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ROUTE 57 : HODEID AH—MOCHA 253

miles.
total, stages.
2 m. Jarbak ; 7 m. to end of stage.
57 24 ZEBID, town ; see I, p. 174.
[Road goes off SE. to Hais and Ta'izz ; another due
W. to Tahlta and the coast.]
[An alternative route, from Beit el-Faqlh to
Zebid. which seems to follow the telegraph line,
runs as follows :
BEIT EL-FAQlH.
4 m. Jabi, hamlet.
3 m. Road crosses Wadi Kuwai‘.
4 m. Mehat, large village in wadi of same
name.
7 m. Huseinlyah. According to Bury, the
paramount chief of the Zaranik tribe
has his head-quarters here.
ZEBID, 27 m.]
Dir. S. by E., leaving the telegraph line and crossing
Wadi Zebid. From this point to end of route the
villages and settlements are few and far between ;
the whole country is arid and very sandy, dotted
here and there with scrub, and covered in places
with coarse grass; the latter is much used as
roofing for huts in all the Tihamah region.
2 m. Turku in Wadi Jeresah, a fertile section of
Wadi Zebid.
5 m. Gabahrah. The fertile inland delta, watered
by the Zebid river and its branches, ends here.
8 m. Sherjah, village.
[Road goes off ESE. for Hais.]
Dir. SSW., passing a number of small hamlets, with
perhaps an inn.
3 in. Jurban.
4 m. Nahari, tomb of Sheikh, much visited as shrine.
5 m. Muhexjijan.
3 m. Jubeili.
93 36 Mushid, large village a few hundred feet from the sea.
D’Anville considers this place to be the ancient
!
Musa.
Dir. S. slightly by E., along the coast.
2 m. Dvrbu, small inn : some distance on, Memlah,
where are (or were) artificial salt-pans. In