| | |salt. Track now runs south-west | | |and then for 8 miles west. Channel | | |blocked by large stone boulders | | |after first mile, bad going | | |through deep sand, dom palms on | | |both banks, also saw two withered | | |Tebeldis with edible fruit like an | | |elongated pear. Six miles on _Khashm | 6 | 184 |reached three wells called Khashm Hodelt_ | | |Hodelt. Eight miles on, left khor | | |and marched west over plain, | | |covered with acacia, &c. Then re- _Khashm | 6 | 190 |entered khor and reached three at Ribdab_ | | |Khashm Ribdab, good water. | | | | | |No water for the next 28 miles. | | | | | |Track leaves Khor Lokweb now, | | |which runs west, and enters Khor | | |Ribdab. Channel 50 to 100 yards | | |wide, with low banks covered with | | |bush, hard sandy bottom, excellent | | |going, direction due south. | | |Sighted here, due south, curious | | |grey hill, with top sticking up Jebel | 8 | 198 |like a chimney, called Jebel Irkit Irkit-Anob | | |Anob, a good land mark. Natives | | |said no one had ever been able to | | |climb to its top. Three miles on | | |reached plain, where the old | | |Mamuria stood. Five miles on | | |passed close to the above- | | |mentioned hill, leaving it on our | | |left. Track shortly afterwards | | |leaves khor and runs west over | | |plain of acacia, coarse grass, &c. | | |Nine miles on reached hill called | | |Tiniki, with a single thorn tree | | |on its east shoulder, moved round | | |its east flank in single file into | | |plain beyond; direction west, bad