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Dr. Wallin’s Route in Northern Arabia.
character+} as those in Wadi Moosa, and a mountain hearing the
name of Gabal Al-Naka, still attest the abodes of the men
of Themood and ;the miraculous she-camel of Salih.* On the map
of Arabia by Berghaus, a valley close by Medina is marked with
the name of Wadi Al-Kura. The author of Awdah, when
stating the above-mentioned distance of 5 days’ journey between
Higr and Wadi Al-Kura, does not explain whether the situation
of that valley is by Al-Wegh, to the \V. of Iligr, or by Medina,
to the S. of it. In either case, he would be nearly right in the
distance, which, from Higr to Wegh in the one direction, or to
Medina in the other, is now reckoned at about 4 days’ journey.
The difference of 1 day may, I think, be attributed to the author’s
over estimating the length of the two roads—a sort of error into
which I find him liable to fall in most of his computations.
Although the name of Wadi Al-Kura seems to be unknown to
the present Bedooins, I cannot, after the inquiries I made,
hesitate to identify it with the present Wadi Negd (Wadi Nejd),
which extends, as before stated, along the southern side of the
Harra mountains, from the neighbourhood of al-Gaww (Jauu)
towards Wegh (Wejh) on one side, and towards the interior of
the desert, by a south-easterly course, on the other.
While I was living among the Beni Bely they had been almost
daily moving from place to place till they had again approached
the plain of al-Manka’, whence I first entered the nufood land of
al-Gaww (Jauu).
1848. On the 16th of April, I left my hospitable friends, accompanied
Apr. ig. ],y a party of 8 men, who, under the conduct of my guide, the
’Akid of the tribe, after, having taken me to Teima, intended to
proceed on a plundering expedition (ma’ira, pi. ma’air) (ma’i’rah,
pi. ma’air) against the Sherarat (Sherar.it) Bedooins, in the
neighbourhood of al-Gawf (Jauf). Our way lay over the dark, broken
ground of al-Iiarra, past several black looking peaks,f with
al-Manka’ to our left: after travelling 5 hours in an E. S. E.
direction, we reached a natural cistern in a hill, where we found
good rain-water; and this being the appointed rendezvous for other
adventurers who were expected to make up their mind to join the
expedition, when we left the tribe, wre made a halt for the night.
Apr. 17. On the 17th, we were awakened early by the arrival of new
volunteers, or, as they were called, partners, in the expedition.
* For an account of the mission of the prophet Salih to the people of Themood,
and the miracle of causing, at their request, the she-camel (N&ka) to issue from the
rock, for converting them to the faith of the only true God, see Isma’atl Ibn ’Aly
(apud Muracci), Koran, eh. vii. aya. 73, note. .Salih is supposed to have lived
between the’time of Hud and of Abraham, and by Bochart to have been the same
with Pcleg, Gen. xi. lli. Salali of Gen. xi. 12, was the grandfather of Peleg.
D Herbclot, however, considers Salil.i to lie the same with the last-mentioned
patriarch, Salali. See Sale, Prel. Disc., pp. 6, 7 ; and Koran, pp. 123, 124.—A.
t Dr. Wallin 6uys, “ of volcanic appearance;” but see note at p. 33, and also
text, p. 41.—A.
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