مجموعة مختارة من الوثائق القانونية والتاريخية والجغرافية التي قدمت لمحكمة التحكيم لتأييد وجهة النظر المصرية  
(تابع) المرفق رقم (12) صفحات 50،  51، 52، 53 من يوميات ويد في تقرير تعليم الحدود التركية المصرية 1906"
وزارة الخارجية المصرية، الكتاب الأبيض عن قضية طابا، القاهرة، 1989،  ص 201  - 206"

boundary, and again the next day at noon to A. 10. bis itself This traverse presented no difficulty the mountain Ras el Ain (A. 10. bis ) being visible all the way. The caravan had mean time moved to water  at Ain el Quderat, and we rejoined it at night, having in the afternoon  carried the line half way towards A. 9. bis. It might have been more  convenient if the caravan had gone to water at Ain Qadis, but we  were not sufficiently confident of being able to find our way there to  join it, if sunset overtook us at work, as it usually did.

          Leaving the camp at Ain el Quderat next morning the Commissioners  and survey party returned to the scene of the previous evening's  work, the caravan taking the easier route through the plains to  Mayein. We took two days' supplies with us, to last till a junction  was re-effected. The traverse was carried on over some of the most, difficult country which we had to encounter in the whole demarcation  viz: across the upper branches of the Wadi Ain Qadis. Emerging on  to the level high plateau of Gebel Kharuf, it was found that we had  carried the line too far to the east by about 500 metres, the mistake  being due largely to the difficult nature of the ground. If it had been  possible to make a preliminary traverse, the errors would have been  avoided, but on both sides there was the greatest anxiety to bring the  -work to a conclusion, without the loss of time involved in such preli  minary traverse.  A compromise was mad, the last two telegraph  posts being moved so as to bring them into the line again and this  was accepted by the Commissioners on both sides.  It may here he  recalled that the distance from A. 10. to A. 10. bis was somewhat less. accurately known than in other traverses and that the points A. 10. bis  A. 9. bis were not intervisible, the latter not being sighted till the  party arrived within 1 kilometre of it These facts taken with the   roughness of the ground made the demarcation a matter of extreme difficulty.

          Next morning the traverse was carried without trouble to A. 9. on  the south scrap of Gebel Kharuf a distance of only 5 kilometres on easy ground, after which began the task of joining up to Mayein.

          The point near Mayein to which the boundary runs, is defined  in rather a different way to others, in the text of the agreement  Previous beacons had been at astronomical points, but this one is  defined as a point possessing certain qualifications (see the text of the  ,agreement on page 3). It was plainly essential to strict demarcation  that I should go first to Mayein, select a point satisfying the said  conditions and determine its geographical position, after which it would  have been easy to connect it to A. 9. I put these matters before the

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