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234 SOUTH-WESTERN ROUTES

miles.
total stages.
i Enel of RabFat et-Tahahin and beginning
of Bela:ir territory.
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\ 58 19 Sabt el-‘Umr, a fair-sized village where a market is held
} every Wednesday.
4
Wadi Helawiyah flows into Wadi Yiba. Road
crosses the latter and continues NW. over sandy
cultivated plain.
i 3 m. She:i el-'Umr el-Asfal, small village.

4£ m. He.il el-Muja‘adah, small hill and village.
3 m. Beit el-Nawashirah, 6 good wells ; no village.
) H m. Joz Bela'ir, large village; see above, p. 232.
[For details of the route from this point see above,
r Route No. 49, p. 232 f.]
b 87 29 QUNFTJDAH, port; see I, p. 143 f.

ROUTE 51

MUHA’IL—HALI POINT

(Sikkat esh-Sheraf)

Authority : Native information.
General Direction : S. of W.
Distance : Crow-fly, 50 miles ; road, 84 miles.
Character and Supplies : see p. 54 f.

miles.
total, stages.
!
IVIUHA’IL, town ; see I, p. 142 f.
Dir. at first NW. over level and well-cultivated
country bv the side of the wadi formed by the
junction of Wadis Taijyah and Ahdbesh.
1 m. Rakiyah, small stone-built village.
-i m. Hajaf, small stone-built village.
1 m. Hali el-M'a, small stone-built village.
1 m. Sirr, an abandoned Turkish post. ^ I he
A1 Musa territory ends and that ot t u
nomadic A1 Ikhtarsh section of the bciu
and
Hilal begins. Cultivation now ceases
the country is level with patches ot spat^e
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