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280 SOUTH-WESTERN ROUTES

miles.
total, stages.
el-Amir, which passes Bir Sa'Td ‘Ali 8 m. before
preaching Lahej.]
16 16 Bir Sa'id Ali, 3 wells ; see above, p. 266.
Dir. N. through cultivation.
14 m. Wadi es-Saghir. Follow up stony bed of
wadi for 4 m. (or a track may be taken along
1. bank) ; then leave wadi and turn NW.
34 m. Bir Salim, well; water plentiful but in­
different.
[Track from Lahej 2 m. to W., joins in.]
24 8 Bir Am Seiji, camping-ground ; see above, p. 267.
[For details of stage from Bir Am Seifi. to Nubat
Dakim see Route No. 61, p. 267 f.]
40 16 Nubat Dakim, camping-ground ; see above, p. 268.
Dir. N., ascending over stony ground; then a descent.
14 m. Wadi Bilik is entered and followed for about
7 m.: or a good alternative road, made in
1903 for some distance along 1. bank, may
be taken.
54 m. Matlah, camping-ground much used by cara­
vans, but supply of water rather scanty and
impure. Wadi Bilih soon makes a bend, and
the track leaves it and turns up a dry wadi-
bed ; at 1 m. it comes out upon an open stony
plateau with good firm going ; then a descent
between rocky hills to Milah.
6 m. Milah, group of poor huts, on r. bank of
Wadi Milah. Camp on 1. bank, where there
is a large new well, with ample supply t
of good water ; a little forage may be ob­
tained locally. Military post (1903), on low
rocky hill 500 yds. NE.
[Tracks go off r. for Hajar and Sauda.]
Dir. N. of E. towards -Jehel Jirnil (a landmark), among
rocky hills, but good firm going.
6 m. Descend into Wadi Am Suheibiyak (jn>t
below Jebel Jimil), and turn N. up stoiv>
bed of wadi, on to the stony Habilein plateau,
where the territory of the Emir of Dim a
is entered ; the village of Suleiq (site ot a
military post) lies a little to E. Cross plateau. »