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'Southern Nejd: Journey to Kharj, Aflaj, Sulaiyyil, and Wadi Dawasir in 1918.' [35v] (75/100)
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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— 62 —
Badia, Fuhail containing 200 and the other section 150 in
habitants ; between them lies a considerable but scattered group
of ruined qasrs along the left bank of the torrent.
Between Haddar and the semicircular escarpment two lower
ridges called Shab and Farda intervene, the former ending in a
prominent headland known as Khashm 8hab while the latter
comprises two fantastic weathern-worn crags connected by a
low saddle. Between these ridges the two depressions of Dahla
and Shaib Nisaq run down from the plateau towards the Hasraj,
while between the Farda ridge and the escarpment behind it
runs a ravine called Shaib Turaifa rising in some rough hillocks
connecting the ridge and escarpment and running down to join
the Hasraj in the neighbourhood of the Haddar gorge. From
the top of the escarpment extends a wide triangular tableland
separating the Haddar area from that of Hamar with its apex
at the headland marking the extremity of the semicircular
escarpment; over this plateau lies a short cut between the two
oases practicable only for foot passengers and lightly loaded
dhaluls owing to the steep ascent and descent on either side.
The course actually taken by us on the day after our arrival
at Haddar lay nearly due north diagonally across the Dahla
Wisaq and Turaifa close under Khashm Shab and the more
northerly of the Farda crags and then over the rough hillock tract
already mentioned, which spreads over practically the whole
area between the escarpment and the western rim of Tuwaiq,
along the semicircular escarpment to its headland extremity
called Khashm Khartam, fourteen miles from Haddar. From
this point 3,350 feet above sea-level with the gaunt headland
towering another 300 feet or so above the road we had a magni
ficent view of the country westward of Tuwaiq. A narrow
ledge, over which the road runs down to the valley of Hamar on
the other side, connects the headland with a confused mass of
hilly ground extending only two or three miles to the western
rim of Tuwaiq beyond which lies the vast sand expanse of Nafudh
Dahi running north-east to south-west more or less parallel
to Tuwaiq behind a narrow strip of plain. Beyond it again
lay the mountains of Nejd proper—Hadhb Dawasir far away
to the south-west, the bold mountain mass of Hasat Qahtan,
also seen on my journey to Taif, the low barrier of the Ardh
range to the west and a large mountain mass called Samakh to
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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.'
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- 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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