In ʿAydhab, Ibn Jubayr strongly criticize Aydhab people (occupied by the Beja), for they load ships with pilgrims with more than the ships can accommodate, incurious to what the sea does to them, out of hope for wages. They say that if they have an accident, they will lose just the slabs, and the pilgrims will lose their souls. Therefore, pilgrims are advised to stay away from the road of Egypt because of these abuses and to go the way of Syria and Iraq instead.