'Routes in Arabia' [‎290] (323/852)

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Koute No. 80— contd.
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vegetables are grown; 20 'Oman t askaria. Here Route No-
79, Dhufar-'Oman Proper, branches off.
At mile 4, cross a stream from a fresh water spring.
At m. 0, 'Auqad, the westernmost village in the Dhufar
plain ; village in two parts, 'Anqad Bait Fadhil, 60 houses, and
'Auqad Bait Marhun, 15 houses, ^ a mile away to the east.
Water-supply from wells at 12 to 18 feet. Some maize and hajri;
600 cattle, and same number cf sheep and goats.
Risut, a mud built bazar with a score of shops, increasing to
40 or 50 between March and September. A torrent bed reaches
Risut Bay through a small lagoon ; 1 miles up this ravine is a
fresh water spring. Boats from Sfir and Masqat town call in here,
but none belong to the place ; 300 cattle ; and 200 sheep and
goats; a dozen 'aslcaris generally here.
5 RAKHYUT .. 45 m. West-south-west.
Across the promon-
97 m . tory of Ras Risut and
along the foot of the mountain range which approaches the shore
here.
At mile 5, Ras-al-Himar ; a rocky bluff.
Route then runs round the Ghubbat Fazaiy h ; coast rocky
and irregular.
Cross the mouth of the Khais-bin-'Umr valley; a few limes
and tamarinds.
At mile 32, cross a table-land which rises to about 3,380 feet,
and from which Ras Sajar juts out. This point is the boundary
between the political jurisdictions of Masqat and Aden.
From here the route runs along the mountains which, to
mile 40J, rise from the sea like a wall.
Saf qot, a hamlet of about a dozen houses, situated in the
Khaisat-bin-'Uthman, a deep ravine which comes down to the
sea.
The route now crosses a mountainous ridge, scarped on the
side towards the sea.
Rakhyut, a Qara village of from 60 to 70 houses of mud,
situated on the west side of the Rakhyut creek, on the opposite
side of which is a guard tower. Rakhyut is the most westerly
point of control of the Wali of Dhufar.