202 SERVICE AND SPORT IN THE SUDAN 



no hope of gain, tramps the unknown parts of the 

 world against his inchnation. 



We leapt from rock to rock to get down to the 

 river. Close to the latter, in the bank of a small khor, 

 was a soft white rock which elephants had quarried 

 with their tusks. When first detached the rock had 

 a rather saline flavour. Around were tracks of in- 

 numerable animals who frequented this salt-lick. 



We reached the Wau-Dem Zubeir road, where it 

 crosses the Kuru River and Dem Zubeir, after a twelve 

 days' absence, in which we had covered a distance of 

 about 230 miles, of which 50 only were on native 

 tracks. 



