The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Vol 2

Description

The second volume of the official 1905 compendium prepared by officers of the Sudan Government, focusing on routes, resources, and administrative detail across the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Edited by Count Gleichen.

Editor: Lord Edward Gleichen

Genre: History / Reference

Excerpt

The road described below is only one of several that might have been taken, but I believe it is perhaps the most direct. The portions between No. 6 and Murrat, and along the Wadi Alagi must be common to all routes.

There are no gradients on the road sufficiently steep to form a serious obstacle to laden camels, but there are a good many places after the Wadi Abu Bard is left, where the stony nature of the road is trying for the feet of plains camels, though the camels of the country seem to make nothing of it.

Water is scarce and not always good. If marching with hamla, arrangements should be made to carry at least two nights’ water.