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[-Al-Tahuma,-]{+18
Dr. Wauin’s Route in Northern Arabia.
Al-Tahuma,+} in that part of it which lies between Muweilah and
’Ababa, is inhabited by various clans of Huweitat and Ma’aze;
the former occupying the lower districts near al-Sahil, and the
latter the more elevated, whence they occasionally pass over to
the plains of the interior.
I now resume the course of my route, in which we paused upon
the summit of Nakb al-Sawawin (Nakbu-s-Sawawin). From the
summit of this pass the land slopes towards the interior of the
desert ; hut both in this and the Sheraa chain the eastern descent is
as gentle and insensible as the western is abrupt and rapid, and
would be scarcely perceptible hut for the direction of the winter
torrents. We descended first into a valley called Wadi Rawian
(Wadi Rawiyan), and, following its downward course in an E.S.E.
direction for 1 h., turned to our left, and entered the land called
al-Hisma (Hisma), a vast plain of the soft and comparatively
fertile sand before mentioned,* and of which the Nufood (Nufudh)
desert of Ncgd (Nejd) for the most part consists. This plain
extends, between Ma’an (Ma’an) on the N. and Tebook (Tebuk) on
the S., from al-Tahama on the W. to the Syrian pilgrim road on
the E.; and continues to the N.E. under various names, with
partial interruptions from rocky and stony patches, till it joins the
Nufood (Nufudh) lands of Wadi Sirlian (Wadi Sirban) and the
Dahi or Nufoodf (Nufudh) desert. The southern boundary of
this plain is formed by the steep front of a lateral chain of hills
called Gibal al-Harra, which branches out at an acute angle from
the Shefa chain, opposite to the peak of Gahal Sliar (Jabal Shar),
and advances in a north-easterly direction till it gradually sinks
Yamdmd sive ’A rood (Yemen, lligiaz, Tehomam, Negid, et Iemamam, sive Aarud),
ad quas plerique addimt (al-Bahrein) Bahrein; licet nonnulli referre malint ad
Iracam, i. e. Babyloniam. Regionem Yemen a septentrione terminat (Nearan)
Nc-giran, inter montes oppidnm, quod regia sede et metropoli (Santa) Sanaa borealius
est x fere dierum itinere, habeas latitudinem graduum xix; item aliud (Halt)
lialio, non longe h Mari Rubro, sub lat. xx grad., et non procul ii Mari Persieo seu
Indico, antiquum emporium Oman, Ptolemaio quoque cognitum.”—p. 79.
It should be observed that Halt is not situated near the Persian Gulf, but on the
shore of the Red Sea, in 18° 38’ N. lat. by Captain Moresby’s chart. San’a also
is in about 15° 20’ N. lat.
“ (Al-J/igdz) lligiaz.— Arabia? pars inter Tebamam et Negsdam; ita dicta
com-muni fere scriptoi um consensu (Lianna hagazai bcinhonmd) qubd alteram ab altera
dirimit ; vel, ut alii volunt (Lianna ihtigazat bi-l-Gibdl) qubd colligata et constricta
montibus; Hagaza enim duo uotat: nempe cadem, quaj (man’a) impedirc et (shadd)
valide constringent. Regionem banc quoque terminat ad boream Arabia deserta,
quam illi (Bddict u-l-ShSn) desert um sive campos Si/rice vocaut.”—p. 98.
“ (Al-Negd) Negid seu Ncgd.—Vox hsec Arabibus terrain notat eminentiorem ;
et peculiariter Arabicc partem opponi solitam Tiliama?, qua-1 et (al- Ghoor) quasi
cava dicitur; licet permixta liabeat montosa quajdam: interjacet autem Negsda
inter regiones Iemamam, Iemem lligiaz, et Iracam.”—p. 94. A.
* See p. 14.
f Dahi is applied to the desert in the sense of its being a place open and exposed
to the sun, and, kut i£oxM> to its wide central expanse. Nufood seems to be used
with reference to the comparative fertility of the part so called.— A.
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