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Updated: June 13, 2025
We had left the Sharm Yaharr on March 21st, and returned to it on April 13th; a total of twenty-four days. The length is represented by 170 miles in round numbers: as usual, this does not include the various offsets and the by-paths explored by the members; nor do the voyages to El-Wijh and El-Haura, going and coming, figure in the line of route.
The hydrographers have given enlarged plans of Yaharr and Jibbah, ports close to each other; while they have ignored the far more deserving Sharm Dumayghah.
The latter ends in an isolated peak, the Jebel Gharghur, which, on our return, was mistaken for the sulphur-hill of Jibbah. Presently we renewed acquaintance with the Wady el-Bayza, whose lower course we had crossed south of Sharm Yaharr: here it is a long and broad, white and tree-dotted expanse, glaring withal, and subtending all this section of the Sharr's sea-facing base.
The log showed a total of 102 miles between the Sharms Yaharr and El-Wijh, or 107 from the latter to El-Muwaylah. "El-Wijh," meaning the face, a word which the Egyptian Fellah perverts to "Wish," lies in north lat. 26 14'. It is the northernmost of the townlets on the West Arabian shore, which gain importance as you go south; e.g., Yamba', Jeddah, Mocha, and Aden.
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