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Updated: May 9, 2025
Leaving the Mahattat el-Ghal, he rode up its watercourse, and then turned southwards into the long Wady Umm Jirmah. It is a rounded eminence of no great height, showing many signs of work, especially three or four cuttings some twenty metres deep. A hillock to the north-west supplied the scoria before mentioned.
After building a stone-man on the finial of the Jebel el-Ghal, and a short rest in the north-western Wady, we remounted and struck seawards. Some ugly divides led us, after half an hour, to a broad Fiumara, well grown with palm-bush, the veritable Wady el-Ghal.
A subsequent visit to Wady Umm Jirmah found many furnaces surrounded by well-worked scoriae; of these, specimens were secured. After another half-hour, we dismounted at the watershed of the Wady el-Ghal, where the old guide lost no time in losing his head.
Upon our first Expedition, we had noticed a splendid specimen, set in a Bedawi matchlock; and the people of El-'Akabah praised highly the produce of the Jebel el-Ghal. Lastly, I happened to have heard that an Arab lately brought to Ziba a turquoise which sold there for L3. Evidently the mine, like the gold-sands before alluded to, would be carefully hidden from us.
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