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(1850) Author: Georg August Wallin
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[-the-]{+46 Dr. Wallin’s Route in Northern Arabia.

the+} boundaries of their territories. Towards the close of spring,
when water and pasture are scarce in the Nufood (Nufiidli), every
tribe draws nearer to its own town or village, and in the time of
the date-harvest they generally pitch their tents close to the walls
of their respective towns.

1848. On the 26th of April I left Teiina with an ’Awagy Bedooin of

Apr. 2G. the Bishr clan, who, having travelled from Hail (Hail) to Egypt
as a guide to a party of men sent in charge of twenty horses for
’Abbas Pasha, was now returning to his home. At the distance
of 1 h. S. of Teima we passed the solitary peak of Ghuneim, and
leaving it on our right hand entered on an open tract called
Sananiye (Sananiyeh). After travelling without any halt for
15 hours over this tract, and a continuation of it called al-Khawla
(Khaulah), we came to an encampment of the Fukara Bedooins,
consisting of more than 200 tents pitched at the foot of a solitary
sandstone hill named Gabal Bird.* As far as the darkness would
allow me to observe, for the greater part of this journey was made
in the night, our way passed over an unbroken plain bounded on
the N.E. by Nufood ranges, and extending to the S.W. without
visible limit. The Nufood was, as well as I could guess, about
5 hours from our route, and had the appearance of the declivity
of a sandstone range of hills rising above the western low land,
and running from N. to S.

Apr. 27. We spent the whole of the following day in the tents of the
Fukara Bedooins. In the evening we were joined by a party of
men from Egypt, where they had been sent at the end of the
preceding year by Ilm Sa’ood with horses for ’Abbas Pasha ; they were
now on their return to Riiacl (Riyad), the residence of their chief,
and had with them a slave sent by the Pasha to make further
purchases of Negd! horses.

Apr. 28. On the 28th we all joined company, and started from the tents
escorted by one of the Fukara sheikhs and a party of Bedooins.
Our road continued through the land of Khawla (Khaulah) in an
E.S.E. direction, over plains of soft sand intersected by low hills
and outlying masses of sandstone. The general aspect resembled
that of Al-Hisma, but a gradually increasing undulation of
surface marks the transition to the Nufood. We were travelling
this day only for 7 h. and 10 m.

Apr. 29. On the 29th, after proceeding for 1 h., we reached a pool of
water, called Mugheira (Mughe’irah), and in 3^ h. more came to
the southern declivity of the Nufood land. Our road was now a
constant succession of ups and downs over undulations of soft and
loose sand. 2| h. further on, we reached an isolated
sandstone-hill called ’Irnan (’Irnan), which contains a reservoir of water

* Bird, cold.—R.

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