KASSALA— SABDERAT— ALGADEN— DOLKA. 



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To the north succeed the two large Hadendoa villages of Miktinah and Filik, 

 which are of some importance as market-places. To the south-east the Bazen 

 peasantry, half converted to Islam, people the village of Elit, built at a height of 

 1,330 feet above the plain, on an almost inaccessible terrace half-way up the side 

 of a granite mountain, scooped out at the top into a cultivated crater of quadran- 



Fig. 82. — Kassala. 

 Scale 1 : 125.000. 



3 Miles. 



gular shape. The " boiler " of Elit is probably a sinking of the soil, such as is 

 frequently met with in rocks pierced with grottoes. 



North of Elit and already on the slope of the Khôr Barka, is the village of 

 Algaden or Alyeden, whose houses are scattered amidst the overturned blocks on 

 the sides of Mount Dablot or Doblut, which overlooks a vast horizon of hills and 

 plains between the two rivers Mareb and Barka. Algaden lies on the route to 

 Mecca taken by the Takruri pilgrims, who support themselves from village to 



