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Route No. 202— contd*
At 4 hours 9 minutes we arrive at the head of a right-bank
island called Jazirat-ad-Darawish. Here are several char ads
(water-lifts) in full swing: the cultivators are Sawakinah. On
the left bank of the river, opposite, is a camp of the Al Bu Daraz.
At 4 hours 30 minutes we are at the lower end of Darawish
Island, and at 4 hours 53 minutes at the middle of Tuthah,
another right-bank island.
At 5 hours 35 minutes we are passing through a reach called
Bi 'rurah, after which there is an island called Bahairiyah on the
Side towards the right bank.
At 6 hours 16 minutes comes the end of Bahairiyah Island,
and 8 minutes later Dalai'ah, a camp of Jibur Arabs on the left
bank.
At 7 hours 3 minutes, on the right bank, in a tract occupied
by Al Bu Handhal Arabs, is Safinah, a square enclosure where
the Turkish authorities receive and store agricultural rents paid
to them in kind.
At 7 hours 41 minutes, on the right bank, is Habbab, a walled
camp of 'Azzah or 'Obaid Arabs.
At 7 hours 59 minutes we pass 'Ausajah, a camp of 'Azzah
Arabs on the right bank; and 7 minutes further on we halt for
the night. m
'AUSAJAH to MALLUH In 40 minutes from
getting under way the next
morning we arrive at the
end of the reach called 'Ausajah.
At 1 hour 10 minutes there is a temporary cessation of the
water-lifts on the right bank.
At I hour 30 minutes we are at Qubbah Shawali which seems
to be the end, on the right bank, of the shingly zone of the Tigris.
At 1 hour 43 minutes the 'Adhaim stream flows into the Tigris
on its left bank.
At 2 hours 16 minutes we enter a reach called 'Aqab.
At 2 hours 27 minutes we enter the reach of Sufait, on which
there is a camp of Al Bu Haiyazah ('Obaid) Arabs. We are
informed that in this district each ordinary water lift of 2 pulleys
pay £T. 5 a year to the Turkish Government.
At 2 hours 56 minutes we are in the Ahmad-al-Faiyadh reach,
where there are 25 to 30 water lifts on the right bank. iSome-