Jfjnmients {Sudan, Erythrman, and Ahysdnian FnmHer 22.11.01; 28.2.01. 291 t The right of passage between the hills of J. Nuwar and J. El Batiota, as through the area known as El Makhram El Batiota, shall be enjoyed by the subjects of both Governments.

From the above-mentioned point on the Umbrega-El Hafeira road, now marked by a blazed " heglig " tree on the north side of the road, the boundary shall run straight to the bend of the Setit immediately opposite the mouth of the Khor Roy an.

(Signed) M. G. TALBOT, Colonel, Commissioner for the Sidan. Umbrega Camp, Februanj 18, 1903.

Copy given to the Erythraean Commissioner. — M. G. T.

(10) DECLARATION REGARDING THE SETTLEMENT OF THE ABYSSINIAN-SUDANESE-ERYTHREAN FRONTIERS.

It is agreed that, in order to complete the delimitation of the frontier between the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and Erythrsea, a line shall be drawn from Abu Gamal (see Talbot-CoUi map) to be eventually demarcated by special delegates in accordance with geographical features, in a southerly direction as far as the junction of the Khor Um Hagar with the River Setit. (See Talbot-Colli map 36° 37' east long.) The territory to the east of this line which has been recoginsed as Sudanese territory by the Emperor Menelik shall be transferred, subject to his consent, to Erythrsea.

The parallelogram west of this line and north of the Tomat-Todluk line shall be ceded by Italy to the Sudan. As a consequence of this arrangement the boundary line between the Sudan and Abyssinia from the Setit to Matamma shall be deflected towards the west, so as to leave on the Abyssinian side Nogara and the trade-route from Condar northwards towards Erythraja.

The British and Italian Agents in Abyssinia will work together in concert to obtain from the Emperor Menelik in return for this extension of the Abyssinian boundary, a zone of territory to the East of Todluk-Maieteb line, which will give to Erythrsea the whole of the Kunama tribe up to the Mareb.

Should these negotiations, after a reasonable lapse of time, prove unsuccessful, negotiations shall be resumed in Rome between the Italian and British delegates with the object of tracing the boundary between the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and Abyssinia on the basis of the Todluk-Ombrega or Maieteb-Jebel Obar lines, whilst, as regards the boundary between the Sudan and Erythrsea, the status quo ante of the territory North of the Tomat-Todluk line shall be preserved.

The arrangement contemplated in the present declaration shall be regarded as secret until the consent of the Emperor Menelik has been obtained.

Done at Rome, this twenty-second day of November, in the year one thousand nine hundred and one.

(Signed) F. MARTINI. RENNELL RODD.

G. AGNESA. GLEICHEN, Kaimakam. F. CICCODICOLA. J. L. HARRINGTON. A. BODRERO.

(11.) SABDERAT AGREEMENT.

Between the undersigned :— Colonel John Collinson, C.B., Mudir of Kassala, on the part of the Anglo-Egyptian Government, and Chevalier Ferdinando Martini, Royal Commissioner of Eritrea, on the part of the Government of His Majesty the King of Italy, have agreed to the following Convention :— ARTICLE I.

From the 1st March, 1901, " The Parsons-Martini Convention " regarding the question of pasturage* in the territory of the Erithrean Government signed at Asmara on the 7th of December, 1898, is abrogated.

ARTICLE II.

Each Government reserves to itself to permit or forbid the temporary emigration into its territory of tribes, or tractions of tribes, who desire to enter its territory for the purpose of pasturage of their flocks and herds, and reserves to itself the conditions under which such permission will be granted.

* Not printed. — G.

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