[Un-numbered file] 'Diary of Colonel Hamilton's Visit to Nejd 1918' [‎62r] (123/206)

days via Artawiyah to Zilfi, When sufiiciently
recovered he joined the ^hereof vho at that time
was on the side of the Turks, After the Shereef
had cast off the Turks,our friend continued in
his service. He spoke a lot about Lawrence with
Faisal at Akabah and said he was almost like
Bedouin all the tribes knew him. Nejdis were all
called Agaili down south and received pay from
the Shereef at the rate of £ 6 a month. Those
employed on "dynamite” operations for destroying
the railway got £,15 p.m. At least 1000 men he
said have gone from here to assist the Shereef
andjabout 4,000 from Kasim have gone also to the
Hejaz to earn pay.
News is that Ibn Kashid left Medina and
went to A1 Hejr, I do not altogether agree with
Handbook of Arabia regarding its comparison bet-
ween Boraidah and Aneizah.as a handsomely built
town. The aristocracy are mostly related and
very united. Their corporate life is like that
of a mediaeval Italian republic with their
elective Ameer chosen from the princely house of
Bin Halim. Boraidah is larger,if the environs
and suburbs are taken into account, and is per
haps more populous. My own belief is that Aney-
zah has at least an equal settled population and
its bazaars are infinitely better in every way,
the shops larger,better stocked and kept. As
for the people,there is no comparison;the people
of Aneyzah are by comparison highly civilized. j
T he best of them have travelled at least to
Koweit,Bahrain,Basrah,Karachi and Bombay,while
many of them have gone far afield to the west
and are acquianted with Damascus.Beirut and
Constantinople.
Gave all my party ten dollars each to
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