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 in the šeʻîb of al-Arwaḥ in order to let the camels graze a little, and here we made a fire from the long-thorned branches of the sejâl, this being the only wood we could find (temperature: 40.8° C).



At 6.50 we rode across the šeʻîb of al-Ḥeṣâni. The road leads along the seashore itself, beneath a brittle slope of white marl, about six meters high, through which the šeîb of al-Ḫalal—which we crossed at 7.08—has worn away a deep channel. After 7.30 we proceeded across the marshy soil of al-Mamlaḥ, which extends to the southeast as far as the low hills of Ḥeḳînt ar-Rimṯ. Later we crossed the šeʻîb of al-Mrâtijje (formed by the union of al-Ḳrejẓi and an-Nwêbʻe) and beyond it al-Esâwed.