Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 7, 2025
The water on the whole coast is bad, except at Wodjeh and at Dhoba. Wodjeh, which is usually reckoned at three days' journey northward from Djebel Hassany, is a castle on the Hadj route, about three miles inland.
Close by it is excellent spring water; and there are likewise copious wells of tolerable water in the vicinity of the small bay which serves as a harbour to the castle, and is therefore called Mersa el Wodjeh. Some Moggrebyn soldiers garrison the castle, which was said to be well stocked with provisions.
In time of peace, the caravan for Medina starts every fortnight; lately, from the want of camels, it departed only every month. There are often conveyances by land for Djidda and Mekka, and sometimes for Wodjeh and Moeyleh, the fortified stations of the Egyptian caravan on the Red Sea.
Several of them were married to Bedouin women, and carried on a trifling trade in provisions with the ships that pass. The neighbouring mountains of Wodjeh are inhabited by the Bedouin tribe of Bily. To the north of Wodjeh, and about two days' journey south of Moeyleh, lies the anchorage of Dhoba, renowned for its excellent wells.
The encampments of the tribe of Djeheyne extend as far as these mountains: to the north of it, as far as the station of the Hadj called El Wodjeh, or as it is also pronounced, El Wosh, are the dwelling-places of the Heteym Bedouins.
To El Moeyleh, where are fine pasture-grounds and good water: here the caravan halts for the night, and remains till the next evening. To Selma, a place yielding water. To Kalat Ezlam. To El Astabel, or Astabel Antar: the only water here is in a few holes dug in the sands of the valley, To Kalat el Wodjeh, where there is good water: they halt this night, and next evening proceed
Word Of The Day
Others Looking