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'Southern Nejd: Journey to Kharj, Aflaj, Sulaiyyil, and Wadi Dawasir in 1918.' [5r] (14/100)
The record is made up of 1 volume (46 folios). It was created in 1919. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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1
A TRIP TO SOUTHERN NEJD AND
WADI
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
DAWASIR.
Prefatory Note.— The first twenty-one pages only have
been revised in proof by the author. For the rest, editors and
printers have had to do their best alone with pencilled copy which
had been a good deal rubbed in transit. So far as possible no
change has been made by the editors in the author s words,
phrasing, or Arabic transliteration. The accompanying map is a
reduction of that supplied by the author, the Survey of Egypt
having redrawn his chart on a scale of 1:1,500,000, omitting
minor place-names in the interest of legibility.
After an interlude of two and a half months since my
departure from Jidda I returned to Basra on March 24, 1918,
with the idea of proceeding via Kuwait to rejoin Ibn Saud
wherever he might be. My plans were however changed at
the last moment by the arrival of messengers from Dhari ibn
Tawala of the Aslam Shammar, who was encamped at A1 Hafar
in the Batin, and I decided to resume my travels by way of the
Batin. Accordingly on March 28, I proceeded to Zubair and on
the following day accompanied by Dhari's messengers and a
scratch escort, provided by Sheikh Ibrahim, I launched out
into the interior. Five days' march down the Batin, now
resplendent with all the flowers of spring, brought me to Dhari's
camp just short of A1 Hafar, whence after a two days' rest I
set out again with Dhari himself and a large escort of sixty
Shammar for Shaib Shauki, where according to report 1 should
find Ibn Saud in his annual camp of exercise. Passing the
wells of A1 Hafar (about 145 miles south-west of Basra) we
proceeded a short way up the Batin and then launched out
southward into the Dibdiba. For the next three days we
pushed on over the vast bare desert plateau now under the
name of Dibdiba, now Juraiba, now Summan and now Hubaida,
each merging imperceptibly into the next and distinguished
from it by some slight difference of soil or vegetation, until on
the evening of the third day we crossed the Manshariha or
main road from Kuwait to Zilfi, and camped a couple of miles
south of it on the edge of the Dahana. The next day was spent
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Harry St John Bridger Philby's account of his journey in the southern regions of the Najd, published for the Arab Bureau by the Government Press in Cairo, 1919.
The journey was taken in May to June 1918 while the author was in Riyadh for the purpose of maintaining relations with Ibn Sa‘ud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥman bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], ruler of Najd, on behalf of the British Government. Travelling 640 miles from Riyadh to Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Dawasir [Wādī al-Dawāsir] and back along a different route, he reports any geographical, meteorological, agricultural, demographic, and historical information that he deems of use to the British government. Included are notes on the tribes and wells of the area.
Folio 46 is a foldout map of the route taken.
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- 1 volume (46 folios)
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Foliation: the sequence is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the front cover, on number 1, and ends on the inside of the back cover, on number 48.
Pagination: there is also a printed pagination sequence that begins on the first page of the account proper and continues through to the last page of the account.
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- 'Southern Nejd: Journey to Kharj, Aflaj, Sulaiyyil, and Wadi Dawasir in 1918.'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:47v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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