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t EASTERN ROUTES
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ROUTE 14

KOWEIT—ZOBEIR

Authorities : Shakespear, 1911, Raunkiaer, 1912, and native information.
Direction : The genoral direction is a little E. of N., but in tho first stage, to the
/ * end of Kowcit Bay, almost due W.
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£ Distance : Crow-fly, 72 miles ; road, 96 miles.
Character and Supplies : see p. 3-1.

miles.
total, stages.
KOWEIT, town ; see I, p. 295 f.
20 20 Jahrah, village ; see I, p. 296 f. For details to this point,
see Route No. 9, p. 90.
Dir. NW.
3 m. Muila‘ Pass, a gap in the Jdl ez-Zor hills
between Mulld‘ hill on E. and MuteilVah hill
on W. Through the pass and up the valley
Jauf el-Mutla, till the plateau is reached.
Dir. N. by E., through the tracts of Zaqlah, Qira‘ el-
31 arm, and Yah, over stony but level ground,
passable for all vehicles.
20 m. Bdtih district entered.
3 m. Hissu Dhabi, two mounds passed. Route
crosses several slight ridges,
4 m. the most southerly, called Abatah,
5 m. the most northerly, Hamar.
7 m. SillJirfdn, a broad shallow depression, crossed,
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and route followed for 5 m. to end of stage.
67 47 Qash'dniyah, group of six wells with good water at IS ft.
At a distance of 5£ m. to ESE. lie the sweet-water
' r.
wells of Umm Niqqah.
Dir. NNW. over slightly undulating stony desert.
77 10 Safwan, frontier village, with a few small enclosures
containing houses, and a walled date-grove be­

longing to the Neqlb of Basra, to the E. of which
was (1911) a post of 10 zaptiehs. At 1 m. to W.
a Bedouin halting-place with wells of fair water
at 12 ft. Jebel Sanatn is 5 m. W. of the village.

[It is possible to_travel directly N. from the 3Iutld‘
Pass to Safwan, as Shakespear did in 1911 and

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