[ Résumé of Our Last Journey. ]
PART II. — The March Through Central and Eastern Midian. (Continued.)
Chapter XI. — The Unknown Lands South of the HismáRuins of Shuwák and Shaghab.
We have now left the region explored by Europeans; and our line to the south and the south-east will lie over ground wholly new. In front of us the land is no longer Arz Madyan: we are entering South Midian, which will extend to El-Hejáz. As the march might last longer than had been expected, I ordered fresh supplies from El-Muwaylah to meet us in the interior viâ Zibá. A very small boy acted dromedary-man; and on the next day he reached the fort, distant some thirty-five and a half direct geographical miles eastward with a trifling of northing.