| | |for 1¾ miles crosses stony | | |ground strewn with boulders. It | | |then gets on to sandy and more | | |open ground, and is good to 3 | | |miles when it drops down to | | |valley of river by a bad path. | | |Then very good sand to 4 miles, | | |where it strikes river bank at | | |Kamasab, just opposite Jebel | | |Us. From here road is bad | | |nearly to 6 miles, when a strip | | |of good going takes it as far | | |as Shukoka, 9 miles, where | | |there is a little cultivation | | |on the bank of the river and on | | |a backwater. Southern end of Dakhfili, | 12½ | 75 |Dakhfili is reached at 12½ south end | | |miles, road being partly along | | |river and never very far from | | |it, and passing several small | | |groups of huts. Dakhfili is a | | |large camping ground ¾ mile | | |long, opposite Shirri Island. | | |It has a few palms and some | | |large sunt trees. No | | |cultivation to speak of. | | | | | |There is another route to | | |Dakhfili from Hosh El Geruf, | | |which leaves the river at much | | |the same place, and keeps | | |straight across the desert to | | |Dakhfili. It was much used by | | |convoys, even at night, and is | | |undoubtedly much better going | | |than the Salmia route, and | | |probably a couple of miles | | |shorter, but there is no water | | |along it. | | | | | |At the north-east end of | | |Dakhfili, road leaves the