cut-de-sac

Updated: May 25, 2025

By a few days' exploration, I found that the point of land from the junction of the Settite river with the Atbara, formed a narrow peninsula which was no wider than eight miles across from our encampment: thus the herds of game retreating from the south before the attacks of the seroot, found themselves driven into a cut-de-sac upon the strip of land between the broad and deep rivers the Settite and Atbara, which in the rainy season they dared not cross.

Sir Samuel White Baker - The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia, and the sword hunters of the Hamran arabs