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196 WESTERN ROUTES

ROUTE 35

JIDDAH—YAMBO'

Authorities : Egyptian War Office Itinerary, 1916 ; compared with native infor­
mation obtained by Shipley, 1912
Direction : NNW.
Distance : Crow-fly, 194 miles ; road, 232 miles, computed from the map of the
Egyptian War Office Itinerary.
Character and Supplies : see p. 50.

I. Route according to Egyptian War Office Itinerary
miles.
total, stages.
JIDDAH, port; see I, p. 122 f.
Dir. N. by W., along the coastal plain (Tihamah).
14 m. Jebel TJmm 'Arar (? Abar) passed to E.
Dir. N. by E.
8 m. The route for a mile or so skirts the head of
the inlet, Sherm Ubhur (or Buhur).
23 m. Tiwal.
17 m. Diwanat. ,
69 69 Qadhlmah or Qadheimah, group of hamlets ; see I, p. 122.
Dir. N. by W., gradually bearing NNW.
97 28 Rabugh, group of hamlets ; see I, p. 122.
Dir. NNW. over open ground.
21 m. The track runs through brushwood for a few
miles, and then through thin bush,
8 m. A narrow sandy path is reached.
[For a slightly variant description of the country
traversed in this stage from Rabugh, see above,
Route No. 27, p. 168, from Masturah to Rabugh.]
129 32 Masturah, village and wells ; see above, Route No. 27,
p. 168.
Dir. NW.
33 m. Cross Wadi Safrah.
8 m. A ruined fort is passed to 1., at the head of
Sherm Bareiqa.
2 in. Some ruins are passed to 1.
35 in. A road from Medina to Yatnbo*, through Bir
Sa'Id, comes in r.
Dir. W. by N., curving round to W. by S. I

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