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Route No. 97— contd,
water but I think any large number of animals would very soon
drain it.
Fuel.
Fodder.-
Nil.
Suvvlies. —No supplies are obtainable at 'Akrabiyah except
sometimes a few goats. There is a certain amount of grazing
for camels and a little fuel is procurable for a small torce.
2 ' AMUDIYAH .. 10i m. The road on leavin §
'Akrabiyah crosses
several sand drifts
before reaching the main road from Aden, and is therefore veiy
heavy but after H miles it improves steadily till it rcac ^ es
or Mihiar, 3^ miles, and from there on is very good gomg tili
one sets into the cultivation to the west of Zinjabar at mile /
from 'Akrabiyah. Here the road winds in and out amongst the
crops and is generally only sufficiently broad for a camel and his
load to pass. A guide should be obtained for this part. Atter
passing through this cultivation for 21 miles the road emerges on
L r ^pen Plfin in the centre of which is Zinjabar about a mile
distant. This plain is good land but is not under cultivation
this year. The general direction of the road is north-eas ; ex-
oect for the first U miles the whole road is suitable for all -
three arms but until past Majhar artillery would be confined to
the road as the surrounding country is too broken and h y
To the east of Majhar the ground is hard but brokeri ^P y
and shrubs. In the middle of the cultivation is the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Bana
"tht time of the year perfectly dry.
river is 400 yards broad but m the time of flood this would
^BmeTkL^ZinTablrtS halts 6 hour, but on the return
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east. Inhabitants about 500. Ha a i „ is the
west, and situated in the middle of a group of palm trees, « t
village of •Amudiyah, which is larger than
nlacc for a oamp is on the north-east side of tho village whe
there is plenty of open ground and within easy reach of two
wells.
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