=Wadi Elemikan= is the name given to an ill-defined system of drainage channels meandering over the plain south of Gebel Abu Gurdi. It originates on the main watershed, and at its head there is a very easy pass over into the Wadi Lahami, which descends to the sea. At this point, which is 590 metres above the sea, the watershed is ill-defined, being a sandy plain; but while to the west the plain continues with only a slight fall, to the east it soon gives place to rugged country through which narrow wadis descend rapidly towards the sea coast. The plain west of the watershed is remarkable for the presence of three great bosses of quartz, the largest of which, called Marwot Elemikan, rises as a conspicuous cone of dazzling whiteness to a height of sixty-eight metres above the plain. Besides the drainage from the plain itself, Wadi Elemikan receives feeders from the hills which flank Gebel Abu Gurdi to the south, and also a portion of the drainage from the Wadi Abu Gurdi, which divides into two channels on emerging from the mountains. Passing between the granite hills of Gebel Abu Derega and Gebel Selaia, Wadi Elemikan courses a little north of westward over a great sandy plain to join the Wadi Kharit north of Gebel Geneina in longitude 34° 36′. It is a barren wadi, but water can sometimes be obtained a little north of it at a small spring called =Megal el Selaia=, at the foot of a low hill one kilometre south-east of the great rounded granite boss of Gebel Selaia. I obtained a small supply of very good water here early in 1906, but the spring is a very slow one and is said to fail altogether in dry seasons. =Wadi Abu Hamamid=, an important tributary of Wadi Kharit, originates as a series of gullies in the mountains of Gebel Abu Hamamid, on the west face of the main watershed, in longitude 34° 48′. It courses, among high hills a little north of west to longitude 34° 41′, then turns south-west and enters the plain which extends to the west of Bir Shadli. Here it receives part of the drainage from Wadi el Sheikh, and turns westward among lower hills, passing north of the red hills called El Hamra, to Bir Abu Hamamid, and then turning south-west between El Hamra and Hamrat Mukbud to join Kharit in longitude 34° 23′. =Bir Abu Hamamid= is an important well; it is a rude irregular excavation, about six metres deep, in the wadi floor, down which men can walk to fill their water skins. This well was yielding more plentiful supplies in the autumn of 1906 than any of the other wells in the neighbourhood; the water was rather salty and muddy, but quite drinkable. From near Bir Abu Hamamid, a track leads north-westward over the hills to Bir Khashab and on to Bir Masur. To reach Bir Shadli, one follows up the Wadi Abu Hamamid till it opens on to a plain, and then strikes almost due eastward across the plain.