| | |going, and axes had to be used in | | |places. Fifteen miles on sighted | | |Jebel Kassala to south-west. Bush- | | |grown plain. Shortly after track | | |passes between low hills on the Jebel | 16 | 214 |right, called Shushaieb, and a Shushaieb | | |large burying ground on left, | | |called “Balad Ali Gabret,” and Khor Ali | 4 | 218 |enters shortly after khor of that Gabret | | |name, running south and west, with | | |six wells of good water, 4 feet | | |below surface. Plenty of shade. | | |Jebel Sabderat is seen on left | | |front. | | | | | |Track now leaves khor and runs | | |south-west over grassy park-like | | |plain, covered with bush, &c. Bad | | |going in places. Seven miles on | | |sighted Jebel Mokram and, passing Kassala | 18 | 236 |it on our left, reached Kassala, 3 | | |miles further on. --------------+-------------+------+---------------------------------- 10.—KASSALA TO MAMAN DIRECT. BY CAPTAIN H. H. MORANT, APRIL, 1900. [Sidenote: General Remarks.] The most direct road to Maman is the old telegraph route which leaves Kassala in N.N.E. direction past the north end of J. Mokram, and after following the new telegraph line for about 10 miles then turns nearly due north and leaves the new telegraph to the east. Country: good going, covered with scattered bush, but thicker along khors, some of which are more or less serious obstacles in the rains. Though water is not plentiful along this route it was sufficient in April, 1900, to enable a party of 50 Camel Corps, 2 horses, 50 natives on foot, and 2,000 head of cattle and sheep to reach the wells at Tukruf, near Kassala, without any special arrangements for water. Maman is on the direct road to Suakin: for portion of route to Suakin N. of Maman, _vide_ Route 8.