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i WESTERN ROUTs.
140
') miles.
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i total, atagos.
valley ; troops of ostriches occasionally sighted.
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! Track along the wadi, arid in parts, often gravelly
and frequently winding awkwardly among small
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! sand-hills.
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Dir E. for a short distance.
9 m. Meiseri, wells to W.
! Dir. bearing round to SE.
.. < 5 m. Nabdq ; wells sunk in sandstone and con­
! taining good water at 11 ft.
s.;
i 12 m. Hellqim, wells, about 3 m. away, to ESE.
14 m. Jeraiui, wells, surrounded by shrubs and
i bushes.
« 3 m. ‘Arfajah, 10 wells, about 500 yards to r. of
track ; 5 more at Mashash 'Arfajah, about
one hour to E.
270 46 Sheghdr (Serar), four wells; six at Meiqiim and twenty
at Sebeikhah, some distance S.; water at all
these all the year round.
Dir. ESE.
14 m. Jervmez. Jebd Sebeikhah lies about 3 m. due
S.; monolithic hill of Jedwah passed to 1.,
about 16 m. on.
22 m. Sha‘ib Humana crossed ; route now runs for
several miles parallel to Jebel Adhara* range
lying about 5 m. to N.
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8 m. Adhara\ camp ; no water along remaining
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20 m. to Jauf.
Dir. E. for about 9 m., then bearing gradually E.
, i byN. Abu Qa-sr, small settlement at head of the
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: ; Jauf depression.
334 64 JAUF EL-‘AMR, town; see I, p. 3S7 f.

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The following is an alternative description of the route from
Akaba to Ma'an, based on Jaussen’s report:
! miles.
total, stages.
Akaba, village.
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Dir. N. across the plain.
44 m. Ascend 17ddi Yitm, here about 150 yds
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wide ; flooded in winter.
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