| Place. | Miles. | Description. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inter-mediate. | Total. | ||
| Bayuda Wells | — | — | On leaving the wells for the first milethe Korti track is followed. On issuing from the hills, the track,which is well marked, gradually separates from the Korti route,making for higher ground, and keeps on in a practically straightline, crossing the heads of some of the small wadis that join themain one from Bayuda, and passing over a number of infinitesimalsaddles that separate them. |
| There is nothing of interest along theroad. | |||
| J. Hawashawi | 26 | 26 | A number of small hills, each too smallto show properly on the scale, but sometimes forming a mass ofconsiderable area, are passed; but the only one worth noticing isJ. Hawashawi, which is said to give a name to the route. |
| Wadi Abu Gia | 7½ | 33½ | There is very little camel grazing on theroute generally, and after this none is met with till the Wadi AbuGia is reached, where there are some “selem” and other trees. |
| Birgat El Seleim | 9 | 42½ | The Wadi Abu Gia isthe route used by the Camel Corps in 1885, and is still known asSikkat El Ingliz. The country now becomes still more bare; thetussocks of burnt up “tabas” grass, that have been hitherto seenoccasionally, no longer appear, and with the exception of some“selem” bushes in the neighbourhood of Birgat El Seleim, a lowhill, no green thing is seen till the Wadi Kurei is reached in theneighbourhood of the Birgat Wadi Kurei, from the top of which thereis a good view. |
| Birgat Wadi Kurei | 14 | 56½ | |
| Tangasi | 7 | 63½ | From here into Tangasi Market the route(there is no track) is over a low gravel ridge and then across alevel plain. |
[34]It was in this year that the surveys for the railway were made.
[35]See [page 175.]
APPENDIX.
(Routes partly outside the Sudan.)
122.—THE ARBAÏN ROAD.
(Compiled by the Editor.)
The “forty days” road leads S.S.W. across the desert from Assiut, in Upper Egypt, viâ the oases of Kharga, Beris, Sheb, Selima, Lagia, and Bir El Sultan to El Fasher capital of Darfur. It was formerly in considerable use for bringing slave caravans, &c., from the Sudan, and is still used in parts to a limited extent by natron caravans, occasional smugglers, and others. It is, however, now practically deserted.