'Persian Gulf Gazetteer Part II, Geographical and Descriptive Materials, Section III Central Arabia' [‎24v] (53/258)

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IIAJAR.—The northern part of Sumaan extending to Suk-esh-Shuyukh is
so called.
HAJIA or GARAT-AL-IIA.JAJ.—Ilill with ruins between Shakra and
ihormada, said to have been a place of pilgrimage before Islam.
HAJIR (BENI).—Iribe of about uOO persons, with 30 sections enumer
ated by Ross. They contributed annually the value of § 3,000 to the Neid
treasury about 1865.
HAJNOWWY.—Outlying grange of Rass, outside bed of Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Rummah
and about abreast of Khabara.
JIALTTAH.—Town or village of Yemama district.
HAM^IAM.—Village in Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Dowasir.
DAMMR.—Seventh of 8 places on route from Riadh to Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Bisha.
HAMPA (W AD 1)—1 his important valley drains the district of Aaredh,
traverses Aaicdli and enters \eniama j its subsecjuent course is unknown.
Rising apparently in the Jebel Tovveik hills, it leaves them at a point
marked by a conspicuous bluff west of Sedoos. From this point it runs
in a curve (which is the hollow side ?) to the ruined town of Eiyanah,
having low hills (? Jebel Khour) on its right bank between it and Jebei
loweik, and on its left bank a raised plateau extending from Sedoos
to Eiyanah. The northern approach to this upper basin is commanded by
ILoreymela, the western by Shakra and the southern by Kharfa. Sedoos and
Horeymela appear to be situated in tributary tcadis, the latter being at the
head of the icadi in which it stands. At Eiyanah the valley is only a few
hundred yards wide and the torrent bed in the centre is gravelly. Sadlier
found the bed sandy from Eiyanah (Oineeah) to Dereyya. From Eiyanah the
valley runs for about half a day's journey to Malka, first east bv south, then south,
then east by south and finally east-south-east. At Malka it forks, the main
channel running south to Dereyya and thence to Hiadh j the smaller channel
starts in an easterly direction and, according to Palgrave, also leads to Riadh.
Felly calls the smaller branch a "tributary," which is a term inconsistent with
his own description. At the point of bifurcation are a rest-house, a well, and a
garden containing figs and citrons. Down to this point the character of the
valley is fairly uniform, having an average width of a few hundred yards and
flat-topped scarps on either bank alternating with low slopes. The immediately
adjacent crests are never more than 200 feet high. Deer and partridges abound
ajon^ its course.^ Eloods are said to rise 7 or 8 feet. Erom Derevya down to
Riadh the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. appears to be, in places at least, a scarped and contracted ravine
rather than an open valleyAt Riadh it seems, from Palgrave's account, to
continue eastwards after passing IVfonfoohah. Inhabited places in its npper basin
are Horeymela, and Sedoos, and in the valley itself Eiyanah, Jebeyly, Eiman, then
several hamlets prettily situated among groups of trees and filling up the entire
breadth of the valley, then Malka, Riadh and possibly Manfooha. If Sadlier went
from Manfooha to Dereyya by this valley, its course below Dereyya is first east and
then south to Manfooha. This valley is the main seat of political power in Central
Arabia and has always contained the capital of Nejd (Eiyanah, Dereyya, Riadh).
It is e\idently well watered, fruitful and populous and its palm groves are luxuriant,
especially those adjoining the ruins of Eiyanah and Dereyya. Palgrave savs an
older name was Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Moseylamah. The question of the lower course of this valley
is one of the unsolved problems of Arabian geography. Hogarth is obviously
inclined to identify it with the « Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Aftan " of the ancients and to take one
of the estuaries between Ratar and Abu Dhabi, mentioned by Miles in a
report, as its mouth.
HATTHON (JEBEL).—Mountainous mass in the countrv of the Bakoom
tribe, about 100 miles north-east of Mecca. On its east side'is Taraba and in
the same neighbourhood Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Taraba takes its rise.
HABARA.—Town or village in the Aflaj district.
HAREEK (l).---A subdivision of the district of Yemama and the southern
most in ^ejd.^ The inhabitants are dusky, and Pelly does not credit them
with any lighting men. Shortly before descending from Jebel Toweik on his
route to Hofhuf, Palgrave caught a distant view of Hareek. It lay south of
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