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Akabet el benat, the principal rock is micaceous schist and chlorite, and farther down, towards the Wady Attyre, fine porphyry rocks are met with.

Travels in Nubia 2004
Attyre, opposite the Akabet el benat, on the eastern side.

Travels in Nubia 2004
This is done at present, and probably has been for many centuries, at the _Jis'r benat

Byeways in Palestine James Finn
Here the Arabs who serve as guides through these mountains have devised a singular mode of extorting small presents from the traveller: they alight at certain spots in the Akabet el benat, which they call (قبضه) or (مقبضه), and beg a present; if it is refused, they collect a heap of sand, and mould it into the form of a diminutive tomb, and then placing a stone at each of its extremities, they apprize the traveller that his tomb is made; meaning, that henceforward, there will be no security for him, in this rocky wilderness.

Travels in Nubia 2004
In two hours and a half we came to a plain on the top of the mountain, called Akabet el benat (عقبة

Travels in Nubia 2004
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