The desert of the Exodus : journeys on foot in the wilderness of the forty years' wanderings : undertaken in connexion with the ordnance survey of Sinai, and the Palestine exploration fund . d, began our route sketch, and camped im-mediately above the place in Wady Ghazaleh ^\herethe camel-track comes in, at the meeting of severalwiidies. The country after this point exhil)its arather ditierent formation fnjm the sandstone moun-tains and sandy ])lains through which we liad beenpassing for tlie last dav and a halt; the vallcvsare very distinctly marked, and the rocks at the 314 77/A SorrilEUS E
The desert of the Exodus : journeys on foot in the wilderness of the forty years' wanderings : undertaken in connexion with the ordnance survey of Sinai, and the Palestine exploration fund . d, began our route sketch, and camped im-mediately above the place in Wady Ghazaleh ^\herethe camel-track comes in, at the meeting of severalwiidies. The country after this point exhil)its arather ditierent formation fnjm the sandstone moun-tains and sandy ])lains through which we liad beenpassing for tlie last dav and a halt; the vallcvsare very distinctly marked, and the rocks at the 314 77/A SorrilEUS ElXiE OF THE Till. side consist of greenstone, with an overlying stra-tum of sandstone, v,]ii(]i lias heen denuded ofi inall save the higlier ridges and peaks. The sides ofWildy el Hudlierali itself consist of detached rocksand mountains, which give it the appearance ofbeing broken into numerous side wddies. The next morning, on leaving Ain Hudherah,we kept a north-easterly course, and crossing thewatershed of a fine broad wddy called Elthi, witha steep rise of more than 1000 feet, struck thegreat valley, Wady el Ain, at the foot of a loftypicturesque mountain called Jebel Arddeh. The. JEBKL route here bends round to the south-west followinguj) Wady el Ain. The name Aradeh is etymolo-gically the same as Haradeh, one of the unidentified THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF THE TIH. 315 stations of the Israelites (Num. xxxiii. 24). Here wemet for the first time with the Haiwdtt Arabs. Theyare, if anything, poorer than the Sinai Beclawin, andwanting in the intelligence and cheerful contentmentwhich distmguish the latter race. Indeed, withsome rare exceptions, the various tribes which weencountered after this were in a descending scale ofignorance and superstition, and their one prevailingidea was that we had come for no other purpose thanto stop their rain-supply. One old woman roundlyabused us for the late drought, and, pointing to herhalf-starved goats, asked us if we werent ashamed of
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