The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. I.D.W.O., No. 1856, 1904. 1:4,000,000. (Latest and most up-to-date general map).
Afrika: Justus Perthes; 1892; Sections 6-8. 1:4,000,000.
Stieler’s, or the Times, Atlas.
Berber to Victoria Nyanza. I.D.W.O., No. 1319, 1898. 1:2,500,000.
Nile Basin. I.D.W.O., No. 860, 1891-98. 1:611,434.
French Staff Map: good; 1:2,000,000.
Ancient.For old maps of particular portions, see reproductions of ancient maps in Scott Keltie’s “Partition of Africa,” Cailliaud’s Atlas (along the Nile); the same and Lepsius, for Antiquities; Lejean’s Atlas of Voyage aux deux Niles—somewhat inaccurate; Russegger—valuable mineralogical and other maps of east Sudan and Kordofan; Junker—Modern.chiefly Bahr El Ghazal and Eastern Sudan; and the recently published one of Marchand’s, etc., journeys—Bahr El Ghazal to Abyssinia, 4 sheets (published by the “Société de Géographie, Paris,” 1903. 1:1,000,000.)
Petermann’s Mittheilungen and other geographical periodicals occasionally contain good maps of portions.
The most modern and most accurate maps however are the series of Ordnance Survey Maps now being constructed by the Director of Surveys, Sudan Government, and printed and published by I.D.W.O. (No. 1489) on a, scale of 1:250,000 (about 4 miles to the inch). Of these, each covering 1 degree of latitude and 1½ of longitude, there are over 50 now on sale, out of about 140 projected. They can be obtained (price 1s. 6d. each) from the leading map-sellers in England, and exceptionally a few are to be had from the Director of Intelligence, Cairo.
A reference to the last pages of the Monthly British Army List will show all the I.D.W.O. sheets that have been published. At present they are as follows:—