"نجد الجنوبية: رحلة إلى الخرج والأفلاج والسليل ووادي الدواسر في سنة ١٩١٨." [ظ‎‎١‎٨] (١٠٠/٤١)

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the dates ot the oasis, comprising mostly the varieties known as
Sin Safn, Makwizi, and Nabt al Saif, are of excellent quality
cotton is grown in a desultory fashion, never in fields hut as
stopgaps and border plants; saffron, lucerne, and egg-plant
sue largely cultivated ; wheat is grown to a limited extent and
the ordinary fruit trees of Nejd are found in fair profusion-
pomegranates, vines, peaches, and apricots, the fruit of the
first-named being gathered unripe and used exclusively for
the extraction of a dye for women's garments.
No account of Laila would be complete without at least
passing mention of the tragedy enacted in its market place in
was 0 7TV 6 ^ raif rebelIi0n - Tlle rebel 8ta *dard
was first raised at Hanq, whose leading men declared for the
descendants of Sand and on Ibn Sand's approach accompanied
them m their flight southward. Hariq was partially destroved
mentTv r f 1 ^ Hauta ^d itself from like treat-
fled to tb.Afl^ ^ & aSylum and the ha P less rebe,s
fled to the Aflaj where they received some show of support
Ibn bauds swift pursuit and unexpected arrival before Laila
however prevented the rebel situation developing and the
pretenders themselves having sought safety in flight to Mecca
eir anq supporters threw themselves on the mercy of Ibn
Saud and surrendered at discretion,whereupon nineteen of them
oasistf Saih ^Tn 11 " 168 M the S0 , utll - east of lies the splendid
neariv l^wn m I roughly north-west by south-east and measur-
part WatMwl T T ng , ^ 0ne mile aoross its broa ^t
floods from the Jn r n a n, not;e ^' by perennial streams,
of the Afl,, o an t W i ' Salh 18 by far the most flourishing
-tie Aflaj oases ; its palm-groves are extremelv dense and
as one would expect, there is a good deal of snbsidiarv cultivation
di" L t ables and the Ilke - Tlie
Ullage of modera f OU8 0f wllich contains one
g nodeiate size and a number of pettv hamlets TI ip
western section is called Saih (Al Dunvai