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ROUTE 60 : ADEN—MOCHA 263

miles.
total, stages.
3£ m. Bir Fadl, well, over 50 ft. deep, water all the
year round ; good camping-ground.
Dir. W. by S., over sandy ground covered with coarse
grass ; a number of large spreading acacia trees
here and there.
8 m. Bir Bureimiyah, well 50 ft. deep, with 10 ft.
brackish water, sufficient to water 300 camels
a day.
Dir. almost due W., over a stretch of several miles
of sand with coarse grass.
31 4 20 Bir Am Makhnuq, well 60 ft. deep, with 11 ft. brackish
water ; surrounded by jungle ; no village, but
numerous nomads in vicinity.

Dir. WSW., for 5 miles, over sandy ground with
acacia jungle; then open sandy ground, soft
in places.
16 m. Wadi Bar crossed.
2 m. Hiswah Qalo, small spring of fresh water.
2 m. Jebel Am Birkah, a double-peaked hill, lying
away to S. ; then Jebel Sunamma is passed
to 1., about 4 miles from Bar Mujahhar.
56 244 Bar Mujahhar, small mud tower on 1. bank of Wadi Am
Shahar; a few patches of cultivation; no perma­
nent inhabitants. One well (Bir Subahi), 150 ft.
deep, brackish water, difficult to draw owing to
great depth. There is a spring of fresh water at
Hiswat Am Kheidar, at mouth of wadi, 4 miles S.
[An alternative route from Bir Am Makhnuq
to Bar Mujahhar—264 m. in length—runs by way
of the coast and Jebel Marsa, where there is a good
camping-ground ; but the track is more difficult.]
Road crosses Wadi Am Shahar.
Dir. WSW. across firm gravelly soil.
10 m. Road now approaches seashore and skirts
Khor‘ Umeirah,a shallow lagoon(4m. by2 m.),
cut off from sea by narrow sand spit with
opening at -western end.
2 m. Bar ‘Umeir, small mud building, owned by
Sultan of Lahej; well 37 ft. deep, 8 ft.
brackish water, sufficient for about 200
camels.

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