"دليل الجزيرة العربية المجلد II" [‎١‎٣‎٩‎٦] (٦٨٨/٤٥٧)

1396
'OMAN
Name.
i&uwaih ..
Position.
8 miles south-west of
Ras-ar-Ruwais.
Khar Bani Bu 'AH
Jumaifab
Lashkharah
6 miles south of
Khor Bani Bu 'Ali.
11 mfles south-west
of Jumailah,
A permanent vil
lage consisting of
a fort, a stone
mosque and a tem
porary village of 50
huts.
2 miles south-west of
of Suwaih.
An inlet of the sea
said to be as large
as Khor-al-Hajar,
but it has not yet
been examined;
the entrance is
masked by a large
black rock.
A village of 25
houses of Bani Bu
'Ali.
R emarks.
The inhabitants are
Bani Bu 'Ali. The
temporary village is
inhabited during the
north-east monsoon
and deserted in sum
mer. In the season
there are 4 hadans,
15 fishing boats, 8
cattle and 700 sheep
and goats. Water is
brought from a dis
tance of about 5
miles.
The Khor affords
shelter to coasting
and fishing craft,
and as many as 30
coasters may be seen
hauled up here in
summer, but there is
no permanent villag©
the people frequent
ing the place are of
the Bani Bu 'Ali
tribe. Slaves for
Sur were formerly
landed here. The
Khor was first dis
covered in 1886.
1 mile south of the
village is a low sandy
cape of the same
name.
See Lashkharah in
the article Ja'alan.
This section of the cost is sandv and (IptsnTa+o ,
adjoining Ras-al-Hadd which has a nearly continuouJ80^1 W 0fab0Ut25miIe8
inhabitants nearly all belong to the Bani Bu ' AH frih^ w , 0 feet 111 height. The
ed with them. & 1 Bu Ah tribe ' but a ^w Jannabah are interspers-
Hds Jibsh to Rds Mishdyu. —The next inn i „ ..
J&h to E. 3 Mishayu, a distance of 97