Sat Feb 18. [18 February 1911] Violent wind all night and blew all day. 5 o'clock Temp 37 Bar 27. Had the greatest difficulty in getting the Sheikh to leave his coffee fire and finally pulled out his tent pegs and brought his roof about his ears. Call upon the Prophet! Where are the witd? Off 5.50. The wells of Melussa [Bir al Mulusi] lie to the N and we did not see them. 'Anz el Melussa, a hill in the valley of M (which runs to Ka'ra) to the N 7.30. Dropped about 200 ft through tells and volcanic stones into the first of the many widyan going to Ka'ra 7.45. At 9 we reached the site of a Turbeh, shughl el awwal said 'Ali and it probably was for the Arabs put no mark over their dead. A lot of uncut stones round it, but no sign of building. In a water course near I found a bulbocodium flowering, white and pale mauve. Halt for 10 min. because one of the Nagas biddha tilid. Crossed a ridge and dropped into the W. el Gharri [Agharri, Sha'ib al[?]] at 10.45. Got to the dry sail at the further side at 11.35 and stayed till 12 lunching while the naga ta walladat. They killed the foal and kept it carefully from her sight so that she shd not mourn for it which she wd have done for days. She went off contentedly and eat withered grass. We were riding all day a little to the S of E. Nameless valley 1.10. Passed to the N of the Jebel ed Dabi' [Arabic characters] 1.45 Wady el 'Audia[?] 2.45. The good well of Al Mat now lay 2 hours away to S of us. The 'Audiya runs to Jebel Afa'if which is about 4 hrs to the N. It lies in the Jauf of Ka'ra and is therefore I think placed too far to the S in the map. At 3.40 we got into the deep valley of 'Ajarmiyyeh and marching due N came into camp at 4 in a hail storm. Muhiyy ed Din was held up a year or two ago by a ghazu while he was riding with the sa'i through one of these valleys. They took all the food they had, for they were starving, but left them a little tobacco. His money they did not take saying they had no need of it. So he and the sa'i made the best speed and rode to Muheiwir [Muhaywir] where they watered and so on to Kubeisa [Kubaysah] where they arrived starving. But this year the desert is quite [sic] owing to Sami P. and Nazim P. The Arabs are frightened. Muhiyy ed Din sometimes spends as much as £T1100 in buying sheep and camels. Last year he bought 1300 lambs and 40 camels. Temp at 5 41? and Bar 27.2. When we started the Sheikh said "Ya sitt, gom ana wiyyah." It was because I had ramait the tent. This is a great offence, not to be condoned by the gift of a mare.