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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [‎49r] (106/834)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (411 folios). It was created in 1917-1920. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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— 487 —
• A most .valuable part of Huber’s contribution to knowledge
is the material he collected from native information This is
hidden away m all sorts of unlikely places througW his
Jouriial As an example we find the following; entries
immediately succeeding each other. Dec, 1st : ‘ Ton jours la
fievre, etc. Dec. 4th ‘ I am a little better to-day.’ Dec, 6th
* fwo men of Jauf whom I questioned concerning the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
birhan gave me the following details,’ and there follows a list of
sixteen^ wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. affluents of the Sirhan depression, with all proper
names in original Arabic, with description of source, length and
ultimate destination of each, and also a sketch map of routes
between Jauf and the Hauran. (Ten days later this was
supplemented by another three or four pages of notes collected
fiom another source.) Dec. 7th, He gives a complete inventory
of a native house in Hail (names in Arabic) with a description of
each article, supplemented by sketches, altogether occupyino-
twelve pages of text. Dec. 8th. An observation for latitude.
And so on each day, whether travelling or at rest, he gives us,
besides his ordinary entries for time and direction, some stray
note on hydrography, the copy of an inscription, a piece of local
history, or a panoramic sketch of his surroundings. It remains
to be proved to what extent Huber’s information is reliable,
for instance, he notes some forty names of waterings in the
Nefud borders. Of these I can at present only identify six on
other authority. But as our knowledge increases I have no
doubt many, if not all, of these localities will be found to exist.
The first piece of Huber’s work to be re-plotted was the
route between Jebel Druz and Hail : this is appearing on the Jauf
sheet of the one million series. As a notable instance of the
results obtained by re-plotting, Jubba is moved twenty miles to
the east of its former position, thus straightening out the route
between Jauf and Hail, and modifying that rather unlikely right-
angle in the route between the Aleim, Jubba and Kena.
The portion now in progress covers the area between Tebuk,
Feima and Medain Salih, extending eastwards to Jebel Shammar.
Accepting Huber’s latitudes, direction, and a mean between his
times, the position of Medain Salih and Muadhdham are moved
still further to the east than they are on the revised ‘ Wejh ’
sheet, the distance between the railway and Teima being again
shortened considerably.”

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The volume consists of individual copies of the Arab Bulletin produced by the Arab Bureau at the Savoy Hotel, Cairo numbers 66-114. These publications contain wartime, and post-war intelligence obtained by British sources. They deal with economic, military, and political matters in Turkey, the Middle East, Arabia, and elsewhere, which – in the opinion of British officials – affect the ‘Arab movement’; the bulletins cover a wide range of topics and key personalities.

The volume contains the following maps:

  • A map of Central Arabia showing St John Philby's route from Uqair to Jidda 17 November to 31 December 1917: folio 103.
  • Sketch map prepared from RNAS photographs and reconnaissance by HMS City of Oxford of Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Mur February to March 1918 : folio 170.
  • Sketch map of Hejaz (1919): folio 317.
  • Tribal sketch map of the Hadhramaut ‘showing only tribes of fighting value’: folios 333v.

Towards the back of the volume is a small amount of correspondence respecting the distribution of Notes on the Middle East ; the Arab Bulletin was superseded by this publication. Copies of numbers 3-4 of this publication can also be found at the back of the volume.

Tables of content can be found at the front of each issue. A small amount of content is in French.

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1 volume (411 folios)
Arrangement

The Arab Bulletins are arranged in numerical order from the front to the back of the file. The Notes on the Middle East follow on from the bulletins at the back of the file in reverse numerical order.

The subject 759 (Arab Bulletins) consists of two volumes. IOR/L/PS/10/657-658.

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Condition: the edges of some of the folios towards the back of the volume have suffered damage to their edges due to general wear and tear. The affected folios are 389-390, 407-409, and 412.

Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 413; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. The front cover and the leading flyleaf have not been foliated. A previous foliation sequence, which is present between ff 357-363 and ff 374-412 and is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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