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ROUTE 47 : IBHA—WAHLAH 229

ROUTE 47

IBHA—WAHLAH

Authority : Native information.
General Direction : WNW. ; then SSW.
Distance : Crow-fiy, 464 miles ; road, 71 miles
Character and Supplies : see p. 54 f.

miles.
total, stages.
IBHA, town; see I, p. 142.
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Dir generally WNW. [For the first two stages ot
the route, as far as Sheibein, see above, Route
No. 46, p. 227 f.]
36 36 Sheihein, village ; see above, p. 22S. From Sheibein
the road, still continuing through Rijal el-M‘a
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territory and turning almost due S., winds
through rugged and well-wooded country.
4 m. ‘Aqabat er-Riz, a steep and winding descent
to Rijal. i
2i m. Rijal, the most important village of Rijal i
el-M:a.
Descend the Wadi Rijal to Betilah.
3 m. Betilah, small village of stone-built houses in
Wadi Rim.
Descend Wadi Rim. I
2 m. Kisan, village of about 200 stone-built
houses. Dukhn and dhura are grown in the
neighbourhood. Still descending Wadi Rim,
the road goes SSW. through hilly and well-
wooded country (dom and 'aruj).
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Mahliyah, small village of straw huts.
7 m. The road comes out on a flat and sandy
plain with occasional patches of cultivation
and dom trees in the wadi.
1 m. Cross Ma ed-Dahijan, a small wadi which
joins the Wadi Rim and separates the Rijal
__ el-]M‘a from the Munjahah.
II ahlah, small village surrounded by sparse cultivation,
on the main maritime road, 6 miles SE. of Widan.