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a population of about 400 souls, and there is a large burial ground there. There la
a small export trade carried on in ghi, hides, and gums, and the inhabitants possess many
small boats which are chiefly used for shark fishing during the fine season. A reef of
rocks, on which the sea breaks , extends li cables from the shore ; on the eastern side of
this reef there is a good landing when the south-westerly swell is not too heavy, though
at the same time the western side may be almost unapproachable. Bamqut is the eastern
limit of the coast-line of the Mahra tribe.— {Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Pilot, 1909.)
DAMT—
See Aden Protectorate.
DAN—
See Samail ( Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. ).
DAN—
One of two villages, the other being Nadan, in the Dhahirah district of the 'Om5n
Sultanate. They lie along the route between 'Ibri and Manah, via Kubarah and Saifam,
and are situated just to the eastward of the cleft in Jabal-al-Kor from which rises Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. -al-
'Ain, 8 or 9 miles east-south-east of Kubarah.
DANABAH (A d)—
Aden Protectorate.
DANAFA (J azirat) (or ROUND ISLAND)—
See Aden Protectorate.
DANAK ( Island)—
See Farasan (Islands and Bank); bank, western side.
danainat—
See Tigris.
dannan—
See Biyadh; Sabakhat Shalar district. Part VI.
dannan—
A hamlet in the Tihamah of Yemen and situated on the route between Mokha and
Zabid at a distance of 8 or 9 miles north-north-east of Moshij and 23 or 24 from Zabld.
Dannan (marked as Dennen on Mausell's map) is a place of no importance and consists of
a few poor habitations with an indifferent supply of water from wells.
DAQALAH—
One of the minor valleys descending from Jabal Aja {q.v.) on its west face.
daqdaqain—
See Samail ( Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. ).
DAQLAM—
See Al-Hasa District, under Taff (Jabal-at-).
DAQQ-AL-HAJJAJ—
The name of a left-bank tract on the Tigris {q.v.) between Kut-al-Amarah and Shaikh
Sa'ad.
DAQQIH (A d)—
A small sandy tract in the great Nafud desert. The centre of it lies about five-and-
twenty miles northward of Hail, the tract itself extending from the low sandstone ridge
of Jabal Qaisih on the north almost to the oasis of Jadhamiyah on the south. The
Daqqih desert, the surface of which is said to be more sandy than that of the immediately
environing Nafud, is traversed by the westernmost of the routes between Karbala and
Hail, namely that via Bir Hazil.