'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' [‎415] (496/552)

AMONG THE FADHLI
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The Sultan Salem bin Saleh's old abandoned castle had
some nice decoration about it. They left it because there
were so many jinni {i.e. ghosts) in it. Our informant had
not seen them, but only heard of them.
March the 12th my husband went up what he thought
was the highest mountain of the Goddam range, Minzoko,
just behind Naab, and made it 2,000 feet, but considered
when he got to the top that its neighbour Haidenaab was 300
or 400 feet higher. The Tarik Minzoko goes between them.
The sultan sent to our camp some bowls of food, soup,
and a fowl cut up and cooked in gravy, very rich with oil
and onions. It would have been good but for the stuffy,
bitter taste of myrrh, which they like so much to put in
their food. He also sent us red cakes of millet bread.
A poet of Naab made a merghazi on us during our stay,
about our treatment by the Yafei sultan: how he had
demanded money of us and how he had bidden us return to
Aden. This was thought so excellent by everybody that my
husband was forced to take a copy of it from dictation and
Sultan Salem took a copy back to Shukra.
Our party was now increased by another 4 prince/ Sultan
Haidar, son of the sultan of Naab, a person delightful to
contemplate. He was got up in Bedou style; his hair,
fluffy and long, was tied back by a fillet and stuck out in a
bush behind. He had a curious countenance and very weak
eyes. He was wrapped in a couple of large blue cotton
cloths with very long fringes, half a yard at least. The
cotton is plastered with indigo, even beyond the dye, and
when calendered, as the clothes are when new, gleam purple
and red. The richer you are the bluer you are, and Sultan
Haidar was very blue indeed. The curious thing about
these blue people is that, as the prominent parts of the face
and body are the darkest, there is an odd inside-out effect.
While in Naab we had our usual number of patients,