[Un-numbered file] 'Diary of Colonel Hamilton's Visit to Nejd 1918' [‎58r] (115/206)

He enquired after news of the dear Government
(the British) and I was able to tell him that on
the day of my arrival at Baghdad ( 30th September)
we had gained a nice victory over the Turks at
Ramadi, taking 3,000 odd prisoners and 12 guns,
I told him how the Turks wer caught and obliged
to surrender, the Commander being one Ahmad Beg,
He told me that all was peace at present on these
borders. He gave me a letter from his father Bin
Baud in which the latter said he was very busy in
Riyadh at present but would like to see me there,
when it suited,my convenience.
My reception was extraordinarily good. I
was offered a house in the town or tents outside,
choosing the latter as that arrangement pleased
them most they pitched 2 large tents for the men
and one smaller but higher red tent for me. Abbas
"Beg” conducted me back to my camp after our re
ception at the Palace, I riding back to camp on
Turki 1 s mare. Our camp was on sand near a clump
of ithal outside the N.E. face of Boraidah town
wall which is about a mile long with walls about
15 ft.high and a graat fort about the eentre of
the wsills with a tower at each corner and one in
the centre. A large watch-tower is a conspicuous
object in the rear face.
Turki has a thin, pale face, of a sort of
QjLd, ivory colour and smoothness, black eyes small
but not set too close together, about 5’8'* in
height. Intelligent and brave,! should say and
a man fond of honour and with a penchant for
higher ideals but somewhat effeminate,with the
inevitable scamp of the favourite son. His face
narrow general expression pleasing, boyish,rather
tender. He has a look of his father,but is of
quite a different build,being slight and rather
fragile.