| | |Ariab. | | | | 1¾ | 98½ |Over stony khor, then into hills | | |again, and is stony, steep, bad | | |going. | | | _Rauai Wells_ | 2 | 100½ |Stony sort of square, surrounded | | |By stone hills, with a narrow khor | | |running out each corner. Large | | |graveyard on right. A few mimosa | | |trees and some coarse grass. | | |Indifferent camping ground. Wells | | |½ mile up a narrow, rocky defile, | | |running from east corner of | | |square; two wells, revetted stone, | | |good water 15 feet down; | | |practically unlimited supply. This | | |defile impassable for animals, | | |which must go by easier way over | | |hills to south-west, and then down | | |side of hill again to the wells. | | |Some rough drawings of camels, | | |men, &c., scratched on rocks round | | |wells. Rock grouse and partridges | | |here. Track now runs north-west | | |over short agaba, across a stony | | |khor, and again an agaba winding | | |over bare, stony hills; bad going; | | |then a long, narrow, sandy khor; | | |fair-going; then a rough, stony | | |agaba leading over hills called | | |Hadia Aweb or blackwater rock; | | |thence into Khor Thela, a short _Makadia | 14½ | 115 |agaba, and Bir Makadia, in small Wells_ | | |khor same name, at head of Ariab | | |valley; Ariab wells, about 6 miles | | |west of north from here; one well | | |good water 30 feet down, enough | | |for one battalion, which would | | |require 1½ hours to refill; good | | |grazing ground and fuel. Some