el-maru

Updated: May 18, 2025

The guides had accidentally mentioned a "Jebel el-Maru," and I determined to visit it next morning. The night was warm and still. The radiation of heat from the huge rock-range explained the absence of cold, so remarkable during all this excursion hence the African traveller ever avoids camping near bare stones.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - The Land of Midian — Volume 2

Instead of being a regular, round-headed cone, like the Jebel el-Abyaz for instance, the summit was distinctly crateriform. The greater part of the day was spent in examining it, and the following are the results. This Jebel el-Maru showed, for the first time during the whole journey, signs of systematic and civilized work. In many parts the hill has become a mere shell.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - The Land of Midian — Volume 2

I expected a corresponding formation upon the opposite eastern versant: we found only a huge crest, a spine of black plutonic rock, intensely ugly and repulsive. As we rode back down the "Valley of the Perpendiculars," the aspect of the Jebel el-Maru was epatant to use another favourite camp-word.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - The Land of Midian — Volume 2