'Southern Nejd: Journey to Kharj, Aflaj, Sulaiyyil, and Wadi Dawasir in 1918.' [‎39r] (82/100)

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' e succeeded by a series of unimportant streams draining down
" to Shaib Ghina, camping in one of which for the night, we
pursued our march the following morning across the broad
^ e Shaib Daraiy, to Shaib Ghulghul, both of these running down
to the Daiya.
rea ^ Up to this point out march since we left Ghail had been
™ practically due north over entirely waterless country. We now
however reached water at the single well of Warhiya in the
bed of the Ghulghul at a distance of about eighteen miles from
^ Ghail; the well is much frequented by Badawin from all the
■ e fy country round, this and a similar single well called Qalha some
miles down the same stream being the only watering places
3118 between Ghail and Baaija ; the water is good but the supply
c ' is liable to run out if large demands are made on it, as we found
on arriving just after a Qahtan encampment and its flocks had
or had their fill. A large party of Qubabina, who arrived after
tte us on their way to spend Ramdhan at Ghail, had to resign
WO themselves to getting no water till late in the evening or
ia even the following morning as it would take some time for
Jig the well to recover from our depredations sufficiently to supply
k their 150 camels and nearly that number of men, women, and
iec children.
re, Shaib Ghulghul is for all practical purposes the northern
ut boundary of the Aflaj hill tract, the actual watershed between
ier the Rajd streams and the Sahaba system lying a couple of miles
'el further north in some rough ground separating two small ravines
i called, respectively, Nadh Ghulghul and Nadh Baaija. To the
$ right now lay the Insalah downs, while to the left was the dreary
expanse of the broken plateau of Tuwaiq.
js On reaching the Nadh Baaija we entered upon the fourth
Is and most extensive section of Tuwaiq, namely the catchment area
] ! of the Sahaba, extending from this point northwards to an im-
j, mense distance certainly to the Haisiya-Aiyaina tract and
q possibly far beyond. This tract it will be convenient for the
jl purpose of detailed description to sub-divide into four further ,
subsections as follows, namely :—
^ (1) The catchment area of the Ajaimi.
f (2) The district of A1 Fara.
■ (3) Jebel Alaiya.
(4) Aridh.