'File 10/3 IV Qatar Oil Concession' [‎179r] (394/534)

poxnt laiid or sea* ur ;'c?K-ral course
was| as before| outh-aouth-oast. »e paaped
a succeanion of ba^/s varied by a anall inl.- nd
, ssa tit.h a narrow which vhfiad saiu vas
I iianjar# .\ftt*r 'tho "bays ^ave wa^
to a str^teh ox' straigh't coast f anu o-ir ovenini"
anchora 'o was exposed to the north wind# fa^ro
was only four feet of water half a : die from '
UiQ jho-ro f and as our barhalg ato four foot- >
as Ahsmii put it- ha could sail no naaror#
van the rowin >borxt stuck 200 /area oat in a
foot of miUir*
\priX 3rd ,
n >\prlX 3 the north wine had drop-^d
slightly, 'bat the boat was at ill rolling |
and I waa rrlad. to get ashore. There was still
enou ;h cloud to set me wonuerin,-; what chance
the -e would b& of getting sua observations at
• lalvm, r/hich was estimated to be at thro©
hours* mrch from our cnrp 9 > n passing tha
first hoaclland uhamad Alalia,U pointer to 90>.^
blurrrd objects on the horizon -./hich ho said
were the palM trees of „>alwa» ?o our westward
■.asre nurr^roue hills rr.arres or "■boat 300
feet* to which tesad gave the 'enc^ral mxrm of
Jabal .^hul f which was confime*:! by 'the canel
party. X had adapted the rule of accept in;:
only naies on which both parties haf agreed.
::<Qtwmn the hiila and the sea was a plain two
or three miles wide, through tan mirklle of
which ran the Haaa» c atar caravan route. e
car^ in si tit of twenty carr.ols adyancin r along
this lino in the direction of -lUfuf. The
party was friendly| enured in trade with the
Has a. -m stopped beside a smll clu* p of wild
date-palms, the onlr one on zh- western shores
of the bay, in fact the only landmark. 1
took bearing -ith thi: cofnj>a88 on sev? ral
clu-rpa of palijis on the lantern shore across
tlie Wa, now narrowine* to a sharp an^'l®
to our south.
.Chore was no *911 near the paliasi? but a
Hyaena*s earth was established in the bushes
ana ver recent footeirks inoic \te^ his presence
x& the souther apex of tha bay was one o: aie ^
possible estuaries of the -adi .;ahha, I "parti
cularly examined it in passing ''or. fresl'i-water
sheila, fossils| or any alluvial fom ; .tions f
but found only coral and narina shells. 'he
plain stretchiH' to the southward me^ts rail res
of hills and valley© at a distance of four
miles, ma hm the a^po.araacc an-a r;one'ral
formation of m estuary# ^ turn in.; nor thwart
and eastward vm passed .from t?ie western to the
eastern shore by ateppiru; over the taper in;: sea,
hare onl/ a yard wids# ■■•e straight tor
the first group of a alms on th- eaet coast,
300 yards fron the eoas buahy P&l-^ about
twelve feet hiifa, afoich 11 :ht accunulet-Ki
round them. • nly a few 'ret away XVon the re- t
and j -rrow to sharps ly trees of thirty feet in
height, etiora was no indie tion that even
t he; • ..