mochoura

Updated: May 8, 2025

For some days I had cold shudders lest this Pass, thus left unvisited, might be the Zul-Marwah, the classical "Mochoura," one of the objects of our Expedition. The alarm proved, however, as will be seen, false. As Leake well knew, the latter is "a name which is often indiscriminately applied by the Arabs to ancient ruins." They may mean a handful of miles.

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

The immediate objective of this, our last march, was the Bada plain, of which we first heard at Shaghab. I purposed subsequently to collect specimens of a traditional coal-mine, to which his Highness the Viceroy had attached the highest importance. Then we would march upon the Mochoura of the ancients, the mediaeval El-Marwah or Zu Marwah, the modern Marwat-cum-Aba'l-Maru.

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