On either side of the 22nd parallel, near the sea are low gravel-covered banks of calcareous grit, seventy metres high in places, and through these pass several broad wadis draining from the low hill country further west. The chief of these wadis, called =Wadi Qabatit=, enters the sea at a well defined inlet of the coast called Mersa Qabatit. A well, =Bir Qabatit=, is situated in the bed of another drainage channel a little south of the main wadi, one and a half kilometres south-east of the mersa and 3·85 kilometres south of the 22nd parallel. The ground at the well is only five metres above the sea. The well is a big excavation in the wadi floor, and its water surface is about at sea-level. To me the water tasted decidedly salt, but the Arabs say it does not purge them. * * * * * [Footnote 89: Floyer’s map (_Geog. Journal_, 1893) gives the name Gemal as continuing further up as far as the pass into Wadi Durunkat; but my guides say this is an error.] [Footnote 90: This road is said to lead _via_ Ghuel, Um Khariga, and Dabur, to Gebel Hamrat Wogud.] [Footnote 91: For a brief mention of the ruins of Berenice, _see_ p. 29.] [Footnote 92: Each of the three vowels in Naait is pronounced broad and separately, so that the word has three syllables.] [Footnote 93: _Allawi_ = crooked.] [Footnote 94: I did not hear anything of this in 1907 when in the neighbourhood, perhaps owing to the ignorance of my Ababda guides. The information was given me further south in 1908 by several Bisharin guides, who appeared to know the place well and who all agreed on the point.] [Footnote 95: The authors of “The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan,” 1905 (Vol. I, p. 87) erroneously place Bir Shalatein in Wadi Hasium instead of at the mouth of Wadi Hodein. The mistake has led to erroneous delineation of the administrative boundary between Egypt and the Sudan in existing maps (_see_ p. 74).] [Footnote 96: This and the other main feeders of Wadi Hodein are described in more detail in following pages.] [Footnote 97: The final syllable in _Silsila_ is hardly heard when the name is spoken by an Ababda Arab; it sounds like _Silsi_ unless one is listening specially for the end of the word.] [Footnote 98: To be distinguished from the Wadi Gemal further north mentioned on p. 100.] [Footnote 99: Bir Madi, 12¼ kilometres north of Bir Sararat Seyet, was at this time open and giving good supplies.] [Footnote 100: This and the other main Egyptian tributaries of Di-ib are described in more detail in the following pages.] [Footnote 101: _Geographical Journal_, 1896.] [Footnote 102: Qoseir is in latitude 26° 6′ north, about 400 kilometres as the crow flies from Halaib.] [Footnote 103: The position given is that of the centre of the fort, as determined by my triangulation from the Nile Valley.] [Footnote 104: _Kwolala_ is the Bishari word for circle.] [Footnote 105: _Red Sea Pilot._ 1900. p. 130.]