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But Herod and all his people were greatly disturbed at their sudden coming, for their company and beasts of burden were of so great a number that the city might not receive them, but for the most part they lay without the gates all about, whereof Isaias prophesied: "The strength of folk cometh to thee that is to say, to the City of Jerusalem great plenty of camels shall do thee service, and dromedaries of Madyan and Effa shall come to thee.
We have now left the region explored by Europeans; and our line to the south and the south-east will lie over ground wholly new. In front of us the land is no longer Arz Madyan: we are entering South Midian, which will extend to El-Hejaz. As the march might last longer than had been expected, I ordered fresh supplies from El-Muwaylah to meet us in the interior via Ziba.
Clarke, represented L147 6s. 6d., not including the L40 of which we were plundered by the bandit Ma'azah. The ascent of the Sharr also cost L40, making a grand total of L187 6s. 6d. The march to the Hisma gave us a fair idea of the three main formations of Madyan, which lie parallel and east of one another: 1.
But we were stopped upon the very threshold of the Hisma by the Ma'azah, a tribe of brigands which must be subjected to discipline before the province of Madyan can be restored to its former status. This northern portion had been visited by Dr. Wallin; the other two-thirds of the march lay, I believe, over untrodden ground.
Further south we have noted how this tall eastern bulwark of the great Wady el-'Arabah bifurcates; forming the Shafah chain to the east, and westward of it, in Madyan Proper, the Jibal el-Tihamah, of which the Sharr is perhaps the culmination.
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