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252 SOUTH-WESTERN ROUTES

miles.
total, stages.
are merely collections of huts, with perhaps
a small inn.
3 m. Muskuriyah.
m. Iswiyah.
2£ m. Mandhar, small village ; fairly good wells.
2 m. Uskhilah, good water, some of which is sup­
plied to Hodeidah, where (according to
Niebuhr) water is bad.
Wadi Sihdm crossed.
3 m. Malchdaji. Some 3 or 4 miles on, Wadi
Eshilah crossed.
4 m. Khabeir.
1 m. Massiyah, village.
3 m. Ldwiyah; Wadi 'Abbasi crossed; small village
of ‘Abbasi not far to S. of road.
1 m. Garri.
1 m. Qama, village.
3 m. MaJchfur, small hamlet.
3 m. Shabbiyah (Shebbe).
33 33 BEIT EL-FAQlH, town; see I, p. 174.
[Road goes off SE.for Jiblah and Ta‘izz. Another,
W. by S., for Ghuleifiqah, a shallow khor in Red
Sea, with extensive anchorage for small craft in
from 3 to 4 fathoms.]
Dir. SSW., still through the barren sandy Tihamah,
leaving telegraph line somewhat to E.
l£m. Jennah.
2| m. Ausam. Some little distance on, WadiGhamu
is crossed.
2 m. Wadi KmoaV is crossed; water only after
ram.
1 m. Mesatiyah.
2 m. Dimnah, small village. [Road goes off >s'^^ •
to Murrah and Tahita.]
Dir. S., passing two wells.
4 m. Mahallah (Mohall), village.
Three isolated wells passed in this section.
2 m. Mehat (Mahad), large village, situated >n
broad and fertile lUudi Mehat, where there
is considerable cultivation of indigo, t 11
this wadi, and Wadi Be.du■ a mile or so on.