--------------+--------------------+---------------------------------- | Miles. | Place. +-------------+------+ Description. |Intermediate.|Total.| --------------+-------------+------+---------------------------------- Adarama | — | — |After leaving Adarama the road | | |goes E. for about 6 miles over | | |sandy soil covered with tufts of | | |dry tabas grass. Jebel Asoteribab | | |is visible to the S.E. Khor Amab | | |is then crossed; this is always | | |dry, I was told; it comes from | | |S.E., and runs a little way | | |further to the N. Osman Digna is | | |said to have had his extreme E. | | |outpost of 20 men here to levy | | |blackmail on anyone coming to | | |Berber. There are acacia bushes in | | |this khor. Two miles after | | |crossing the khor, the range Jebel Jebel Tobrar | 2 | 8 |Tobrar comes into view. All bushes | | |cease here, and for 4 or 5 miles | | |the way is over an undulating | | |sandy country with tufts of | | |withered grass. On descending a Khor Shedieb | 5 | 13 |low sandy hill, Khor Shedieb is | | |met running S.W. and draining a | | |black, light sandy plain running | | |E. and W., along which the way | | |proceeds for 6 miles; low sand | | |hills to the S. The plain is | | |treeless, except a few stunted | | |bushes in Khor Shedieb. After | | |marching E. over this plain the | | |sand hills begin to close in at a El Yukreik | 7 | 20 |place called El Yukreik, where | | |there is a little shade from a few | | |small tundub bushes; this is said | | |to be full of water and green | | |grass in a rainy year, but it is | | |quite dry now; this is about 20