mere gorge, constricted by two opposite rocks. On the left bank,
above this narrow, lies a group of Arab graves, which may have
been built upon older foundations. The right side here receives
the Wady Haraymal ("Little Peganum-plant"), the Haraimil of the
broad-speaking Bedawin. As we struck up its dull ascent, the
southern form of the Sharr-giant suddenly broke upon us, all
glorious in his morning robes of ethereal gauzy pink. The
foreshortened view, from the south as well as the north, shows a
compact prism-formed mass which has been compared with an
iceberg. The main peak, Abu Shenazir, here No. 4 from the north,
proudly bears a mural crown of granite towers, which it hides
from El-Muwaylah; and the southern end, a mere vanishing ridge at
this angle, but shown en face to the seaboard abreast of it,
breaks into three distinctly marked bluffs and heads.[EN#12]

A divide then led upwards and downwards to the Wady Aba Rikayy,
remarkable only for warm pools, and crystal-clear runners,
springing from the sole. The fringings of white show the presence
of salt; the shallows are covered with the greenest mosses, and
beetles chase one another over the depths where the waters sleep.
The lower course takes the name of Wady Kifafi, and discharges
into the sea north of the Wady Salma, with which it has
erroneously been united, as in Niebuhr's Selma wa Kafafa.
According to the Katib Chelebi, who, over two centuries ago, made
the "Kabr Shaykh el-Kifafi" the second pilgrim-station south of
El-Muwaylah, a certain Bedawi chief, El-Kifafi, was killed with a
spear, and his tomb became a place of pious visitation. It is
said still to exist between the Wadys Salma and Kifafi. A third
divide to the north led along the eastern flank of the Jebel Abu
Rish, which exposes its head to the sea; and, reaching the Col,