"يوميّات رحلة من بلاد فارس إلى الهند عبر هراة وقندهار. وأيضًا تقرير رحلة إلى العاصمة الوهابية، الرياض في وسط الجزيرة العربية" [ظ‎‎٨‎٣] (٢٦٨/١٦٦)

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25. I think I shall be able to give the most faithful, although
not perhaps the most artistic sketch of the journey, by extracting
from my Daily Note Book; and this method, accordingly, I
propose to follow. Premising only that in describing a march
across a barren waste, the narrative, if faithful, must necessarily
partake of the character of the region traversed.
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26. On the morning of the 18th February, then, we left our
encampment immediately outside the walls of Kowait, and moved
for an hour in an easterly direction, and then gradually trended
south-south-east to a Fort, named Malah, which is five hours
distant from Kowait, and on the inland frontier of the little arron-
dissement of that Sheikhdom. Around the Fort are some wells,
a little cultivation, and a few temporary huts. A camel track is
traceable from the town to the Fort; but here all sign of road
suddenly ceases. The general character of the country is that of
a horizon-bounded prairie, undulating like long low waves.
During the first hour we rode over scant grass, eaten by locusts.
Afterwards the plains were sprinkled with low brushwood,
attempting to look green at this season of the early spring, and
which the camels browzed as we went along. Our halting ground
this evening lay about an hour and a half beyond the Fort, and
immediately on the confines of the Wahabee territory. A conical
hill, named Warrah, bore south-west and by south, and distant
about four or five miles, while a second and more distant hill,
named Sebayah, bore south and by west. Our halting ground was
not marked by any hut or fort. We collected a little water from
the pools due to the rain-fall of this morning; ordinarily no
water would be findable here.
27. On the morning of the 19th we broke ground at daylight,
and as this was our first undisturbed day's march, it may be conve
nient to give it as a sample of our ordinary method of propedure ;
which was, to rouse the camp just as our head camel-man called
his followers to morning prayer. This enabled us to have the
rowtie struck and the baggage packed and on the move by sun-