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The Sambuks might bring it, but the people on shore would be dependent upon what they can find. The Hajj-road, running some miles inland, is doubtless supplied with it. Even, however, were the necessary wanting, the pilgrim-ships, whilst taking refuge here, could easily transport it from the south.
We rode sharply forwards, impatient to see the classical ruins, leaving the caravan to follow us. At half-past seven we crossed a winding and broad-spreading track, the upper Hajj-road, by which the Egyptian Mahmal passes when returning from El-Medi'nah via the Wady Hamz.
On March 7th the caravan marched straight northwards, by the Hajj-road, along the shore to its camping-ground, an affair of two hours, while M. Marie and I set off for the turquoise mine. Furayj, who had never passed that way, engaged as guide one Sulaym el-Makrafi; and this old dromedary-rider's son had been sent on to bring into camp all the Fayruz he could find.
L. Karl Moser, of Trieste, examined them and found crystals of turquoise, or rather "johnite," as Dana has it, embedded in or spread upon the quartz. One specimen, moreover, contained silver. So much for the Ziba or southern turquoise-diggings. Our journey ended on March 8th with a dull ride along the Hajj-road northwards.
Unfortunately he had leased the ground from the Fawa'idah clan, when the Hamidah claim it: the result was a "faction fight" and nothing done. A few minutes' walking, over unpleasantly deep sand, placed us upon the Hajj-road.
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