I remembered Buana and Egypt and its people, and I remember this one who is drenched in Boolaq. So, by God, my eye, seek help from the beginning of a staff that will return the heart that has increased and become heavy. Then we traveled with haste, without delay, until we reached the noon of the day. Is there a land called The land is singular. And a land where there is no companion except the digging and the fearful. It is said that this land was more prosperous than any other land, but what befell it befell a land, and its people were scattered, and no one passed through it, and it did not please anyone except a little, and it is a day's journey and a mile. We stayed there for two days and filled our waterskins. And we set off, and with true thirst, we entered. We spent five days in a mission leaping, and in the hand of Abu al-Yusr, there are good things that bring good news. First, I say, it is little, as if it does not exist. There is much that is suitable for drinking. And we were fed during that period with what we collected for the people from the dung of the wild ass. And to God belongs the time when relief is obtained. On the evening of the fifth day, we arrived at a place called Al-Shub, which is a place between dunes of sand, upon which the loneliness of the desert blows. We stayed there for two days. And we set off, and with the thirst of the beautiful woman, we entered. We crossed it quickly and with difficulty in the space of four days. On the morning of the fifth, we arrived at a place called Salba. In this place are the ruins of old buildings, and it is the width of a bridge also called by this name.