[Un-numbered file] 'Diary of Colonel Hamilton's Visit to Nejd 1918' [‎45r] (89/206)

under some castle-like sandstone hills. We were
4 hours and 10 minutes on this uays march, hamood
(Athar Barazi’s young Brother) Turjim, Sahili ihn
Khar aim and 1-auwar al Jansawi came v ’ i th t p thei
mounted men and had coffee. While receiving therrij i
the Shagra caravan Began to arrive under its
ameer, ABdullah Bin Sadhan. He says that he met
a very large Shammar caravan coming from Nejd
under IBn JaBrin or Belonging to that section
of the Shammar. He thinks that they have in all
proBaBility Been sent By Turki as their people
are camped Beyond Artawiyah*
Hear at every place that IBn Rashid is now
in Teimah; also that he is now deserted By most
of the Shammar. The latter can get nothing from
the KerBela,Hej ef, Shmawah line and are very hard
put to it for food. All the Shammar say that
they wish to take sides with us or, to put it
in their own words, to come under the Government,
Mv experience of the AraBs of tne ohaniyah (i.e.
desert south of the Euphrates) during the last
tv/o years, or so, all goes to show; that their
friendliness to the British is genuine. I think
the Bedouin are traditionally pro-British. We
have a great name among them for humanity,justice
and honesty. J -hey alw f ays say that the English
man is a man of his word. If he says "yes" it is
all right and if "no", he cannot Be compelled to
change his mind,though open to argument.
The wells here are lined with stone for
aBout 50 ft. I measured the distance to the
(one of two only). The water is Brown, But with
aBove the general level rather like a volcanic
water and found
There was on!
the clearness
almost tepid