And between Egipt and Nubye it hath well a twelve journeys of desert.
-The Travels of John Mandeville
It is amazing that this 14th C pseudonymous plagiarist of others’ Travels should be accurate about the day stages between Nubia and Egypt, let us say Dongola and Binban, for in fact it was twelve days of riding, passing Kerma, Argo, Solb, Abri, Hamīd, Farka, Argīn, Toshka, Abu Simbel, Kalabsha, the High Dam, and Aswan, headed north, not stopping.