Thurs Jan 29. [29 January 1914] We got off yesterday with Awwad
and rode through rolling country full of camels and an occasional
single Sharari tent. We stopped to drink coffee in the big tent of
'Audeh who is as usual away raiding the Shammar. Photographed
his sister 'Aliyah and his wives. Shammariyyat. He has 2 Shammar
wives cousins. A Shammar shaikh quarrelled with Ibn Rashid, came
and camped near 'Audeh and raided Nejd [Najd] with him. Hence
these marriages which otherwise are unusual. He has a Howaitiyyeh
wife also and one other a Ruwalla woman. (Harb has recently
married a young wife. I photographed her with Qasim, son of the old
wife. He called her 'ammeti. Here we heard that the Ruwalla were in
the W. Sirhan [Sirhan, Wadi] and it presently turned out that Awwad
could not go there for they would kill him at sight. He had already told
us he could not go to Jof [Jawf, Al (Al Jauf)]. We sent him off to
Muhammad's tents to bring a Sherari and came into camp early.
Good trees, greening. Awwad returned with Muhammad, Audeh,
Haddaj (whom I had photographed in Shaikh Audeh's big tent). They
brought me a lamb and an ostrich skin and stayed to dine and sleep.
We sent for the Sherari who duly appeared but I had heard of a ruin at
the Khabra of Kilweh and decided reluctantly that I must see it.
Muhammad says "Oh Listeners". His duty with the Govt (he is Shaikh
al Dowleh) is to collect the miri[?] which is 1/2 a mej sagh. He
receives a fourth for his pains. There is another Sh. al D. for the Ibn
Jazi, M. is only for the Abu Tayyi. Their people in Egypt are the
[space left blank]. They went at the conquest. They have lands near
Tauta. When a Howaiti falls out with the govt here he goes to Egypt.
But the Ott. Govt try to prevent them. The year of the war M. wanted to
go to Egypt but was not allowed.