 He took the "long road" stopping frequently, meeting people, visiting places, describing occupations and giving a demographic count of Jews in every town and country.One of the known towns that Benjamin of Tudela reported as having a Jewish community was Muscat  located in the area of Oman in the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula.In the mid-19th century, the British Lieutenant James Raymond Wellsted documented the Jews of Muscat in his memoirs "Travels in Arabia, vol.