"نجد الجنوبية: رحلة إلى الخرج والأفلاج والسليل ووادي الدواسر في سنة ١٩١٨." [و‎‎٢‎٩] (١٠٠/٦٢)

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sand in parts, sloping gently up to a low ridge of similar character.
The palm-belt, varying much in density and quality, lies in
blocks separated from each other by open spaces from one
eighth to a quarter of a mile long almost exclusively along the
left bank, i.e. up the sand slope and contains a number of isolated
qasrs or country houses, while the habitations with very few
exceptions lie on the bare slope of the right bank, each town or
village opposite the block of palms owned by its inhabitants.
Between the habitations and the palms runs the wadi, seldom
more than half a mile broad, in whose bed a good deal of wheat
cultivation by well-irrigation normally takes place, though
the flood of last year has resulted in a serious setback in this
direction. The oasis is completed by a small uninhabited
tamarisk patch lying half a mile east of Sharafa and the bush
patch of Raka about two miles further east.
The extreme western section of the oasis is, as already
noted, known as Faraa, though there is no village of that name,
and consists of a straggling collection of small palm-groves
with a considerable sprinkling of tamarisk and a number of
small hamlets spread over rather more than one mile. Ihe
most westerly hamlet is Siraji, consisting of 100 souls of the
A1 Humaidhan division of the A] Uwaimir subsection of Wuddain.
Close by it on the east are the .hamlets of A1 Nahish (200 in
habitants) and A1 Jilal (fifty souls) inhabitated by divisions of
A1 Uwaimir bearing those names. All these settlements and
a solitary qasr called Maaimira lie among the palms on the
left bank of the wadi. Still belonging to h araa but situated
on the opposite bank of the channel lies a group of four hamlets,
two wholly and the other two largely in ruins, namely, Al Hamid
and Huwaiza (ruined and untenanted) and Al Maanni (300
inhabitants of a division of the same name of Al Uwaimir)
and Hamra (containing 200 inhabitants of the Al Uwaimir
subsection). To the south of this group on the ridge lies a small
ruined fort called Huwail. So much for the I 1 araa section
whose total population is about 850 inhabitants: depending
largely on corn rather than date cultivation it has been reduced
to serious straits by the great flood.
Barely a quarter of a mile east of Hamra lies the large par
tially walled village of Sabha more often called Al Wullamin,
containing some 1,000 inhabitants wholly of the independent
Wullamin section of the Dawasir, who strongly supported the
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