4 SPORT IN THE EASTERN SUDAN 



succession of villages along the Kahad, en route 

 from Gallabat to Khartoum, where for two hundred 

 miles he says that he saw not even a gazelle. 

 Between Hawata and Homar ul Gizm on the Kahad 

 I traversed nearly eighty miles of the route followed 

 by that mighty hunter, and so far from having any 

 cause to complain of monotony, that tract is now 

 so infested with lions, who prey upon the countless 

 herds of ariel, that it is an absolute necessity to build 

 a zareba at night round one's transport animals, 

 and highly desirable to sleep with two loaded rifles 

 within arm's-length of one's pillow. The same 

 remarks apply with almost equal force to the River 

 Dinder, along whose banks I travelled from its 

 junction with the Galegu to the local seat of govern- 

 ment at Abu Hashim, a distance of some seventy 

 miles. My map showed eleven villages in this tract 

 above Beda some twenty miles short of Abu Hashim, 

 but personal investigation indicated that Beda is now 

 the highest inhabited point on the river. Here, 

 however, repeated visits of sportsmen had driven 

 away the game, and I afterwards regretted ex- 

 ceedingly that I had not taken the alternative route 

 to the Blue Nile, namely, up the Dinder from the 

 Galegu junction to a certain Slavery Post, and then 

 across country to Roseires. 



Experience has shown that a certain type of mind 

 totally declines to believe facts that conflict with 





