File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [‎112r] (232/834)

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siege in the sense that no exit was allowed to its people in the
direction of the Hejaz, while the warriors of the Snbai and
Buqum were trying to outmanoeuvre each other in the vast
plains between Qunsuliya and the Hadhu hills. This was a
decidedly unwelcome piece of news to us, though the Shaqra
party, which we had met in the Arjal Subai, had warned us that
something was amiss.
The village of Khurma is an unwalled shapeless collection of
houses in the middle of an extensive plantation of date palms
which stretches several miles up and down the wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. . Eastward
of Khurma, in the wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. bed, lies the little plantation of
Sulaimiya and eastward of the latter along the lower course of
the wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. down to the D halm a lie the wells of Wutta, Hunnu,
Shudhu, Hujaif, Barida and Hanifa in that order from west to
east while Turaba lies south-west of Khurma in the upper
reaches of the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Subai (locally known as Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. furaba at
that point) at a distance of some thirty or forty miles. At
Khurma itself and below it water is obtainable almost anywhere
in the sandy bed of the zoadi at a depth of a few inches be ow
the surface and very excellent water it is. village when
fully inhabited contains perhaps some o ,000 or 6,000 inhabitants
and lies about 3,000 feet above sea-level at a distance of nearly
370 miles from Riyadh, which we had traversed m fourteen days
So far the iourney had thrown much valuable lighten the
hydrographic problems of the central band of the peninsular,
which”if^ny observations may be trusted slopes distinctly to tie
routhward from a point a good many mdes north of my route
from the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Haiiifa on the east to the eastern edge of the
Shifa plain, the slope presumably reachmg its lowest point some
where in the great depression of Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Dawasir.
nlain drains eastward into the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Nairn and westward into the
finds of the Arial Subai, but the drainage appears to have no
MlytShrd tLfihrmdfsulli, which is Continuation of
4-1 \\r r TnroKi does not in its main channel form any pait
the gr-t d^ge ^ —C
The cmCaryCpCr to ^fCWaSfe smids'oftt
Subai plain or m seasons of h^vy ^od again ^ ^ the
Arjal Subai from n l lth f A There is however, a branch of
pent-up flood to north 01 sou . , • p p 0 (f from the
the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Subai called S ha Cf r ^un^ream of K hurma al ,d,
main u-adi several y";;Syjr e rthe Harra and ‘Hadhu
collecting the drainage of ,™ ies flows out north-east
through a erge -vumbe ^ “nllja, whence it joins the
across the plain to a point i them limits of the Key!
Shaib Jann, issuing ^ lom ,, ^r a( q e l-Kiyah and thence into
highlands, and passes ommto the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. w y
the great depression of Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Rumim .