[Un-numbered file] 'Diary of Colonel Hamilton's Visit to Nejd 1918' [‎44r] (87/206)

was not more than lOijr. I jud t ^e our u hamalat t! 8
or baggage camels, do not more than to Pf
nil.es an hour. They go faster in the early morn
ing, no doubt,but in the afternoon the pace be
comes a crawl. Today we seemed to be going more
wesi, than usual our general direction being abou
040 **. "uch colder in the early morning but grew
pretty hot as day wore on. strong N.W. wind.
When we first saw the Shammar tents,2 Sham-
naris appeared riding from them; they turned out
to be men who had hitherto been accompanying us,
but who had sl ipped away in the dark to visit
their tents and no doubt*give information about
us. kor,about hours later, we heard shots in
our rear and shortly afterwards,Athar Barazi and
a relative galloped up. They were a nice pair
and '•'•ere riding beautiful ponies, a grey and a
chestnut about 14.2 hands. I made a remark about
these animals afterwards to Bahainara, our SH.OTAJ
hafeek and he told me that Ibn Rashid had got
their dam,a famous mare and was keeping here at
his stud in Hail.
When about 7 hours of the wells of Al-Gara'a
( ^>>1) we descended into a valley,dropping
dowzi somewhat steeply lor the lirsu t mile.
Thenceforward ve move along stony valleys with
sandstone bluffs on either hand about 180 to
200 ft. the valleys being about £ to i: mile bro?W
Sparse shrub tufts of grass. Borne hares were
seen ana chased. Ali al Bhowaihi snot one J-un-
ni ng
his rifle and presented it to me
hist: 44 hours
mil es
At dawn.
T ern: 25 v , 60
o
over v-e
17th . Owing to the broken country we are moving
over v-e could not start till Just bej.oie the
60 : Bar;2180
first flush of dawn
e reached
hed Bara 1 a,two famous old veils,at