Arabian Sands (54 page)

Shahin,
289
–90

Shanin,
137

Shakhbut, Sheikh of Abu Dhabi,
263
–4,
266
,
271
,
281
; authority over tribes,
271

Shammar, the,
68

Sharaifi, the,
327

Sharja:
275
,
327
–8; R.A.F. aerodrome at,
276
; arrival at,
275

Sharja, sheikh of,
327
,
328

Sheep:
92
,
175
,
245
,
304
; Barbary,
34

Sheppard, C. H. J. British Resident in Mukalla,
201
,
203
–4

Shibam,
204
,
211
; stores bought at,
212

Shield, Qarra,
81

Shihr,
201

Shilluk, the,
34

Shanan,
152

Shisur,
65
,
100

Shrines, offerings left at,
205

Sib, Treaty of,
273

Skink,
162

Slaves:
77
–8,
105
,
125
,
238
,
240
–1,
323
; price of,
282
–3; caravan of,
284

Snakes:
123
; Bedu bitten by,
88

Somaliland, French,
30

Somalis, the,
22
,
25
,
276

Special Air Service Regiment,
38

Spiders,
123

Spirit, evil, possession by.
See
Zar

Springtime, rareness of, in the desert,
258

Staiyun, of the Duru:
173
–5; offers to guide Umbarak in Oman,
299
,
300
–1; returns to encampment,
302

Stick: Qarra throwing-stick,
80
; camel-stick,
124

Stocks, Umbarak’s companions put in,
241

Sudan, the,
31
,
109

Sudan Defence Force,
37

Sudd,
34

Sulaim, of the Mahra, a
Rabia,
197

Sulaiman bin Hamyar.
See
bin Hamyar

Sulaiman bin Kharas.
See
bin Kharas

Sulaiyil,
207
,
219
,
238
,
240

Sultan, of the Al Hiya,
307
ff.

Sultan, of the Bait Kathir:
51
,
56
–7,
61
,
78
,
80
,
81
,
127
; personality of,
51
; points out trilithons,
90
; and proposed crossing of the Empty Quarter,
111
,
114
; on the crossing,
124
; refuses to go on,
131
–2; brooding,
178

Sumeria,
92

Sword, Qarra,
81

Syria,
37
–8

Tagrud,
291

Tahr, the hunting of,
274

Taif,
75
,
265

Taj Mahal,
99

Tajura,
30

Tamarinds,
47

Tamarisk,
111
,
200

Tamis well,
208

Tamtaim, Salim, of the Bait Kathir:
49
,
51
,
61
,
65
,
83
,
85
; age and vigour of,
49
,
78
; at prayer,
55
; as arbitrator,
112
; reunion with, at Bai,
178

Tamudic script,
90

Tarim,
74
,
210

Tawi Harian well,
307

Tawi Yasir,
314

Temperatures: in summer,
89
; in the sands,
140

Tents, Arab,
88
,
97
,
169
,
214
,
312

Tharaud well:
71
; fighting at,
217
,
218
,
280

Thesiger, Wilfred.
See
Umbarak

Thomas, Bertram:
42
,
46
,
77
,
179
,
254
,
298
;
Arabia Felix,
34
,
48
; remembered by Bait Kathir,
50
,
52
–3; on trilithons,
90
; on Umm al Samim,
118
; and crossing of the Empty Quarter,
121
–2

Thunderstorms,
256

Tibbu, the,
35

Tibesti Mountains,
35
ff.

Ticks, leathery.
See
Dhafar

Tieroko, Mt.,
36

Tihama, the,
75
,
105
,
242

Timkat,
18

Toadstools, edible,
267

Tracks, recognition of, in desert,
65
–6

Trenchard, Marshal of the R.A.F Viscount,
39

Tribulus.
See
Zahra

Trilithons,
90
–1,
190

Trucial Coast, the:
68
,
77
,
211
,
243
; fighting on,
124
; authority on,
272

Trucial Oman Scouts,
272

Truffles,
267

Tubaiq range,
243

Tumuli,
25
,
89
–90,
190
,
253

Turks,
92

Uainat, seized by Italians,
32

Umbarak (the author):
91
; extra food given to,
151
; difficulties of concealing, in hostile country,
155
,
160
–1; faces starvation,
157
–8; poses as a Syrian,
173
,
175
; trouble in Bait Khawar on way to Mukalla,
196
–7; unrecognized by Rashid in European dress,
202
; telegram to Ibn Saud,
239
; interrogated by Amir of Wadi Dawasir,
240
; release of,
242
; chases raiders,
285
; finds they are friends,
286
; obstacles to his entering Oman,
295
; in disguise among foothills of Oman,
309
ff.; attack of fever,
322

Umbrausha, a camel,
56
,
57

Umm al Hait, the,
87
,
108
,
111
,
128

Umm al Samim quicksands:
110
,
118
,
146
,
174
,
182
,
296
ff.; path across,
302

Uruq al Shaiba, the,
116
,
118
,
144
ff.,
158

Uruq al Zaza sands,
227

Uvarov, Dr.,
42
,
76
,
182

Villiers, Commander Alan,
276

Vines,
17

Von Wrede, Adolph,
296
,
298

Wad Medani,
34

Wadi.
See under individual names of Wadis

Wahiba, the:
48
,
175
,
320
,
323
; desire to cross their country,
302
,
306
; funeral feasts of the,
304
; contrasted with the Duru,
313

Wahabis,
271

Wall of Dhaufar,
43
,
45
,
49
,
180

Walia Riqaiya,
205

Ward, Rowland:
Records of Big Game,
20

Water: the carrying of,
85
; scarcity of,
88
–9,
126
.
See also
Camels, watering of

Water-skins,
85
,
212

Watts, A. F., Political Officer in the Hadhramaut,
204
,
210

Wellsted, J. R.,
273

Western Aden Protectorate,
196

Western Sands.
See
Empty Quarter

Widgeon,
179

Wind-turrets,
276

Wingate’s Gideon Force,
37

Wolves,
199
,
235

Yahahif, the,
306
,
311

Yahya, Imam,
228

Yam, the:
103
,
203
,
204
,
225
; raided by the Manahil,
186
,
207
; massing to attack the Saar,
212
; raiding parties of,
216
; possible danger from, after crossing Western Sands,
220
,
280
; meeting with,
237
–8; killer of bin Duailan from,
243
; attacks on the Mishqas,
243
–4

Yamin.
See
Ghail ba Tamin

Yarmuk, battle of,
98

Yasir, of the Junuba:
295
,
314
; asks Imam for permission for Umbarak to cross Oman,
315
–16

Yemen, the:
44
,
68
,
77
,
91
–2,
185
–6; encouragement of raiders by government, in,
185
; Imam of,
280

Yisbub,
179

Zaghawa,
35

Zahra:
123
,
128
,
130
; as camel food,
138
,
142
,
144

Zamakh well,
205
,
212

Zanzibar, conquest of, by Oman,
273

Zar,
109

Zarzura,
38

Zayid bin Sultan.
See
bin Sultan, Zayid.

Zifr wells,
236

Zuaqti watercourse,
301
.

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