[53]Vide Sir W. Garstin’s “Report on the Basin of the Upper Nile.” Foreign Office Blue Book, Egypt No. 2, 1904.
[54]12·4 inches (1904).
[55]Vide Sir W. Garstin’s “Report on the Basin of the Upper Nile.” Foreign Office Blue Book, Egypt No 2, 1904.
[56]Vide “Wild Tribes of the Sudan”—James.
[57]A road is now (1904) being cut from Kassala viâ Abu Gamal to Umbrega on the R. Setit.
[58]Hakos is reported to have been killed on the Abyssinian side of the frontier, December, 1903, whilst Kidana Miriam appears to have settled down in Abyssinian territory.
[59]Vide Sir W. Garstin’s “Report on the Basin of the Upper Nile.” Foreign Office Blue Book, Egypt No. 2, 1904.
[60]Vide “Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia” (Baker), and “Wild Tribes of the Sudan” (James).
[61]Mr. P. C. Waite (Scottish Geographical Magazine) gives the length of the Setit as 800 miles, and its flood discharge (at mouth?) as more than 4,500 metres cube per second. Sir W. Garstin estimates the maximum discharge of the Atbara at its mouth to be about 3,000-4,000 metres cube per second. The discharge of the Setit is, therefore, evidently considerably over-estimated.