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244 SOUTH-WESTERN ROUTES

i miles.
: total, stages.
t 17 m. Bukeis, no village, but a well near the shrine
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i of ‘Abdul-Ghafar. The route there crosses
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sabkhah (salt ground) till near the Wadi
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Maur.
14 m. Naseib (Naseyyib), wells (see above, p. 243).
129 37 LOHEIA (or Lahiyah), port; see I, p. 173.
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ROUTE 54

TANUMAH—BARAK

Authority : Native information.
General Direction : NW.
Distance : Crow-fly, 47 miles ; road, 55 miles.
Character and Supplies: see p. 54 f.
miles.
total, stages.
Tanumah, large village ; see above, p. 222.
Dir. NW. over cultivated plateau for 9 miles, through
Beni Shihir territory, and then down the long
and steep pass of ‘Aqabah Sajein.
22 22 Ma el-‘Adawat; spring.

4 m. Nikhl, water and date grove. Level country
reached.
7 m. Marwa, small village. i
2 m. Mandar, small village.
Road crosses into Al Musa ibn ‘Ali terri­
tory and Barak district, and runs by the side
of Wadi Baqr through cultivation.
43 21 Jureihah, large village. Wadi Baqr flows W.
4 m. Ma'ash, small village.
Road enters Al Isba'i territory.
3 m. Sahil, large village of about 250 stone houses.
Road crosses Humeidah boundary.
55 12 Suq el-A‘jamah, large village in the district of Barak
(see I, p. 416), where an important market is
held and supplies may be obtained : see abo\e,
Route No. 49, p. 231.