| | |days. This exhausted this supply. | | |A spring at the foot of the | | |southern end of the western face, | | |being on the road, is the one | | |generally used, and the supply is _Water Tank_ | 1½ | 267½ |consequently low. There is a tank | | |about 20 yards by 10 yards on a | | |detached hill, about ¾ mile N.W. | | |of main jebel. Water was found of | | |an average depth of 2 feet, both | | |sweet and clear. This being off | | |the road had not been much used. | | |There is said to be always water | | |at Mazmum. No natives[21] live | | |here now, though formerly it was | | |head quarters of the Abu Rof | | |Arabs, the remains of whose houses | | |are still visible. Good shade (200 | | |men), and very fair grazing for | | |camels near western water tank. | | |From here, Gireiwa and other hills | | |to the S. and S.E., as well as | | |Bunzuga and Abu Garud are easily | | |visible. | | | | 4 | 271½ |The track to Gule still leads | | |south, the country being open for | 5 | 276½ |first 4 miles, when narrow belt of | | |bush is traversed. Five miles | | |further on thick soffar bush | | |commences which develops into | | |forest, which extends E. and W. | | |continuously for many miles south | | |of Gule. The principal trees are | | |hashab (very numerous about 20th | | |mile, but decrease as Gireiwa is | | |approached), talh, nabag, soffar, | | |kadad, and the poisonous (to | | |camels) hakabit. Wide clearings | | |along the path indicate that in | | |the old days this road was much