290 Affrcements {Sudnn-Enjthrasnn Frontiers), 1.6.99; 16.4.01: 18.2.03.

From Deberenis the line crosses the Sabderat range by Jebel Eunice to the peak called Kwasana, and thence crosses Khor Sabderat to a point on the range of hills south of the Khor.

This point has been marked by a pillar. The cliff of Shababit is left in Sudanese territory.

W. J. WALTER.

Capt. W. MEYER. BONGIOVANNI SIMONE. Sabderat, \st June, 1899. (The above is the sense of the original British and Italian versions combined : they are not exact translations of each other. — 6.)

(8.) GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE FRONTIER BETWEEN THE SUDAN AND ERITREA FROM SABDERAT TO TODLUC. ( With Map.) Commencing from the last pillar erected in 1899 by Major Walter and Captain Bongiovanni on the south of the Kassala-Sabderat road, the boundary runs in a southerly direction practically in a straight line to Jebel Anderaib, situated about 3 kilom. from the right bank of the Gash ; from there it runs nearly due west to a point on the Gash south of Jebel Gulsa, which it leaves entirely in Sudan territory ; from the right bank of the Gash it runs straight to the highest point of Jebel Abu Gamal.

* [From Jebel Abu Gamal it proceeds in a straight line to a point in latitude 14° 52' north, on the right bank of the Atbara in the small district of El Egeiri, which is bounded on the north by the districts of El Yoya and El Ruraeila and on the south by that of El Alim.]

* [From this point it ascends the deepest channel of the Atbara till it reaches its junction with the Setit, where it leaves the Atbara and ascends the deepest channel of the Setit to a point between the districts of El Gereiish and Abuda.]

* [From here it proceeds in a straight line on a true bearing of about 56° east of north to Todluc, leaving within the territory of Eritrea the group of low hills known as Jebel Alaklai.]

Done in double original at Todluk, the 16th day of April, 1901.

(Signed) M. G. TALBOT, Mtralai, Commissioner for the Sudan. (Signed) GIUSEPPE COLLI DI FELIZZANO, Tenente Piemonte Reale Cavalleria incaricato fer U Governo delT Eritrea.

(9.) DESCRIPTION OF THE LINE AGREED UPON FOR THE RECTIFICATION OF THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE ANGLO-EGYPTIAN SUDAN AND THE COLONY OF ERYTHRA. {With Map.)

The rectified boundary shall run from the highest summit of Jebel Abu Gamal to the highest point of the group of low hills known as El Burak, situated on the magnetic bearing of 175° from Abu Gamal and 14 kilometres distant. From El Burak it shall run in a straight line to the eastern ridge of the Koraiteb Hills, passing through the highest rock of this ridge, the highest of the whole group, and leaving to the Sudan the water-holes in the Koraiteb Rocks to the west of this line. The Sudan Government, however, shall allow Erythrsean subjects with caravans from Sogada toNoggara, or vice versd, or engaged in collecting gum in Erythraean territory, to use these water-holes. This privilege shall not be extended to hunters in Erythraean territory.

Between El Burak and Koraiteb, owing to the necessity of avoiding the tracts of pathless bush so frequently met with in this waterless area, the Commission was compelled to keep to the west of the direct line. It was, consequently, impossible to do more than to ascertain that the little hill of Murawi, the ridge of Gin jar, or Wad Ganjar, and the pond or marsh of Um Sagit, lie within Sudan territory without constituting them boundary points.

From Koraiteb the boundary shall pass in a straight line to the conspicuous clump of trees surrounded by stones at the western end of the hill known as J. Nuwar, and from there, on a magnetic bearing of 166°, to the road cleared this winter by Bimbashi Savile between Umbrega and El Hafeira, and striking it on the ridge between Wad Mizammil and El Hafeira at a distance of about 520 metres, measured along the track from the point where it crosses the nearest water channel immediately west of the ridge.

* These three ])aragra]>hs have been cancelled by the later agreement of 18.2.03 — G.