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294 SOUTH-WESTERN ROUTES

miles.
total, stages.
impassable, so track scales r. bank of wadi
and after crossing a ridge it rejoins the bed
of Wadi Khatib, which it descends as far as
:Abdan.
6(?)m. ‘Abdan, small agricultural settlement;
name of wadi here changes to Wadi 'Abdan.
Track continues to descend wadi, passing
the Shrine of Sidi Mabar ; the wadi gradually
widens, passing through miles of arable
land, till it finally emerges upon the Nisab
plain.
80 NISAB, town ; see I, p. 214 f.