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290 SOUTH-WESTERN ROUTES

miles.
total, stages.
2 m. Wadi Khaura opens out to width of about
three-quarters of a mile; some little dis­
tance on, track emerges through narrow
cleft to plain of Khaura, afterwards rejoining
wadi.

7 m. Setanan, village with cultivation ; 2 m. to
end of stage.
105 15 Hautah, village, with considerable cultivation and a few
date-palms.

Dir. N. of E., over cultivation for some little way ;
then track finally leaves Wadi Khaura and
traverses a succession of hills and gullies ; it
crosses the Heid Diyan range by an extremely
steep and rugged pass, and descends to a plain
dotted with thorny scrub.
5 m. Wadi el-Hajar, where there is a well; track
follows this wadi for a short distance, then
strikes across alternating barren sandy plain
and rugged hilly ground.
6 m. Wadi Subhan ; here cultivation recommences.
2 m. Heid Qallah. Medaq, a residence of the Sultan
of ‘Aulaqi, on a hill, here sighted.
123 18 NISAB, town; see I, p. 214 f.
Dir. E., across a sandy plain.
4 m. (about). Track rounds a mountain spur,
turns S., and enters Wadi Hannah, which
it follows, crossing and recrossing the wadi
several times until reaching JauL JUutti
plain. After some distance it bears SE. and
goes through a defile.
14 m. (about). Qam edh-Dhi’b (or Dhi'ab), an
isolated rock, about 1 m. r. of path, which
holds water for months after rain (practieallv
the only water between Nisab and Seina).
Dir. vSSE., good going, across the plain of Jaul Dabra.
which is level but sandy and bare.
151 2S Seina (Sena), small town.
Dir. N. of E., passing the small settlement?
Da/chul and Serra. Route then traverses a
plain thinly wooded with mimosa and asceiu?
to the cairn of Sheikh ‘Obeid. It then beat?