Sun 6. [6 May 1900] Off at 7.30 leaving the mules and Ali to go straight to Busan. H, N ed D and I rode round the foot of Kuleib through pleasant pastures and then round Tell el Jeineh from which the Turks have made a watercourse to bring the water of the spring to Suweidah [As Suwayda']. Dull country, very stony, lots of grass and a few Arabs with camels. Got to Salah at 11.30. Wide stretching ruins and I think 2 churches. Very solid building. A good spring and some fields with willows in them by which I lunched, cold and windy. A young handsome Sheikh came to bid me welcome. He went straight from here to Busan. We took a more W road and went to Mushennef crossing the mules on the way. Cold and windy, a dull plateau and when it broke one cd not see the desert because it was too misty. Mushennef was worth seeing however. The Temple lovely and all the building very massive. A second tank below the temple tank. Sheikh Ahmed gave me a meal and showed me an idol! The houses seem all to be built with basements. He said there was a sort of underground town. I also saw a troglodyte cave on the S of the town. Left at 4 and in soon after 5. Cold and tired so I put off sightseeing.