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230 SOUTH-WESTERN ROUTES

i ROUTE 48

MUHA’ IL—TANUMA H
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Authority : Native information.
General Direction : slightly S. of E.
Distance : Crow-fly, 32 miles; road, 41 miles.
i Character and Supplier : see p. 54 f.
; miles.
f total, stages.
i * MUHA’IL, town; see I, p. 142 f.
Dir. NE. over a fertile plain.
24 m. Hamata, small village.
2 m. ‘Alamo,, small village.
Road passes from A1 Musa to Reish
territory.
14 m. Umm Sh.a‘thah, large village of about 300
stone-built houses.
14 m. Sakan er-Reish, fair-sized village.
14 m. Hajju, small village.
4 m. Hadhdn, a fair-sized village.
Dir.” SE.
3 m. Madba1, small village.
Road ascends hilly cultivated country.
4J m. Qarn el-JPa, small village.
24 in. Qiiddus, small village.
Road passes from Reish to Balasmar
territory. Still ascending.
22 22 Khamis Makhadah, large village of about 200 houses ;

big market held every Thursday. Road passes
through woods and hills with coffee terraces.
5 m. Dhirwa, small village.
Dir. E.
3 m. Jebel Haddah, several villages ; coffee centre.
After 5 miles road enters Beni Shihir
country.
41 19 Tanumah, large village ; see above, p. 222.