"ملف 61/11 IX (D 159) مسائل متنوعة خاصة بالحجاز ونجد" [و‎‎١‎٧] (٣٩١/٤٤)

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visited t he Amir Hand . Conversation consisted of banalities
about his visit to %glaid for the Coronation. Gleneagles. etc.
Before dinner the Finance Minister % S hld el Toubashi ca® to see
us.also we noticed the son of Ibn Rashid of Hail. His Ifc lesty
receives every night all the wireless reports from lender,
and Berlin, as well as Arabic brleasts from all q u arters . ^ '
ni^itly reeds about fifty pages of them. I had the impression
that real or polltlcal questlon was taboo> and ^
that not neing able to speak or understand the language a great
disadvantage #
At midnight or after when we returned to our sleeping tent
which Yassm had made comfortable with mattresses and pillows a
slight reviving drink was necessary after the long drive a- '
emotions of th e evening. The result was that we sat and talked
until 3 a.m. with the prospect of a start at dawn,
26th April , ^ Q-^Q,,
At 4-30 a.m. I woke up and the camp was still there and fee
beginning for the departure was being made. A t 5-15 a.m. I looked
out already dressed to find that L a dy Carlisle end myself were
practically the only people sitting there, surrounded only by the
desert strewn wld* the debris peculiar to an A r ab in omp. Luckily
in the hot dry air it was not noticeable to the nostrils.
Breakfasted wiih Khalid. noticed that the servant was a
Soudanese whom I recognized was one who was in the employment of
^ir -andrew Ryan our Mmister in Jedda when I was staying with him
three years befo^,. He asked after de Gaury. Tuseif Tassin
arrived with presents from the King of clothes and money for our
servants, an i.rab dress of purple and ora^e silk he^ily
embroidered in gold for Ldy Car lis*, an<a an Arab oostume ^
myself and a gold dagger. We were shortly Joined by ibrahim who
had come to say good-bye to Lady Carlisle who unfortunately was
still dressing. YUSSIF YA3SIN told me the King Would ^
ageln at Oarya and say good-bye if we would leave shortly after hir
We eventually leCt. al Hamaar at 7 a m ,
8-30 On t * rea0hed Jarya at about
n the way I changed into the Kafigv, filnp . ,,
oloek the t the Ki ng had
given/