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[-us-]{+Dr. Wallin’s Route in Northern Arabia.
49
us+} we saw the high single peak of al-Gidadiye (Jidddiyeh).
Beyond the Keisy ridge begins the plain of al-Khatta (Khattah),
situated, as the Bedooins say, between two nufood lands. We
crossed al-Khatta (Khattah), in a N.E. direction, in 7 h., during
which we passed, nearly in the centre of the plain, a very deep
well, called Bir Tayim (Bir Tayyem). In summer this land is
inhabited by the Sulabd, the most despised clan of the Hetei’m.
On the 8th we again crossed a tract of nufood, but much less
undulating than usual. After passing through it for 94 h. we
came to a well called al- Atwa (Atwa), about 50 fathoms deep, as
my companions said, built of hewn stone, of good, and evidently
very ancient, workmanship. Having continued our way for 4h.
more, we stopped to rest for the night. In the course of to-day’s
journey we passed some hillocks which appeared to be mere mounds
of loose sand, known by the general name of Ta’oos (Ta’us).*
On the 9th we passed by low ranges of sandstone hills called
Seila (Se’ilah), the first, with the exception of the mounds of sand
of yesterday, we had seen since leaving Gabal Keisy. At the
distance of 3 h. from Gabal Seihl we reached the boundary of the
nufood, and gradually descended to a tract of firmer sand; and,
4 h. further on, entered the land of al-IIamatiye, where we found a
little water in cavities in the limestone rock. On our left, or to
the W., we had now the land of al-Hayaniye (Hayaniyeli), where
water is also found, my companions told me, in similar
receptacles ; and on the right, at a distance of one day’s journey, due
E., is the land of Leind (Leinah), through which the Koofa
pilgrims pass. It is much frequented as a place of encampment by
the surrounding Bedooins, as water is found abundantly in wellsf
at a small depth from the surface. After a march of 31 h. more,
we stopped for the night.
On the 10th, 3h. and 20 m. brought us to a ridge of sand called
al-Dahana. (Dahanah), which is considered as the parent stock and
as constituting the N.E. boundary of the nufood. This ridge
extends from near al-Gawf, from which town we were distant
nearly 4 days eastward,j: without interruption, as far as ’Amood
al-Kheima§ (’Amudu-l-Khaimah), on the shore of the Persian Gulf.
The other ridges and spurs of the nufood all gradually diminish
in height as they descend towards that sea, and are more or less
broken by intermediate tracts of a different soil, and terminate
before they reach the shore. On the other side of al-Dahana, * * * §
* Ta’oos—peacock.—It.
t These wells are even mentioned by the author of the Kamoos [Kama’s] as
having been made by Sulehniin ibn Dawood.—W.
t Sic: but qu. about S.E. by S. ?—A.
§ Or Rasu-l-Khaimah, Cape Teut, well known by the defeat of the Jawdtliimah
pirates stationed there in 1809.—li.
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