186 A1r. HOLROS D'S Journey to J{ordoften.

[1837 hills of granite on our right to the N. of the roa(l, and alvout 1 mile from it. One is of a conical form, higher and more pointetl than the rest, and is calletl Nasbel el I4osan; and this hill, our guide informed us, is reckone(l by the Arabs to be lla]fwaybetween the Nile anal the Wells of Shimciil: it snay roach 800 feet above the r)lain. The surface of the desert from KorrolJl is generally sand; but after leaving Korrobi we crossed a vein of red granite. Jebel Nasbel el FlosAl;, as w-ell as the hills around it, is of grey granite; and in many laces reins of the same rocli appear through the sandy surface. Half an hour beaon(l Jcbel Nasbel el Hosan I rested until the afternoon; when laroceeding for 3 hours and !2() minutes farther, we halted in a portion of thc desert, where, on our left (1 mile south of the road), is a small granite hill named Jebel Nastel el AIelh. June 28. SVe travelle(l 7 hours to-day, and resteel at the foot of a hill on our left, called Jebel el Medayet, where we foun(l a solitary Bedowin tent. From its inhabitants we procured some water, +shich they had brought this morning from Bir Shimail; and a great luxury it as, for our own was putri(l in the highest degree, and I was suXering from a seserc relapse of dysentery, and my thirst was insatiable.

Ju7te 9.-We moved on again at 6 A.M., and in 1- llour arlive(l at a steep ascent of 25 feet, which having ascended, we passe(l over a plain strewed witll loroken stones, very much reseml)ling in appearance fragments of lava. After passing over this small plain we wound round the S. sicle of Jebel es-Safrah, the llill being on our right, and then arrived at a spot surroun(le(l by hills, where is situate(l Bir Shimail. The water of these wel]s is good, free from saline taste, and possessing only a slight earthy flavour. Between Berber and these wells I noticed many gazelles and large cove-s of rock-pigeons. The latter al)ound also in the immediate neighbourhood vf the wells. OurJourney to-day 3 hours. As I was still suffiering severely from dysentery, I determined to stay a couple of days at these wells. Thermometer J00?. Juty 1.-At i past 4 P.M. I left the wells of Shimail, and in 50 minutes we passed on our right hat I at first suposed to be an ancient ruined village; but upon inquiry the guide illformed me that it was a cemetery of the ManasirF Arabs. IJpon the slsot where each body was depositecl a stone wall was built, in form resembling the gable end of a house. Each wall was about 5 feet high in the centre, and 7 feet in length, anel corlstructed of sInall stones, with some neatness, a.nd not ulllike the way in which the stone walls are built as ferlces to the fielels in many parts of Yorkshire. This cemetery is called E1 'Arfall.

* Plllral of Mallstirs