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144 WESTERN ROUTES

miles.
total, stages.
11m. Rocks of Mehajjah ; some pasturage. Cross
Wadi Subal and Jebel Heliodn.
5 m. Valley of Qamrah ; good pasturage. Cross
Kharam ridge.

10 m. Valley of Nuqrah Rukhum. Cross ridge of
K hand/mwah.
149 36 Good camping-ground on SW. side of the Jebel Mi-stna
range ; some pasturage.
w. Dir. N. for 5 m., along the western side of an outlying
spur of Jebel Misma ; then E. by N. for 3 m.
towards the main ridge ; follow SW. side of
ridge for 7 J m., going NW. by N. ; cross ridge,
general dir. E. by N. (5 m.) ; then turn NE. by
N. and follow base of ridge for about oi m.
175 26 Base of Jebel Misma, on eastern side of ridge ; some
water.
General dir. at first ESE., then E. by N., mostly
across level neffid.
3S m. Rocks of Qcdas.
Dir. S. for 3i m., then slightly S. of E., parallel with
ridge of Jebel Dhela'cili.
230 55 Jefeifah, village; wells with good water, some cultivation.
Dir. ENE., across desert and spurs of Jebel Aja.
[The route followed by Huber and Euting between
Jefeifah and Muqaq wras not direct ; from Miiqaq
they crossed back into the Ha’il valley to the
western slopes of Jebel Serra, and then crossed
Jebel Aja a third time to reach Jefeifah. From
Jefeifah to Muqaq, direct, appears to be about
20 m.]
250 20 Miiqaq, village ; meadows, cultivation and palm-groves.
* Dir. E.
7 m. Rocks of Thenilah.
Dir. NE. along water-course into the pass of RV c$-
Self, a narrow' cleft or valley winding through
Jebel Aja.
12 m. Pass turns SE., and, after about 5 m., E.
by S.
278 2S Qafar (pronounced by Bedouins Jijfdr), town of nearly
3,000 inhabitants ; see I, p. 3S6.
[Huber and Euting did not call at Qafar, but took

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