Route 81, Debba to El Obeid [362 Miles] via Wabri, Elai, Safia, and Kagmar. This route is little used. The portion of the route from Debba to Safia is subject to the whim of the guide employed.
-Anglo-Egyptian Sudan: A Compendium…, 1905, Vol.II, Chapter VIII, Routes of Kordofan
We rode this route, in the 1980s greatly used by Sudanese camel exporters, roughly in reverse, departing from Nahud 130 miles WSW of El Obeid and arriving at the Nile just north of Debba, which stretched out the mileage considerably. I did not feel after leaving Al-Safiyya Wells that KhairAllah chose a whimsical route. We made a beeline for the Nile because we knew we’d need water before we got there and the intermediate wells were uncertain.