sight, E.N.E. J.
| | |Bakutneb is some 3 or 4 miles to
| | |the N.
| | |
Khor Abuladein| 7½ | 99½ |Twenty yards broad, 6 feet banks.
| | |Ground now sandy, and more trees.
| | |
Khor Serera | 4 | 103½ |One hundred yards broad, 6 feet
| | |banks. Dom palms. Runs into the
| | |Khor Abu Ledein.
| | |
Khor Togul | 3¼ | 106¾ |Thirty yards broad, 3 feet banks.
| | |Follow the khor 1 mile down
| | |stream.
| | |
_Bir Ali | 1 | 107¾ |One well 40 feet deep, 2 feet 6
Kalai_ | | |inches diameter; water good, but
| | |supply only 300 gallons at date,
| | |and refilled very slowly. Khor
| | |Weidab joins Khor Togul from the
| | |S. lower down.
| | |
| | |Returning up the khor 1 mile, a
| | |N.E. direction is taken. Ground
| | |very stony and undulating, and
| | |intersected by several large
| | |khors. Trees in watercourses and
| | |along banks of khor. The track
| | |runs more or less parallel with J.
| | |Kureib, 4 or 5 miles distant to
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