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262 SOUTH-WESTERN ROUTES

miles.
total, stages.
13 m. Rakah, with cluster of rak trees, but no
water. Village of Kamidah, of about 50
houses, lies about 3 m. to SE. ; there is
brackish water here at 18 ft., and consider­
able wheat and lucerne cultivation.
Dir. slightly N. of E., across plain towards northern
spur of JebelTamrah.
691 65 Tamrah, village ; see above, Route No. 58, p. 256.

ROUTE 60

ADEN—SHEIKH SA'ID—MOCHA

Authorities: Military Report on Aden Protectorate, and information from Arab
tribes in neighbourhood of Aden. Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Pilot. Admiralty
Chart of Red Sea (Sheet 5).
General Direction : W. to Sheikh Sa‘Id ; then N. by W. to Mocha.
Distance : Crow-fly, 130 miles ; road, 1G5 miles.
Character and Supplies : see p. 57.

miles.
total. stages.
ADEN, town ; see I, p. 203 f.
Dir. N., along a made road, broad and with good
surface, to Sheikh ‘Othman.
2 m. Khar Maksar, Aden troop lines. [Road
leaves N. by E. along coast to Shughrah ;
see Route No. 65, pp. 285 fir.]
4 m. Sheikh ‘Othman, town; see I, p. 204f. !
Dir. W., over hard sand, across open desert. ^
44 m. Cross wide shallow bed of Wadi Kebir.
114 114 Bir Ahmed, populous village, on r. bank of Zeida

with extensive palm-grove one mile to E. : olr:x .
or nine wells, but water brackish, though pleati u
all the year round; two best wells among-
cultivation about 400 yds. E. of village;
camping-ground. . ,
Dir. W., over rather heavy sand, with short stie <■ ‘ ■
of hard track ; a number of tracks dneigt
various directions, in this stage ; keep going