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Koute No. S.3—contd.
throughout stages 12 to 14, except round Wasit (stage 13).
Lucerne is obtainable at Zilfi, and is plentiful at Buraidah.
Supplies. —Xone en route except at Zilfi (stage 12), where
limited quantities of dates, grain, melons, and lucerne are
available. There are also numerous flocks and herds, but very
few horses. At Kuwait there are fair numbers of camels; and
at Buraidah there are extensive fruit tree plantations, as well a?
a good many transport and slaughter animal i.
KUWAIT .. An open, undefended
town wirh a large
hazdr, and houses
mostly built of stone. Population, about 45,000 inhabitants.
There are no agricultural resources. The drinking water is
fairly good and is obtained from wells about 4 miles to the
south of the town and from boats pljdng from the Shatt-al-'Arab.
I ractically all supplies, except fresh vegetables, are obtainable in
large quantities. 1 he chief exports are ghi and horses ; and the
imports are piece goods, coffee, rice, sugar, tobacco, wheat and
barley. 1 here are important sea and pearl fisheries, and con
siderable fleets of boats. Camels are procurable in fair numbers.
2 SUBAIHIYAH .. 33 m. A double stage al-
most due south across
00 n1, he 'Adan plain.
At mile 15, a group of two or three small hills called Mi'adni-
yat.
At mile 24, the hill of Warah, and 100 wells of the same
name with good water at 18 feet. One mile to the west is the.
Kafud Warah, a hill of black stone 200 feet high.
At Subaihiyah there are about 100 wells scattered over
a square mile of plain, and yielding good water at from 6 to IS
t'.'et. I he soil here is white clay covered with white sand.
.1 hoie is no wood or camel grazing within li miles of the wells.
AS-SAFAH .. 110 m. Four caravan days'
~ * journey to the south-
14.5 m. west. At mile 8, the
(iiaed up wells of Thamilat-at-Turki lying 3 miles to the south of