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 . 5^. CHAPTER III. BADIET ET TIH. Arrival at Xakhl; reception by the Governor; bargaining with theTeyahah; signing the contract. Wc start for the scene of ourexplorations. Our escort. Wady el Aggab; more stone el Arish. Wady Fahdi. Arab battle-field. A Bedawiballad. Contellet Garaiyeh; remains of an ancient fort. Ascentof Jebel Araif AVady ^la in. Wldy Lussan; ancient road andremains; Lussan ide
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 . 5^. CHAPTER III. BADIET ET TIH. Arrival at Xakhl; reception by the Governor; bargaining with theTeyahah; signing the contract. Wc start for the scene of ourexplorations. Our escort. Wady el Aggab; more stone el Arish. Wady Fahdi. Arab battle-field. A Bedawiballad. Contellet Garaiyeh; remains of an ancient fort. Ascentof Jebel Araif AVady ^la in. Wldy Lussan; ancient road andremains; Lussan identical with the Roman station of Lysa. We arrived at Nakhl, accompanied by the Te-ydhah family and some goats, perhaps as disrepu-table a caravan as ever entered the place. Nakldis a wretched square fort in the midst of a glaringdesert plain, the picture being backed up with somerather pretty limestone mountains. Here a fewmiserable soldiers are maintained by the EgyptianGovernment, for the protection of the caravan ofPilgrims which annually passes by tliat road onthe way to Mecca. We were received by tlie cap-tain of the guard, a dark noseless Arab, and pre-sently the Eflendi liiniself,
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