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Fri. March 19. [19 March 1909] We left at 6.30 with Fawas on a camel
and his nephew on another. At 8 we got to 'Ain Za'zu' where there are
several sulphur springs. One is good to drink and we filled our
girbehs at it. There is a little cultivation and 'aslub here. This took us
till 8.30. At 9.15 Fawas said 'Ain el Arnab was about an hour to the N.
There is another spring called Hajiyyah 20 min. S of Za'zu'. When we
got up the other side of the shallow valley we saw far away the Jebel
Muzahir on which Khubbaz [Marqab al Khubbaz] stands. We reached
there at 12.25. They are only about 50 ft high, at least this is the height
of the first platform of them. We got to them at the mouth of a Wady
which is the valley on which Khubbaz stands. The head of it is a
couple of hundred yards above the Kasr and I think water must come
out from under the rocks here when there is rain. We got to Khubbaz
at 1. It is I think of the date of Ctesiphon and the other Sassanian
buildings. It has the same characteristic set forward of arches and
vaults. I worked at it till 5. We camped. The Wady is only about 5
yards from the castle wall.