gasch

Updated: July 22, 2025

At last the caravan entered the fertile district of Tak or El Gasch, a wide watered plain, whose soil is wonderfully fertile, but which for two months in the year is uninhabited. Grain is plentiful and is sold in Jeddah for twenty per cent. more than the best Egyptian millet.

Jules Verne - Celebrated Travels and Travellers: Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century