'Southern Arabia, by Theodore Bent, F.R.G.S., F.S.A., Author of 'The Ruined Cities of Mashonaland' 'The Sacred City of the Ethiopians' 'The Cyclades, Or Life Among the Insular Greeks' etc. and Mrs Theodore Bent' [‎228] (277/552)

228 DHOFAR AND THE GARA MOUNTAINS
We left England at the beginning of November 1894,
and at Aden, where we were obliged to tranship, we picked
up our camp furniture, which we had deposited there on
our return from Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Hadhramout.
Imam Sharif came on board to meet us at Karachi, and
we also received a letter inviting us to stay at Government
House, where we were most kindly entertained by Mrs.
Pottinger, in the absence of her brother, Mr. James, the
Commissioner in Scinde. This was very delightful to us, as
we had already stayed in Reynolds's Hotel when on our way
to Persia.
Matthaios had absolutely refused to come with us for
fear we should carry out our great wish of going to Bir
Borhut, and indeed the very name of 4 Aravia' was odious
to him. Of course, being in India, we had to take two men
in his place, and accordingly engaged two Goanese, half
Portugueseone Diego S. Anna Lobo, a little old man, as
butler, and the other, Domingo de Silva, as cook. The
former could speak English and Portuguese; the latter
neither, only Hindustani. We took them back to India
with us the following spring, keeping Lobo as our servant
during the time of our stay there.
We had a calm and pleasant voyage of three days to
Maskat with Captain Whitehead on the B.I.S.N. steamer
Chanda, arriving just in time to escape a violent storm,
which lasted for days, and in its commencement prevented
our landing at the usual place. We had to go round a little
promontory. There was also a good deal of rain, which
cooled the air considerably.
We were the guests of Colonel Hayes Sadler, in his
hospitable Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. , and he interested himself kindly in
our affairs, giving us all the help he could in our arrange
ments, as did also Dr. Jayaker, the Indian doctor.
We intended first of all to penetrate into the regions of the