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After the exciting scenes of the last three days, this stage was dull riding, and consequently, I fear, it will be dull reading as well as writing. A walk of ten minutes led down the rough line of the little water-course draining the Maru Rubayyigh to the Wady Rabigh.
They congratulated us upon reaching a part of their country absolutely unvisited by Europeans. The site of our discovery was the water-parting of the Wady Rubayyigh with the Wady Rabigh, both feeders of the Sirr; this to the north, that to the south.
The ruins, known as Umm el-Harab, "Mother of Desolation," are the usual basement-lines: they lie in the utterly waterless basin, our camping-ground, stretching west of Mara Rubayyigh, the big white reef. At Umm el-Harab we saw for the first time an open mine, scientifically worked by the men of old.
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