35. (8) Wady Leimoun [Arabic], a village with a rivulet.
36 (9) Byr el Baghle [Arabic], wells.
37.(10) Mekke [Arabic].
The western road, or as it is likewise called, the great road [Arabic] is the more usual, but Djezzar always used to take the other. The first station from Medine on this route is:
28. (1) Biar Aly [Arabic], a village with wells and gardens.
29. (2) El Shohada [Arabic], a spot in the plain, without any water.
30. (3) Djedeyde [Arabic], and at a short distance before it the well called Byr Dzat el Aalem [Arabic]. Djedeyde is a considerable village on the sides of a rivulet. The Sheikh of the western route lives here [Arabic]. The year before the last Hadj caravan effected its passage, Abdullah Pasha of Damascus was attacked in a Wady near Djedeyde by the armed population of that village, who were Wahabi. They routed his army, and obliged him to pay forty thousand dollars for his passage. From Djedeyde the route leads through the villages of Esszafra [Arabic], and El Hamra [Arabic], to the second station, which is:
31. (4) The famous Beder [Arabic], where Mohammed laid the foundation of his power by his victory over his combined enemies. It contains upwards of five hundred houses, with a rivulet. The Egyptian pilgrim caravan generally meets here the Syrian.
32. (5) El Kaa [Arabic], a spot in the desert without any water. From thence a long march to
33. (6) El Akdyd [Arabic], which is twenty-eight hours distant from Beder.