مجموعة ٢٠/١٠ "مسقط: حدود (مسقط-عدن) الجنوبية الغربية: نطاقات مسؤولية السلطات الجوية في العراق وعدن" [و‎‎٩‎٧] (٢٠٠/١٩٣)

private & Personal
Muscat 4 x3axlc March
(Arabia j
n
1930
Dear ,
Your Xmas card reached me on the day I was setting
out for South Arabia, a land innocent of postal communications.;
I returned to Muscat onlyyesterday so that I am really not the
sluggard/ I may have appeared. I have been busy in the two
intervening months camel trekking in the sands of BtTP'AL KHALI
and filling in the blanks of Hunter’s Map. It has been great
fun.I did not manage to cross the sands this year but did
achieve a prismatic compass traverse of about 450 miles of
unexplored Arabia reaching a point about 180 miles due north
of Dhufar. My aneroid \readings with those of my previous
journey through the South Eastern Borderlands discover I
think the structure of the south eastern quarter of the
peninsula in relation to the rest of it, the unsolved —
geographical problem that Hogarth mentions in his ’Penetration’
Thus for 35 days in the saddle I kept fit and led willy nilly
a blameless life. The Sultan has considerable influence in and
about DHUEAB and my journey was made possible by his assistance
(not financial as I footed that myself) in getting my party
of 30 local Badus together. H.H. in fact made the sea journey
to Dhufar this year for the sole purpose of furthering my aims-
delightful of him and characteristic^ ^— .
Cm.
In cage you are- interested in slight account of
the previously unpenetrated Central South I will ask the B.G.S,
to send you two cards of admittance for the meeting when my
paper is read, that is^if their session is not already at an
end.
H.H. and I afterwards toured along the South
Coast -the frankincense coast of the Ancients where his writ
runs i.e. from DEABBAT ALI to HADHBABAM ( the chart names need
retransliterating) and landed at the chief ports. There we
found the copper currency of Muscat I had introduced tv.o