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At a re-entering angle of the junction, a shallow pit was sunk; the sand became moist and red, and presently it was underlaid by a rubble of porphyritic trap. Nothing more! We then crossed the Wady Rabigh, another of the short broad valleys which distinguish this section of South Midian.
It had passed round by the Wady Rabigh, into and up the "Father of Glass;" in fact, it had described an easy semicircle; while we had ridden in a series of zigzags, over rough and difficult short cuts. A delay was also necessary for our mappers to connect this march with their itinerary of the central region.
After the exciting scenes of the last three days, this stage was dull riding, and consequently, I fear, it will be dull reading as well as writing. A walk of ten minutes led down the rough line of the little water-course draining the Maru Rubayyigh to the Wady Rabigh.
In the evening we ascended the porphyry hills to the north of the little camping-basin; and we found the heights striped by two large vertical bands of quartz. We had a fine bird's-eye view of the Wady Rabigh, and of our next day's march towards the Shafah Mountains: the former was white with quartz as if hail-strewn.
They congratulated us upon reaching a part of their country absolutely unvisited by Europeans. The site of our discovery was the water-parting of the Wady Rubayyigh with the Wady Rabigh, both feeders of the Sirr; this to the north, that to the south.
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