To To S.S.W. Umm Sheggar. S.E.S. Kustul. " Neba (Nebo?). S.E. Umm el 'Aamed. " Main. " Khan em Meshettah. S. Medeba. " Jawah. S.E.S. Ekfairat " Kuriet es Sook. (Kephiroth?). " Jelool. E. Samek. " Umm er Rumaneh. E.E.N. Ela'al. " Zubairah. N. Es-Salt. " Manjah. (The town not visible.) These must have been the places that "stood under the shadow of Heshbon," (Jer. xlviii. 45.) One of them at least appears in Joshua xiii. 17, etc., among "the cities that are in the plain of Heshbon." {17} In half an hour we came to _Ela'al_, (Elealeh,) (Isa. xv. 4 and xvi. 9, and Jer. xlviii. 34.) Large stones were lying about, and one column standing upright, but without a capital. Fine corn-plains in every direction around. Our tents pitched at _Na'oor_ were visible to the E.N.E. through an opening between two hills. Cool cloudy day; all of us enjoying the ride through wheat-fields, and over large unoccupied plains--my old friend 'Abdu'l 'Azeez still adhering to me as his willing auditor. On coming up to his camp at Na'oor, we found that Shaikh Deab had already arrived. And now I may pause in the narrative to describe the _status_ of (1.) ourselves; (2.) the Arabs. (1.) Although apparently forming one company of English travellers, we were really a combination of several small sets, of two or three persons each--every set having its own cook, muleteer, and dragoman; but all the sets on terms of pleasant intercourse, and smoking or taking tea with each other. We calculated that our horses and mules amounted to above a hundred in number. (2.) The whole territory from Kerak to Jerash is that of our 'Adwan tribe, but divided into three sections--the middle portion being that of the supreme chief Deab, the northern third that of 'Abdu'l 'Azeez, and the southern that of a third named Altchai in the south towards Kerak; but they all combine when necessary for a general object. The 'Adwan sow corn by the labour of their purchased slaves. Gublan at Cuferain, Deab and his son 'Ali at Nimrin, and a portion of the tribe called "the children of Eyoob" cultivate in the same manner a tract near the Dead Sea called the _Mezraa'_. These latter attach themselves sometimes to the Deab section, called the _Dar 'Ali_, and sometimes to the Gublan section, called the _Dar Nim'r_. Their district is but a comparatively narrow strip at present, as they are pressed upon by the _Beni Sukh'r_ on the east, who are again pressed upon by the _'Anezeh_ farther eastward; these last are allies of our people.