[43]In 1904 about 30,000 kantars of dates were exported from Dongola, the average price per kantar being about 22 P.T. The cost of freight per kantar from, say, Merowe to Omdurman is about 75 P.T.
[44]The population of Halfa Province in 1904 was 30,800.
[46]In spite of their claim to be of Semitic origin, the Bisharin are not true Arabs and are of Hamitic descent.
[47]Vide list of wells, [p. 92.]
[48]Chiefly on this account it has been decided to abandon Suakin and construct a harbour and town, etc., at Sheikh Barghut, vide [p. 95.]
[49]About 4·5 inches.
[50]In 1903-04, 7,425 feddans were under cotton cultivation and yielded 29,039 kantars which realised £E.25,873, or an average of 89·1 P.T. per kantar.
[51]Barghut = fleas. The new name for Sheikh Barghut is “New Suakin.”
[52]In 1903, under 2,000 feddans of cultivation were irrigated by the Gash flood.