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ROUTE 53 : LITH—WADI ‘AIN AND LOHEIA 237

ROUTE 53

LITH—WADI ‘AIN AND LOHEIA

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Authorities: (1) Native information, compared with the Red Sea Pilot. (2) The i
alternative routes from Llth to Loheia and from Umm el-Khishib to Loheia
are from native information obtained by Col. R. A. Wauhope, the section in
the first route, from Lith to Qunfudah, being based on Turkish accounts of !
the Ottoman Campaign in Asir in 1911 and 1912.
General Direction : Roughly SSE.
Distance : Crow-fly, 325 miles ; road, 399 or 421 miles.
Character and Supplies : see p. 54 f.
miles.
total, stages.
Lith, fishing village ; see I, p. 123.
The road passes through Dhawi Hasan country.
11 m. Jabrat el-‘Ud Hashim, small village.
23 23 Matla, small village.
9 m. Raq, small village.
44 21 Hamdh, small village. Road enters Dhawi Barakat
country.
5 m. Theyyah, small village.
2 m. Dokhat esh-Shamlyah, large village.

5 m. Dokhat el-Yemeniyah, a fertile wadi, crossed.
64 20 Sifsafa, small village.
3 m. ‘Uruj, small village. Road passes into
Zobeid territory.
3 m. ‘Ajelein, small village in Wadi Lahsaba.
5 m. Hawatimah, hamlet.
79 15 Abu Hanash, village.
2i m. Qurma, village.
2 m. Luma, village.
Beni Zeid country is now entered.
2 m. Rahman, village.
2.V m. Masha’ikh, village.
2.V m. Sa'dah, village.
2 m. ‘,4mA, village.
•4 15 QUNFUDAH, port; see I, p. 143 f.
7 m. Nakhl Maqbul, wells ; Wadi Mishrif (or
Mashrlf) crossed.
7 m. Bir ed-Dibbah : wells ; Wadi Yiba crossed.
U1 17 Muhaghwilah, small village.
11 m. Road enters Beni Ya'lah territory.

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