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was told would continue to flow for a short time, and then water 

 always be found in pools. The bottom is covered with loose 

 pebbles, and its width about 100 yards. I saw no signs of 

 cultivation or inhabitants near it, but a few miles higher up, some 

 Noomreea families with their flocks were located. A belt of 

 tamarisk jungle extends for a few hundred yards on each side 

 of the river ; four miles beyond it, the road enters a pass in 

 the Pub mountains, called "Guncloba" by Mahomedans, and the 

 " Ungeekhera Bherum Suk," by Hindoos. It is stony, of trifling 

 ascent, and the descent equally gentle to a tract full of ravines, 

 extending from the Mor range of mountains which branch off 

 from the Pub towards Beila and the sand hills on the sea 

 shore. A few years ago this Suk was occupied by a party of 

 Noomreeas who plundered the pilgrims, and eventually stopped 

 all communication, until the Yam of Beila sent troops and 

 dispersed them. Some Mahomedan tombs not far from it were 

 pointed out has having been raised to those who had fallen in 

 battle. To the left of the road, and a hundred yards distant 

 from it, is the Bhowanee well, only three feet in diameter and 

 nearly forty deep. It is said never to be dry, yet travellers 

 alone use it. The face of the country is here sprinkled with 

 patches of milk bush, and low shrubs, which continue to the 

 Boareed Suk, where the road leaves the high ground for the 

 beach. A few miles before reaching it, the bed of the Bohur 

 river is crossed. It appears merely one of the larger ravines, 

 and the route runs a short distance down its bed to avoid 

 an abrupt ascent on its right bank. The Boareed Suk pre- 

 sents a most singular appearance, and is formed by one hill 

 having been detached by some convulsion of nature from 

 the range, which is here about two hundred feet in per- 

 pendicular height. The path leads along the edge of a 

 deep ravine, where the rush of the stream has cut a channel 

 as even as if excavated by art, and then winding round the 

 back of the hill, slopes to the shore. The descent is gentle, 

 and laden camels pass without difficulty. The sea at this 

 spot is not far distant, but further on the shore gradually 

 widens, until it leaves an extensive flat between it and the 

 sand hills, in some parts nearly a mile in breadth, covered 



