[Un-numbered file] 'Diary of Colonel Hamilton's Visit to Nejd 1918' [‎75r] (149/206)

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clifflike sides. I saw orrly one path across them
to the right and one on the left. These were
mere sheep tracks impossible for loaded camels.
Saw some small partridges in rocks.
After crossing the watershed we came on to
a long plain, ending in the head of Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Hanifah.
Here,too,begin the extensive and imposing ruins
of Al-Ai vain ah ( ** V This old town was
about miles long. The torrent banks are
revetted wi tinstone masonry without mortar, rough
ly dressed. Many wells,much liket&ose of today
but with no water in them. At Aljubailah
( i ) is a mud village among the ruins
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of the old town but the only inhahabitant appea
red to be an old negro who has a house and a
patch of cultivation there. He looks after tra
vellers and is,I think,a guard of Bin Baud’s.
Hovembe r 12th » Started at 6.15 a.m. and halted
at 11 a.m. by some trees at the ruined village
of Aljubailah (see above). There was one well
above this: here there are two,one of which is
at the foot of the ruined village. The water
at Ayainah (one well) is at a depth of 96 it.
at Jubailah 84 ft.at Daraiyah 72 ft.at Riadh
84 ft.at Barrah about 48 ft. The negro told me
that Abdulaziz Bin Baud and his escort rode X
here in 12-jj*- hours from Riadh 2 months ago.
The cemetary at Jubailah is very extra
ordinary: the graves are exposed on the side
of the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. by diluvion action. These graves
are said to be those of the Companions or of
the followers Khalid Bin Waleed and other worth
-ies of early Mohammedan times.- Plenty of wood
cutters with their camels on the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. ol Hani-
fa:each camel load fetches in Riadh li or 2
dollars. Today I rode more or less all the
time with the baggage,but yesterday afternoon
went off with Sad (Ajman) A-amar,the Mullah
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