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296 SOUTHERN ROUTll.

miles.
total, stages.
[The following is the alternative approach from
Shiheir :
SH1HEIR, port; see I, p. 232.

Dir. W. for 3 m. along shore ; then road turns
inland, over very loose sand.
7 m. Zaghfah, village, with palm-grove.
Track ascends and crosses low gyp­
sum hills, over several small passes ;
fairly steep in parts, but never neces­
sary to dismount; brackish water
passed in two places.
3 m. Sida.
10 m. GhailBaWazir, large overgrown village,
described by Bent as ‘ a large town ’;
it is surrounded by small oases -with
rank vegetation; water, warm and
bitter, is collected from the ghail (a
running stream) into large reservoirs
and conducted to the fields by deep
canals; considerable cultivation of
tobacco, millet, and some cotton.
Dir. W. by S., over sandy tract, to join road
from Makalla a little short of Rashnid.
• 30 Rashnid.]

22 22 Rashnid; see above, p. 295.
Dir. N. by W., then bearing NW.
2 m. Wadi Ghdfit; water, small palm-groves, slight
herbage for camels.
7m. Sibfih; fair supply of water, ‘enough for
scores of camels ’. _
Road soon enters Wadi Huivari, which is
narrow and tortuous but contains water anc
grazing for a good number of camels ; trac v
then leads up to plateau, and is so steep anc
stonv that camel-riders usually dismount.
38 16 Tahiyah, small village with considerable cultivation,

alt. 900 ft. . , . .
Dir. NW., continuing to ascend Wadi Huwan, v, u
here resembles a gorge.
3 m. Jiricit.