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R outs N o . 202— contd.
Forty minutes after starting again we had the tract of Has-
hus, with numerous water-lifts, on our right. On the left bank
opposite was Raqqah, a locality without a village.
At 1 hour 35 minutes Qaisariyin, a village of 100 Shi'ah
houses, was on the loft bank.
At 1 hour 49 minutes the tract of Has-hus ended, and that of
Suwaidiyah began, upon the right bank; while on the left was
the village of Hawaish, 300 houses of Shi'ah Arabs.
At 3 hours was the end of Suwaidiyah on the right bank.
At 3 hours 27 minutes we passed on the left bank Jadidah,
a village of 200 Shi'ah houses; and on the right bank a reach
called Malluh began.
At 4 hours 2 minutes a reach styled Yahudiyah began on the
left bank, Malluh still continuing on the right.
At 4 hours 27 minutes we tied up for the night in the Malluh
reach.
MALLUH to BAGHDAD .. Starting early we reach
ed the end of Malluh
(right bank) in 20, and
that of Yahudiyah (left bank) in 25 minutes.
At 35 minutes a tract called Babi began on the right bank.
At 55 minutes we passed Rashdiyah village on the left bank ;
it seemed to consist of a two-storeyed house and a few culti
vators' huts
At 1 hour 5 minutes the tract of BSbi ended and that of
Mashahidah began upon the right bank.
At 1 hour 23 minutes we passed Sawakin on the left bank,
consisting of 10 houses of Shi'ahs and 2 brick kilns.
About this time, not long after sunrise, the southerly wind,
which had fallen at sunset on the previous evening, began again.
A raft, having considerable surface and no means of propulsion,
is greatly retarded by contrary winds ; at bends it is driven on
shore ; and, when the wind is sufficiently strong, the current will
no longer carry it along even in midstream.
At 2 hours 3 minutes DawudTyah, a village of 15 houses of
Shi'ah Arabs, passed on the left bank.
At 2 hours 30 minutes the wind compelled us to tie up at
'Awaijah, a village of 30 houses of Mashahidah, opposite to
which there ie an enclosure on the left bank.