"S'A.SE3B® ® or IP@ 3E .T T o f B E H IM E S A k ,I
■ The ;%f| plactis Baj gtjitioiiB i/l J^^liayr-
Sliayb and'Bl Moeyleh; ■Jietwyfti. which, in the w»4i" »i the
rocky ground, is some pasture. Tbc first station a.« some
trees, .chiefly date plantations, wrtb ■ wells oi pweot
water, and at the other there is likewiw* good water and
pasture ground. South-eastward is the woberaag station oi
Selma, and farther, beyond K&Tat Ezlatn, that. oi El. Astabel,
or Astabel Autar, where the only wafer is supplied frotn a
few holes in the sands of the valley. One station onward
is KaTat-ei-W«§*b «r Wedge, where there is good water, and
about six miira im»twii*d of the castle is the small to wn, ot the
same JUfflwe, with an excellent harbour, easy oi 'access, and
abundantly supplied by the Billec and llsutemey tribes oi
Bedawin,1 The succeeding station south-eastward is Akra,
where only offensive water is ion .ml after a long inarch; ¡tiW the
next is El ttoura, or Dar-el-Ashreyn, which th e twentieth
from Cairo; it has indifferent water, which is a strong ape-
riiWi,* 4ftMf widi, although containing many trees,
and' the soMi!* isftfltsd Igfpdh; s i w-te/L the id-lgr'less maKa * ki*M.l
o f tootfa-hrnsl!. AbWfid f§)i MIM* oi the
latter lliip il; » a wilkrt te.'fe « .ntuatei! along
ihd'diP^biMlt <&&# df * deep hay,!. fewming ® #j»ciou* W w st,
whose asivkHyswftjft ** pofcae*»« dp mMm at the entranee,
and it is up 4»»p tfesl, c«»» a»«- ■'!<« ^¡r ■*?«■* . 1 be
town i s - p p i f t b ’fyt: *¡<1 <f#dt'm9f*Qg
i t from IHkp. b a y ; tiw . thigiy nrex*«.«» » pjpssperfj; tiu n b o o , am*
the oa»d4tar Kl Kart both are enclosed by a. wall and tpwers,
comprising an area of almost double th e space occupied by the
houses,4 and near the latter are some plantations of mangroves.
Yamboo is completely an A rab town, and th e houses are worse
built than those in any o th e r in th e Hijas; it may, however,
be considered as the port of Medina, - one-third of the way
towards which-is the fertile valley of Y a k h e i . , or
Kari Yamboo, contain in g the country--*; rn
inhabitants of the sea-port.
1 Survey by Captain Elwon and Lieutenant Pin; .".■ ■ li, of the India» Ub»y,
• fctekhardbs Travels in Arabia, Vol. II., p. oiv;;.
* Ipid., p. 329. ' * Ibid., p. 328-