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And now nothing remained but to escape as quickly as possible from the ugly Wady Mismah; with its violent, dusty wester, or sea-breeze, and its sun-glare which, reflected and reverberated by the quartz, burned the grass and made the trees resemble standing timber. April 10th saw the last of our marches, a hurry back to the stable, a sauve qui peut.
Unfortunately the engineer had neglected this most important rock, and only a few ounces of it, instead of as many tons, were brought back for analysis. We rode down towards a granite island where the bed mouths into the broad Wady Mismah, a feeder of the Wady 'Argah.
The open Wady Mismah showed, to the east of our camp, the ruins of a large settlement which has extended right across the bed: as the guides seemed to ignore its existence, we named it the Kharabat Aba'l-Maru. Some of the buildings had been on a large scale, and one square measured twenty yards. Here the peculiarity was the careful mining of a granitic hillock on the southern bank.
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