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7. Upon a large rock beyond the spring, and towards Wady Feiran: [not
included]
8. Further down, upon a rock, being one of the clearest inscriptions
which I saw: [not included] On many stones were drawings of goats and
camels. This was once probably the main road to the top of Serbal, which
continued along its foot, and turned by Deir Sigillye round its eastern
side, thus passing the cleft and the road by which we had ascended, and
which nowhere bears traces of having ever been a regular and frequented
route.
After my departure in the morning for Mount Serbal, the messenger
dispatched by the Arabs assembled in Sheikh Szaleh, arrived at Wady
Feiran, and forbad the people from guiding me to the top of Serbal; the
news of this order had spread along the whole valley, so that on our
reaching the first habitations under the date-trees, where I intended to
rest for the night, all the Arabs