On the sixth day, passing over a stony desert, they reached Benioleed, an Arab town, with about two thousand inhabitants.
It consists of several straggling mud villages, on the sides of a fertile ravine, several miles in length, and bounded by rocks of difficult access.

The centre is laid out in gardens, planted with date and olive trees, and producing also corn, vegetables, and pulse.
The valley is subject to inundation during the winter rains, but in summer requires to be watered with great labour, by means of wells of extraordinary depth.

It is inhabited by the Orfella tribe, subsisting chiefly by agriculture, and the rearing of cattle, aided only in a trifling degree by a manufacture of nitre; they are accounted hardy and industrious, but at the same time dishonest and cruel.

Benioleed castle stands in latitude 31=B0 45' 38" N., longitude 14=B0 12' 10" E.
The houses are built of rough stones, on each side of the Wady, none are above eight feet in height, receiving their light only through the doors, and their appearance is that of a heap of ruins.

The wells are from 100 to 200 feet in depth, the water excellent.