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ROUTE 2: JAUE—BO REID AH 71

miles.'
total, stages.
Dir. a Little S. of E. along Labbah hollow.
■ 12 m. Dir. changes to SE. and Labbah quitted.
Across Nefud.
6 m. Dikakah, rolling downs.
12 m. Khubb Khaweir crossed, and Nefud entered.
14 m. Nefud quitted; route now over rolling
downs for many miles.
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15 m. Khubb Sahab crossed. Nefud again en­
tered.
11m. Nefud quitted. Route then descends 4 in­
to N. side of Khubb Hayyaniyah.

199 74 Qasr Hayyaniyah, fort in the Khubb ; stone-built in lower
courses, mud walls above ; towers at opposite
ends of a diagonal. According to Nolde, an
isolated tower, connected with the fort by an
underground- passage, exposes to cross-fire the
wells which lie between. Shakespear mentions
only one well, and says nothing of the outer
tower ; he states that the place is guarded by
half a dozen of the Emir of Ha’il’s men, who are
changed once a year. The wells are walled with
masonry and very deep (140-170 metres ; Nolde) :
water good and abundant.
[At Hayyaniyah a route runs almost S. to Ha’il;
see Route No. 4, p. 81.]
Dir. SE.
10 m. Khubb Hayyaniyah quitted. Over sandy
ground, across plain named Ajbilah and again
over sand.
12 m. Khubb Seilah.
[Just before reaching Khubb Seilah the track is
crossed by Route No. 5, Nejef-Hazil-Ha’il.]
Dir. changes to S. by E.

[Shakespear records 2 wells within the next 6 miles
and another 20 m. on, but, as in another place he
states that there is no water between Hayya­
niyah and Bir Zerud, these wells are perhaps
disused.]
161 m. From this point Trobah (Trubah) wells (see
Route No. 3, p. 78) lie 10 m. ENE.
4 m. Dir. now SE.