Southern Arabia

Theodorebent Bent, Theodore Bent, Mabel Bent

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Title: Southern Arabia
Author: Theodore Bent
Mabel Bent
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Language: English
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Signature: Theodore Bent
London. Published by Smith, Elder & Co. 15, Waterloo
Place.
SOUTHERN ARABIA
BY
THEODORE BENT, F.R.G.S.,
F.S.A.
AUTHOR OF 'THE RUINED CITIES OF
MASHONALAND' 'THE SACRED CITY OF THE
ETHIOPIANS' 'THE CYCLADES, OR LIFE AMONG
THE INSULAR GREEKS' ETC.
ANDMRS THEODORE BENT
WITH A PORTRAIT, MAPS, AND
ILLUSTRATION
LONDON
SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO
PLACE
1900
[All rights reserved]

PREFACE
If my fellow-traveller had lived, he intended to have put
together in book form such information as we had
gathered about Southern Arabia. Now, as he died four
days after our return from our last journey there, I
have had to undertake the task myself. It has been
very sad to me, but I have been helped by knowing
that, however imperfect this book may be, what is
written here will surely be a help to those who, by
following in our footsteps, will be able to get beyond
them, and to whom I so heartily wish success and a
Happy Home-coming, the best wish a traveller may
have. It is for their information that I have included somany things about the price of camels, the payment of
soldiers and so forth, and yet even casual readers
may care to know these details of explorers' daily
lives.
Much that is set down here has been published
before, but a good deal is new.
My husband had written several articles in the
Nineteenth Century, and by the kindness of the editor
I have been able to make use of these; also I have
incorporated the lectures he had given before the
Royal Geographical Society and the British
Association. The rest is from his note-books and from
the 'Chronicles' that I always wrote during our
journeys.
I thought at first of trying to keep our several writings
apart; but, to avoid confusion of inverted commas, I
decided, acting on advice, just to put the whole thing
into as consecutive a form as possible, only saying
that the least part of the writing is mine.
The bibliography is far from complete, as I can name
only a few of the many books that my husband
consulted on all the districts round those which we
were going to penetrate.
As to the spelling of the Arabic, it must be
remembered that it is a very widely spread language,
and there are naturally many different forms of the
same word—e.g. ibn, ben, bin—and such very various
ways of pronouncing the name of the Moslem prophet,
that I have heard it pronounced Memet, Mamad and
Mad.Mad.
I must give hearty thanks in both our names to all who
helped us on in these journeys, and especially to Mr.
Headlam, who has given me much assistance by
going through the proofs of this book. Mr. W. C. Irvine
has kindly provided the column of literary Arabic for
the vocabulary.
MABEL VIRGINIA ANNA BENT.
13 Great Cumberland Place, W:
October 13, 1899.
CONTENTS
page
Bibliogra

phy ix

SOUTHERN ARABIA
chapter
I Manamah and Moharek 1
II The Mounds of Ali 16
III Our Visit to Rufa'a 30
MASKAT
IV Some Historical Facts about Oman 45
V Maskat and the Outskirts 63

THE HADHRAMOUT
VI Makalla 71
VII Our Departure into the Interior 81
VIII The Akaba 88
IX Through Wadi Kasr 98
X Our Sojourn at Koton 111
XI The Wadi Ser and Kabr Saleh 126
XII The City of Shibahm 142
XIII Farewell to the Sultan of Shibahm 162
XIV Harassed by our Guides 177
XV Retribution for our Foes 199
XVI Coasting Eastward by Land 210
XVII Coasting Westward by Sea 220

DHOFAR AND THE GARA MOUNTAINS
XVIII Merbat and Al Hafa 227
XIX The Gara Tribe 244XX The Gara Mountains 256
XXI The Identification of Abyssapolis 268
XXII Sailing from Kosseir to Aden 277

AN AFRICAN INTERLUDE: THE EASTERN
SOUDAN
XXIII Coasting along the Red Sea 287
XXIV Halaib and Sawakin Kadim 298
XXV Inland from Mersa Halaib 303
XXVI Mohammed Gol 309
XXVII 'Dancing on Tom Tiddler's Ground, Pi
cking up Gold' 313
XXVIII Behind the Jebel Erba 327

THE MAHRI ISLAND OF SOKOTRA
XXIX Kalenzia 343
XXX Eriosh and Kadhoup 353
XXXI Tamarida or Hadibo 361
XXXII We Depart for the Land's End, i.e. Ra
s Momi 371
XXXIII Mount Haghier and Fereghet 378
XXXIV Back to the Ocean 390
BELED FADHLI AND BELED YAFEI
XXXV Experiences with the Yafei Sultan 399
XXXVI Among the Fadhli 412
XXXVII From the Plain of Mis'hal to the Sea 421

Appendi

ces 431
Index 451
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