As they were loading the ship for their voyage to the promised land, Nephi notes that they had prepared "meat from the wilderness" (1 Nephi 18:6). Potter and Wellington note that Dhofar contains 20 species of wild mammal, of which seven appear to be found only there, and includes "the caracul, the leopard, the Arabian gazelle, and the ibex appear in small numbers and are vulnerable to hunting." The lakes in wadi Darbat, only eight miles from the harbor in Khor Rori, would have served as watering holes for the animals and an ideal place for Nephi to have hunted. [George Potter and Richard Wellington, Discovering the Lehi-Nephi Trail, Unpublished Manuscript, 2000, p. 192]