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ROUTE 66: SHUGHRAH—MAKALLA 291
;
miles.
total, stages.
NE., descends a long gentle slope into a ravine, I
ascends a narrow pass, and descends into another
ravine.
6 m. Wadi Hebra, a gorge-like valley, leading into
the well-cultivated and wooded Wadi Yeshbum.
3 m. Sa‘id, village, situated to 1. of track, and
Wasitah to r.
Dir. E., along the shingly bed of Wadi Yeshbum for
some little distance; track then ascends out of the
wadi and runs along the crest of a ridge, above'
the village of Kaulah, to the Furda Pass by
which it descends into the wadi again ; the wadi
is then followed to Yeshbum.
3 m. Medal.
Dir. E. of S. ;
165 14 Yeshbum, town ; see I, p. 215. :
Dir. SE., down the wadi, known at first as Wadi 1
Yeshbum. then as Ghail Habbdn. :
104 m. Habban, town; see I, p. 230.
Dir. slightly S. of E., along the well-watered Ghail
Habban.
7 m. Kidur, village ; water.

205 40 Naqb el-Hajar, ruins surrounded by a wall, on a hillock
in the middle of Wadi Me if a' : there is a
masonry well here, with water at 60 ft.
Dir. ESE., down Wadi 4Ieifa!, along which are wells
and also running water for some time after rain ;
good camel-grazing : valley is at first well-wooded
with acacia and tamarisk, the trees becoming
fewer as the route proceeds.
24 m. Track crosses a hill of red sandstone, 200 ft.
high. In the next 10 miles the following
small villages are passed: Judical ‘Ajil,
Sa'id. Mansiirah, Jadical Sheikh, ffharijah,
and Sahun; water is obtainable at each, either
from springs or wells.
104 m. A few very small hamlets passed in this
•section ; trees and vegetation gradually
disappear.
11 m. Road leaves Wadi Mcifa'.
Dir. SE.

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