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milos.
total, stages.
town (see below), at first over nefud, then
stony steppe with limestone outcrops and
many dry sha'ibs.)
i 4 m. Farther bank of Wadi Rummah, 500 yards
wide, by causeway, crossing water-course
under cliffy right bank.
Flat unfertile plain; jdl 1 m. on E. ; qasrs
scattered over plain. Wells, saltish.
170 22 Aufizlyah, village (owned by Aneizah); 300 inhab.; small
groves and fields and little stock ; wells, 5 ft.
Dir. SSE. Sleppe with water near surface.
3 m. A qasr, 1 m. right, with groves.
3 m. The jdl on E. interrupted for 2 m. Nefud
appears behind. Pass a khdr, very soft after
rain.
1S3 13 Mudhnib, town ; see I, p. 367.
Dir. SSE. Pass W. of town, gardens lying W. again.
2 m. Qasr of Ibn SaTid, sweet well and gardens.
2 ni. Reach edge of Mudhnib depression, and
garden, Raudhat el-Ba‘.
2 m. Cross sha'ib. Flat-topped low hills.
195 12 Murabba‘, village ; 4 isolated qasrs in green hollow ;
'50 inhab. ; wells.
Dir. SSE. Qasr el-'A mar 3 m. W.
4 m. Enter 'Ayini es-Sirr depression; nefud 4 m.
distant E.
61 m. Cross Slia'ib el-Watheildni. Qasr Watheildn
1 m. E.
'Ain es-Suiueina1 lies 2 m. W. (this, accord­
I ing to Doughty, is the first stage from Aneizah
by fast dromedary post).
3 m. Qasr ‘Ain Ibn Sabah; running water and
: gardens.

61 m. Qasr Ibn Ndsir, near dry lake-bed ; gardens ;
brackish spring.
217 22 ‘Ain el-Jareifah, village, sweet wells, in sha'ib.
Dir. SSE. After 3 m. ascend out of ‘Ayun es-Sirr de­
pression to nefud with grazing in hollows. Enter
Woslim.
18 m. Leave nefud and enter stony steppe with
sandy patches.
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