Arabia And The Isles

Arabia And The Isles
by Harold Ingrams

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ARABIAAND THE ISLESBY HAROLD INGRAMS, C.M.G., 0 J.E.With Foreword byLT.COL SIR BERNARD REILLY, K.CM.G, CXR, OJBJB. 4GOVERNOR OF ADEN, 193740The mountain shall bring peace to thepeople, and the little hillt by righteomess.PSALM 72. v. 3,CONTENTSPART IPAGEForeword by Sir Bernard Reilly, K.C.M.G., C.IE, O.B.E . ixAuthors Foreword......... xiPrelude........ xvChapterL The Erythraean Sea....... 3II. A Pooh Bah in Pemba....... 12III. The Green Island Men of Oman . . . . ,.26IV. MenofShihr........ 40V. Antres VastIn Zanzibar TownA Dhow from KuweitLatham Island ....... 47VL Mauritian Interlude and Oriental Encounters ... 63VII. Aden Town........ 84Kill. The Aden Protectorate....... 91IX. Lahej, Museimir and the Qat Trade, . . . 103X. Troubled Waters....... 113PART HXT. The Far Off Hills of Hadhramaut and the Lands of Genesisl 137XII. The Gateway of the Hadhramaut . . . . . 147XIII. Travel in the Hadhramaut . . . . . . 154XI7. WadisandJolstoDuan...... 164XV. In the Valley of Du an...... 169XVI. A Peacemaking Patriarch...... 177XVII. Into the Wadi Hadhramaut...... 184XFHI, The Tomb ofSalih and the Sefar Country . . ..193CONTENTSChapter PAGEXIX. Seiyun and Tarim........ 203XX. The Tomb of Hud in the Valley of the Floods . . .210XXI. A River of the Rivers of ParadiseThe Mahra Country . 217XXII. Last Days in Shihr and Mukalla..... 235PART IIIXXLTI. Return to the Hadhramaut and the First Move . . .243XXTK Over the Hills to Tarim...... 251XXV. Tribal Warfare and Seiyid Bubakr..... 258XXFI Visits to the Tribes and the First Peace Conference in Seiyun , 265XXFZT. An Incident and the Trial of the Bin Yemani Tribe . . 275XXVIIL Royal Air Force Action and the Submission of the Bin Yemani 285XXIX. The Signing of the Truce ..., 298XXX. The New Road........ 312XXXI. Trouble With the Sefar and Other Tribes . . ,318XXXZI The Social Round....... 33IXXXIII. Present and Future....... 338XXXIV. The Future of the Hadhramaut..... 34IIndex ,VIILLUSTRATIONSFrom Photographs by the Author, exceptSaid and his pipe............Mukalla from the air ..........The Bazaar, Mukalla ..........Camel park, Mukalla ..........The Guest House, Mukalla ........Notables at Mukalla, including Sultan Salih and AivadhMukalla from the Customs..........Gateway in the Hadhramaut ........Date palms in Wadi Duan..........Wadi Duan. Women carrying firewood......Ba Surra family at Masna a..........Farewell group at Masna a..........The Mansab ofMeshhed. Said Ahmed and drummer boyMeshhed..............Shibam ..............Shibam ..............vShibam from the air..........At Umars house, Tarim..........Group at Mdat............SeiyidUmars house ........Tarim from the air............Wadi Hadhramaut fiom the air........viiFrontispiecebetween pages152 and 153between pages176 and 177between pages192 and 193ILLUSTRATIONSQabr Salih, Mosque .......Seiyunfrom the air. Kathiri Sultans PalaceSeiyun ...........Einat. Mosque.........Seiyun. Mosque .....Qabr Hud...........Group at Qabr Hud.........Drawing water ........Cave chvellings at SenaShihr ...........

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