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106 EASTERN ROUTES (

miles.
totaL stages.
19 m. Imleijah, walled village, with dates, palms,
and tamarisks, but no permanent population.
Through, low hills by winding course for 4 m.
154 23 Nta‘ (or Anta‘), village of 250 houses and 3^ mosques ;
with bastioned mud walls 12 ft. high, and gates N.
and S. Nta‘ lies about 50 m. inland from foot
of Musallamiyah Bay. Inhabitants are Hadhar
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or settled Arabs of the ‘Ajman, ‘Awazim, Beni
' Khalid, Muteir, Rasha’idah, and S. Shammar
; tribes, belonging to the Sunni sect, under an
j Emir who is head of all the settled population in
Wadi el-Miyah. Nta‘ is said to pay tribute to the
; Sheikh of Koweit, who, however, does not claim
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the district.
••i Good water, sufficient for irrigation; wheat,
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barley, and maize grown ; 30 camels, 120 donkeys,
120 head of cattle ; sheep and goats.
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[For an alternative route from Koweit to Nta‘ (150 m.),
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see below, p. 108.]

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Dir. S. along Wadi el-Miyah, over firm dark-brown
i soil.
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ii 8 m. Sarrar, walled village of 50 houses ; wells ;
il 150 date-palms. Live-stock : 30 camels, 150
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donkeys, 130 head of cattle, and a few horses.
11 m. Dir. SE. Thaj, village in centre of extensive
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ruins, lies 3 m. to E. On for 5 m. along the wadi.
i 178 24 Bakha, with water from springs ; fodder abundant in
spring ; fuel sufficient. !
Dir. slightly E. of S. along the wadi.
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\ 2 m. Hanidh, wells on W. of track; wells of
• *. 'Ala’imiyah on E.
12 m. Qabeibah, wells ; from which route ascends
for 16 m. to end of stage.
208 30 Dhabatiyah, group of 3 or 4 wells, good water at 12-18 ft.
Dir. SSE. along the wadi.
15 m. The wadi quitted ; route enters the district
of Habl, a region of dark sand in which
i mounds alternate with depressions, bearing
markh trees, shrubs, and grass. Track passes