"دليل الجزيرة العربية المجلد I" [‎٥‎٣‎٤] (١٠٥٠/٥٦٥)

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DHU--DHU
Name.
Position.^
Houses
and
inhabitants.
Remarks
Mizahmiyah
See above
100 houses, viz., 40
of Bani Tamim, 40
of inferior tribes,
and the remainder
'Anizah and Dawa-
sir.
There are 6,000 date
palms a few fruit
trees and the usual
cereals and lucerne.
The water level is
the same as at
Dhrumah, or not
quite so deep.
Rodhah
Do.
1
45 houses , viz.; 30
of 2 Anizah and 16
of inferior tribes.
Resembles Mizahml
yah, except that
date palms are es
timated at 4,000
and that Water is at
10 fathoms.
This seems tlie most conveninet place in which to refer to the torrent bed of Abalji-
lat which, though not directly connected with Dhrumah, adjoins it on the southward,
being situated (apparently) in the hills of Jabal Tuwaiq between Dhrumah and the
Hariq district. It is said to rise in the same neighbourhood as the Nisah tributary of
Wadi Hanifah; but its direction must be different, for, after passing a village
called Jau-as-Saibani, it runs southwards to Khashm-adh-Dhib in the Hariq
district, where it ends. Only in times of exceptional flood does its water reach to
Khashm-adh-Dhib.
The village of Jau-as-Saibani is a poor and scattered one ; it ordinarily consists of 40
houses of slaves only. Bani Tamim, however, from Dhrumah and Mizahmlyah, come
here to cultivate in the cold weather. There are no date trees and no lucerne, but wheat,
barely, millet and melons are grown. Water is at 4 fathoms from the ground level.—
{Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf.)
DHU ? AMIR—
A small settlement in Yemen, South-western Arabia. It is situated about 10 miles
south-east from Sa'dhah, and constitutes one of the halting places on the route between
that settlement and Rajj.
DHU BIYAT—
See Aden (Protectorate).
DHU DAFR (I sland)—
See Farasan (Islands and Bank); bank, western side.
DHU HAMAIDAN—
A village in Yemen, South-western Arabia. It is situated a few miles west of the
Sana t a-Riyadh route and some 10 miles south of Wadi Najran.—( Hunter's map of Arabia.
DHU JIBLAH—
See Jiblah.
DHU RAJI (Island)—
See Shukar (Abu) (Island and Bank).