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"

Commissioners, but they decided they would only establish one point  between A. 9. and the place in question, and that the time necessary  for such preliminaries could not be spared. I was obliged therefore to  make as good a selection as I could with the help of the map and my  knowledge of die topography. The search for a suitable point gave  us the hardest day's work of the whole expedition. The country  -between Wadi Lussan and Mayein is deeply intersected with a compli  cated system of wadis, and we several times appeared to have lost our  way completely before we arrived at a point from which we could see  to the north A. 9. and to the south a hill overhanging the hollow basin  of Mayein and appearing to satisfy the necessary conditions. Having  set up a beacon here, a long detour via Wadi Makhsus had to be made  and across parallel wadis before we arrived at the hill in question just  at sunset This hill fortunately satisfied the necessary conditions, so  we set a telegraph post on it and rode into camp at Mayein. The task  immediately before us was however a simple one from a surveyor's point  or view, vie, to set up one telegraph post in the line joining our last  point to A. 8. and to set up one more at A. 8 itself on the high summit  of Gebel Semawi. The line in question is a short one. 1 therefore in  the morning sent up a work party with a telegraph pole to await me at  the top of Semawi, while I located the position of the intervening point  and marked it by a flag. I then sent a second party in the afternoon to  set up a telegraph pole where I had set up a flag and accompanied by, Mohammed Fahmy Bey the indefatigable second Turkish Commissioner  we climbed Gebel Semawi. There I pointed out to him the cairn which  we had built on occupying Semawi as an astronomical station and  the telegraph post was set up. I also showed him by the theodulite  that the intermediate post in the basin of Mayein was duly in line with  us and the termination of the previous day's work All was thus  ready for beginning the great traverse southwards from Mayein. I was. particularly anxious to settle the beaconing of A. s. before this began  as otherwise much time would have been lost and the expedition  would probably have had to return into Mayein instead of pushing  forward as it was enabled to do. I must express my thanks to Fahmy Bey  for it was a sine qua non that a Turkish Commissioner should be present, and he forewent a well-earned rest to carry the matter through .

From Mayein to the Mufraq el Aqaba the demarcation was a simple matter, but the journey was rendered difficult by the absence of water  From this cause and also from the desirability of bringing the whole  business to a conclusion, movements were exceedingly rapid, and  70 kilometres of boundary were laid out in two days, while the whole distance to Thamelet near the Mufraq was settled in less than three

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