[Footnote 16: There was no “Geziret Elba” known to the sailors of Halaib at the time of my survey. The “Elba Island” of the Admiralty Chart is called Geziret el Dibia; it is a very small island, which looks like a boat from a distance.] [Footnote 17: Though the Bisharin are now very orderly and friendly, the ancient dread of their country still persists to such a degree that it is almost impossible to persuade Ababda Arabs to go near the Elba district.] [Footnote 18: SCHWEINFURTH, _Reise an der Kuste des Rothen Meeres von Kosser bis Suakin_, Zeits. für allgem. Erdkunde. Berlin, Band XVIII (1865), pp. 131-150, 283-313, 320-384. A special account of the Elba district is given with a map, in another paper, _Das Land am Elba- und Soturba-Gebirge_ in Petermann’s geog. Mittheilungen, 1865. pp. 330-340. Schweinfurth also published several other papers dealing with the rich botanical results of his expedition.] [Footnote 19: I found many of the natives could not recognise the name Halaib, which has become the official name of their village. They call it “Oleiyib,” sounding the final consonant only slightly; so that Schweinfurth’s “Elei” is not very different from the local name.] [Footnote 20: COLSTON, _Journal d’un voyage du Caire à Keneh, Bérénice et Berber_. Bull. Soc. Khédiv. de Géographie. 1886. pp. 489-568.] [Footnote 21: PURDY, _Reconnaissance entre Bérénice et Berber_. _Ibid._ pp. 431-435, with a map.] [Footnote 22: CORA, _La route de Kéneh à Bérénice levée en 1873, par le Colonel R. E. Colston_. Bull. Soc. Khéd. de Géog. Cairo, Sept. 1891. pp. 533-538, with map.] [Footnote 23: GOLÉNISCHEFF, _Une Excursion à Bérénice_. Recueil de Travaux. Vol. XIII (1891), pp. 75-96.] [Footnote 24: Golénischeff names this place _Abu Greïa_, a name which he remarks is the same as that of a station near Berenice. Garia Abu Medrik is the name given to it by the Arab guides accompanying the Survey expeditions.] [Footnote 25: FLOYER, _Etude sur le Nord Etbai_. Cairo, 1893.] [Footnote 26: _Further Routes in the Eastern Desert of Egypt._ Geog. Journal. London, 1893. pp. 408-431.] [Footnote 27: _Notes on the Geology of the Northern Etbai._ Quart. Journal Geol. Soc. London, 1892. pp. 576-582.] [Footnote 28: Professor HULL, in the discussion on Floyer’s paper, suggested, even in the absence of specimens, that Floyer’s “blue clay” was really a decomposed Archæan schist. My observations have proved the sagacity of this suggestion.] [Footnote 29: BENT, _A visit to the Northern Sudan_. Geogr. Journal. London. Vol. VIII (1896), pp. 335-353.] [Footnote 30: MACALISTER, _The Emerald Mines of Northern Etbai_. Geog. Journal. London. Vol. XVI (1900), pp. 537-549.] [Footnote 31: _Berichte der Commission für Oceanographische Forschungen._ Sechste Reihe, Wien 1898, and Siebente Reihe, Wien, 1901.] [Footnote 32: _See_ p. 65.]