"معاملات الجمعية الجغرافية في بومباي. من يناير ١٨٦٣ حتى ديسمبر ١٨٦٤. (تحرير السكرتير.) المجلد XVII." [‎١‎٣‎١] (٥٢٤/٢٩٨)

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But I had another patient, an Arab, able-bodied to all appearance,
who came from some village near which we had passed. He walked
by the side of my horse the whole morning and told me his tale.
He had two wives, one had done him service for ten years. To the
other, young and beautiful, he had been married ten months ; but it
was a marriage only in name, and should it remain so for a year, the
Sheikh of the village would claim the maiden as his own.
The disconsolate husband looked up to the English Hakeem as all
powerful to assist him.
March Ibth, 5-45 a. m. —Mounted and rode ESE. over a plain
of dark-brown alluvial deposit with very little grass, and no animals
of any kind unless the Pterocles Arenarius here certainly in great
numbers. Delayed for twenty minutes by a loose mare.
8 a. m. —The plain now rose gradually before us and was covered
with grass.
The hills stretched along our left front about twenty miles
off. There were three ranges. A low one in front, a second about
three thousand feet high behind ; and behind that again in the dis
tance a great snow range.
9-30.—Direction SE. Here we found flocks of sheep and half a
dozen tents. The shepherds said they belonged to the division called
Humdan, and were immediately under Sheikh Farass. In the hot
weather they take their sheep to the Hindeean. There is rain water
four hours off to the North of this, and there these people send for it.
Passed a few herds of gazelle.
12.—Direction SE. by E. The town of Dey-Mollah is said to be
four fursacks to our left.
2.—A barren plain only slightly tinged with grass, with many herds
of gazelle.
Our general direction NE. by E., but for the last two hours our
guide had been deviating first to the right and then to the left,
and now looking rapidly round, he went off Northwards by himself on
pretence of finding a road and tried to bolt for it. The Resident
however quickly caught him up and brought him to his senses. Some
thing was now seen on the mirage still further North. I went in pursuit
with my servant, and after a gallop of three miles, found a man
driving sheep. He was hurrying them away from us, and as we ap-