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2U2 WESTERN ROUTES

miles.
total. stages.
(m. 28 of route). The intermediate stages to
Mecca are : 2\ m., Shemeisah ; 2\ m., ‘Alamein ;
H m., Salim; "3 m., Boghdz ; 7 m., UmmUdud ;
2l m., Bostan ; 3 m. Jerwel; 3£ m. to Mecca.
54£ 25i MECCA,"town ; see I, pp. 123 ff.

C. Stations on the Route, according to the Egyptian
War Office Itinerary
JIDDAH, town; see I, p. 122 f. The intermediate
stations to Haddah are : 13£ m., Zalabani ; 3£ m.,
Jaradah, near Qahwat et-Temeisi ; 5 m., Abaci;
4 m., Bahriyah (Bahrah) ; 4 m. to Haddah.
30 30 Haddah, see above, p. 200 f. The intermediate stations
to Mecca are: 6 m., Shemeisah; then past
Qahwat el- Alamein, Qahwah Salim, Qahwat el-
Bostdn and Maghbaliyah (or Hajaliyah) ; 5^ m.
from Hajaliyah to Mecca.
56 26 MECCA, town ; see I, pp. 123 ff.
[Note. In the three variant accounts of the route,
which are given above, considerable discrepancies
will be noted both in the distances between
stations and in their relative order.]

ROUTE 38

MECCA—TA’IE

Authority : Burckhardt, IS 14, compared with the Egyptian War Office Itmerary>
1916 (Mecca to Taif); and War Office Report, October 1916 (Mecca to Aratat).
Direction: Generally E. bv S. , ,
Distance : Crow-fly, 64 miles ; road, 72 miles. The distances of tho three s • =■ *
are those given by Burckhardt; the detailed distances between the s ug s
are mainly computed from Iris times and must be accepted with reserve.
Character and Sup-plies : see p 52.
miles.
total. stages.
1 MECCA, town ; see I, pp. 123 ff.
Dir. N. by E. at first, past the barracks of the Sherif
on the 1., to the Ma'abdah (Mu'abidah) suburb.