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miles.
total, stages.
107i 21 i Dahran, chief village of the Wada'ah. A market is
held every day, chiefly for the coffee which is
exported from Jebel Razah and district, The
road now turns S. on the way to Sa:dah, crosses
the Wada'ah boundary after about 6 miles and
so enters Yemen from Asir.

ROUTE 43

IBHA—BISHAH

Authority(1) Native information. (2) The variant account of the route is
taken from native information as to the Sherif’s march in 1911, after the
reconquest of Asir.
Direction : NNE.
Distance : Crow-fly, 139 miles ; road, 1541 or 1G4 miles.
Character and Supplies : see pp. 53 ff.

miles.
total, stages.
IBHA, town; see I, p. 142.
Dir. generally NE., down a slight slope along Wadi
Ibha.
3 nr. Juhdn, small village.
The road passes from the Beni Mugheid to
Beni Malik territory.
3 m. iSirr La‘san, small stone-built village.
2 m. Hijla, small stone-built village.
1 nr. Nijadhan, small gum plantation.
Shahran territory is now entered.
1 nr. :Atarci, small wadi and village of the same
name, belonging to the A1 Ghanrar section
of the Shahran.
1 nr. 'Itu'id, large village of mud houses.
12 12 Suq Khaims Musheit, town ; see I, p. 143.
i nr. Jambar, small mud-built village, belonging
to the Al Rusheid section of the Shahran.
1 m. Sonia'dah, village like Jambar.
91 nr. Wadi Ghairan Jluhra, where a perennial
spring is crossed and the country of the beni
Bijad section of the Shahran is entered. 1 to

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