Abstract

Evening Meeting of the Society, 12 June ig3g TV/fOST of you have heard of the Darb el Arba'in, the wicked old camel i V? route of forty long days between El Fasher, the capital of Dar Fur, and Asyut, by which gold and ivory, gum, skins, ostrich feathers, and slaves were brought in medieval times from the Sudan through Kharga Oasis into Egypt. Through traffic along this route ceased during the period of Dervish rule in the Sudan, and has never revived.

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