| | | | |is still found. The hills | | | | |soon get lower and wadi less | | | | |confined. | | | | | | — | — | 4½ | 106½ |A track from Hesmet Omar. | | | | | | — | — | 2¼ | 108¾ |Saddle at head of Wadi | | | | |Abaraga is reached, easy | | | | |ascent and descent commenced | | | | |over gently sloping gravel Wadi Abu | 7¾ | 42¼ | 2¼ | 111 |to the Wadi Abu Bard which Bard | | | | |flows through an open valley | | | | |2 to 3 miles wide. Plenty of | | | | |wood in wadi. | | | | | | — | — | 2 | 113 |The same direction is | | | | |continued across the wadi | — | — | 3½ | 116½ |till a low saddle is | | | | |crossed, and track descends | | | | |a branch of Abu Bard for a | | | | |little more than a mile; | | | | |then across an open space | | | | |N.E. up an affluent of the | | | | |same branch till it crosses | | | | |a low saddle at its head and | | | | |descends into an affluent of | | | | |the Wadi Hesmet Omar. This | | | | |part is very stony and | | | | |severe on plains camels, | | | | |though the gradients are not | | | | |heavy. The track keeps down | | | | |the valley, crossing a | | | | |couple of affluents bounded | | | | |by low hills, till it | | | | |reaches another low, but | | | | |stony saddle, whence it | | | | |descends into and crosses an | | | | |affluent of the Wadi Abu | | | | |Tabag or Wadi Ga; after | — | — | 5 | 121½ |another 2 miles of stony | | | | |ground the track descends