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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [‎110r] (228/834)

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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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JOURNEY ACROSS ARABIA.
us
//. Riyadh to Tail {continued).
The morning of the 8 th day out from Riyadh found ....
negotiating the continuation of the Hamra slope beyond
Ruwaidha. The recent rains made the going somewhat difficult
over the mixture of sand and light clay of which the surface is
composed, but matters gradually improved as we approached the
watershed of the Hamra system which we reached after a march
of nine miles from Ruwaidha. The downward slope was now
towards the west along a broad valley traversing the main line
of the Hamra range, through gaps in which a distant view was
obtained of the third of the Nejd ranges called Damkh running
north and south beyond the Haliban valley.
Proceeding down the eastward slope for about three and a
half miles we reached the qasrs and cornfields of Qusuriyya, an
outlying village of the Hamra district which proved to be the
last habitation seen by us until we reached Khurma. Hence a
o-entle rise up a pass through the Hamra range, to the south of
which in the distance lay the small villages of Huhura and
Sadiya,brought usin twenty minutes to the edge of the Haliban plain
at the further edge of which about eleven miles away stood out the
Damkh range in all its grandeur, while far to the south in continuation
of the Hamra ridge appeared the great mountain mass of babha.
Here the pilgrim track strikes across the plain almost due
'south-west to the wells of Haliban in a shaib of the same name
which runs down the middle of the valley diagonally towards
the edge of the Damkh range. The recent ram had, however,
rendered us independent of wells and we marched west-south
west towards an opening in the hills which we reached m tune
to camp in a little hollow protected from view by low hillocks,
called Samra Haliban. , .. ,
We were now about 2,800 feet above sea-level at a distance
of 180 miles from Riyadh, and the lulls ot the Dam i iai>ge
towered above us perhaps some 2,000 feet or more the lofties
mass of all being the Ghurur ridge at some distance to the noi ,
while the ridges of Nafsa and Kahila filled m the space between
Ghurur and fur camp, and Farida stood somewhat to the south
of our line of march, which on the following day penetrated the
mime in a south-west direction along a broad clearing terminate
Xfr some eighteen miles of march by the depression of Sha b
O^aa rumniig north and south and forming the wester
Dahqa, run „ tern. Far to the south we saw from
time to time during this march an important range called Idhqan
- ic ssnstn
, , : y,pries of such depressions which collectively
constitute the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Sirra. The main channel of the latter was

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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.

Physical characteristics

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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