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ROUTE 60 : MAKALLA—LASHKHARAH 311

miles.
total, stages.
level, from which the route descends, after­
wards winding around belts of mangrove
bushes.
656 50 Jazir, a much frequented camping-ground; slightly
brackish water obtainable by digging in the
ground near the shore. [This is the only point
at which the land route from Oman (see Route
No. 70, pp. 313 If.) touches the coast.]

Dir. NNE., then bearing E. by N., generally between i
sand-hills and the lower sandy shore of Sauqirah
!
Bay, where there is grazing in the winter months.
i
739 83 Ras Madrakah, headland, 450 ft. high, 1 m. N. of which
there is good anchorage during the SW. monsoon.
Dir. generally N. by W.
2^ m. Well of good water, but slightly brackish.
3f m. Ras ed-Dila, fishing hamlet ; water. The
route now runs for some miles between sand­
hills and a low sandy shore ; it then ascends
to and runs along a tableland bordered by
i
perpendicular cliffs, from 230 to 480 ft. in i
height.
51- m. Ras Markaz, 480 ft. above sea-level.
331- m. Descent from tableland towards coast with
mangrove swamps, the track turning some­
what inland to avoid the latter. !
15 m. Ras Sireir. The route leads over low sand­
I hills.
802 63 Ras Sidarah ; hamlet and date-grove.
Dir. N. by E., ascending to a tableland similar to that in
the last stage, and then descending to Ras Sarab.
822 20 Ras Sarab, a low sandy point, with fishing village of the \
same name near it ; fairly good water at village.
Dir. generally NE., leading among low sand-hills.
32 m. The route begins to round the head of the
i
bay Ghubbah Hashish.
863 41 Mahot, village on island accessible at low tide ; see I,

p. 278. [Fur the camel caravan-route from Adam
in Oman to Mahot. see Route No. 70, p. 318.]
Dir. E., then bearing NE., across the Barr d-Hikman
peninsula, low-lying, sandy, and dotted with bush
and tussocks of grass.