. Service & sport in the Sudan; a record of administration in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. With some intervals of sport and travel. AN AWFUL JOURNEY 307 Words can scarcely describe the awful journey,especially in the dark, from this tree to Ein Aga,I might say to within sixty miles of Delgo. Ridingwas almost out of the question, walking over theground thickly strewn with flat stones some eightinches in diameter almost as bad. A striking featurewas the solitary sand-drift. Numbers of them, a mileor so apart, covered the plain. In among the stoneswere beautiful pebbles and polished pieces of petrif
. Service & sport in the Sudan; a record of administration in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. With some intervals of sport and travel. AN AWFUL JOURNEY 307 Words can scarcely describe the awful journey,especially in the dark, from this tree to Ein Aga,I might say to within sixty miles of Delgo. Ridingwas almost out of the question, walking over theground thickly strewn with flat stones some eightinches in diameter almost as bad. A striking featurewas the solitary sand-drift. Numbers of them, a mileor so apart, covered the plain. In among the stoneswere beautiful pebbles and polished pieces of petrifiedwood. One trunk over twenty feet long was also passed many patches of brilliant purplepebbles. Nature, as if to draw attention to her handi-work, placed one or two pieces of chrome-colouredones among the purple. The more beautiful thepebbles, the uglier brown is the desert. We had now struck the Darb el Arbain ( Road ofForty Days ). Centuries of caravans have worn moreor less possible tracks deep among the stones. Wepassed a tundub tree into which, as seen by its posi-tion, a dying camel, gaining that much str
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