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Beyond these narrows the valley bends to the south-west and feeds the Wady Aznab, which falls into the sea south of the Damah. A little north of west rises profiled the great Sharr, no longer a ridge with a coping of four horns, but a tall and portly block, from whose summit spring heads and peaks of airy blue-pink.
The latter attaches to the higher Libn, whose triad of peaks, the central and highest built of three distinct castellations, flush and blush with a delicate pink-white cheek as it receives the hot caresses of the sun. We are now haunted by the Libn, which, like its big brother the Sharr, seems everywhere to accompany us.
Sulayman, the Bedawi, had killed a Wabar, whose sadly mutilated form appeared to be that of the Syrian hill coney: these men split the bullet into four; "pot" at the shortest distance, and, of course, blow to pieces any small game they may happen to hit. Early on March 16th we attacked the Sharr in a general direction from north to south, where the ascent looked easy enough.
It has two fine bays, facing the shore and admirably defended from all winds; the southern not a little resembles Sinafir-cove. The "top," or dwarf plateau, commands a fine view of the coast scenery; the "Pins" of the Sharr; the Mutadan Mountain, twin ridges of grey white granite, and, further south, the darker forms of Raydan and Ziglab.
Just then, behold, up came the Emir Hasan Sharr al-Tarik who, on his return from his journey, had found his wife stripped of her clothes and jewellery and heard from her all that had passed; whereupon quoth he, "The Master of Police shall answer me this" and repairing to him, said "Dost thou suffer old women to go round about the town and cozen folk of their goods?
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.
The ascent was comparatively mild, except where it became a sheet of smooth and slippery granite; but when he reached a clump of large junipers, his course was arrested by a bergschrund, which divides this block evidently a second outlier from the apex of the Sharr, the "Dome" and the "Parrot's Beak."
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