'Routes in Arabia' [‎366] (399/852)

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Route No. 99 -cmtd.
■very plentiful Ordinary country provisions are obtainable.
If notice is given to the Yafai Sultan supplies can be obtained
from the neighbourhood. There is a good road running south
to Khan Far, m. 9^.
5 HISWA1 MUBA- 10 m. The road now runs
— • RAX. north'iu)rth.-ca6t to the
^6 m. • Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Hatat, m. 4.,
and there turns north along the bed of this wldi, which is uneven
and full of stoaa.j (not shingle), to Hiswat MubaraJ?, m. 10. Here
there is good water obtained by digging in the bod of the
stream. Fuel and camel fodder only available.
There is no place to pitch tents except the bed of the stream,
which is full of stones.
6 GHAIL-AR- .. 15m. The road continues
- RUQLB. up the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Hatat
^' m - and is very bad going.
The following springs in the bed are passed
Okail-an-Naqll, at m. 0,
Ghail-al-Jiror, at m. 9,
Ghail-al-Maksara, at m. 10,
Ghail-al Mathab, at m. 12,
and then Ghail-ar-Ruqubis reached. Here water from the bed
of tiie stream is good but hard. -Fuel and c.xmel fodder only.
There are a few huts and a coffee plantation. Height above sea
3,400 feet. The bed of the stream or the small fiefda near it ara
the only places for a camp for a large party.
7 AL-QARAH .. 15 m. The road follows th^
(Stream, and at 150
^ yards from the camp
passes a rapid 100 feet in height, then zigzags up the hillside on
the right bank, the path being in very bad order and trying to
t-uimals (14 days' work would put it right). It then deacend^
iuto the bed^ of the stream again, and about 300 yards farther
t; road brancnos off to the loft up a side vail jy by moans of which
the Maskabah Pass could be tarnod; thi? road is practicable
lor infantry and mountain guns. At the }K)int where this road
X.-® e9 ( ft" there tvr- ji lew huts built of stone and a
tmall to wer on a spur.