[103]The position given is that of the centre of the fort, as determined by my triangulation from the Nile Valley.

[104]Kwolala is the Bishari word for circle.

[105]Red Sea Pilot. 1900. p. 130.


CHAPTER VI.


THE MOUNTAINS AND HILLS.


It has been already mentioned ([p. 19]) that the principal mountain masses are divisible into ten main groups as follows:—

[i.] The Migif — Hafafit — Nugrus — Hangalia — Zabara group;
[ii.] The Abu Hamamid — Hamata — Abu Gurdi group;
[iii.] The Um Gunud — Dahanib — Batoga group;
[iv.] The Abu Dahr — Orga — Um Tenebda group;
[v.] The Faraid group;
[vi.] The Awamtib — Abraq — Dif — Aqab el Negum — Mishbih group;
[vii.] The Gerf — Korabkansi — Abu Hodeid group;
[viii.] The Meisah — Adar Qaqa — Is group;
[ix.] The mountains of the Alaqi basin west of Gebel Adar Qaqa;
[x.] The Elba — Shendib group;