. The heart of Arabia, a record of travel and exploration . m al Khuraisan, which flows alongthe road to Hufuf ; its waters are beUeved to possesspecuUar chemical properties harmless to natural dyes butunerringly destructive of sjnthetic imitations ; the blackmantles of Hasa manufacture are tested by dipping in thisstream and, to judge by the black colour of its water, it ||must have saved many a would-be purchaser from a badbargain. (6), (7) and (8) The Mutaifi, the Julaijila and theJauhariyya, of which the first two irrigate the villages ofthe same names, while the third waters the palm-grov
. The heart of Arabia, a record of travel and exploration . m al Khuraisan, which flows alongthe road to Hufuf ; its waters are beUeved to possesspecuUar chemical properties harmless to natural dyes butunerringly destructive of sjnthetic imitations ; the blackmantles of Hasa manufacture are tested by dipping in thisstream and, to judge by the black colour of its water, it ||must have saved many a would-be purchaser from a badbargain. (6), (7) and (8) The Mutaifi, the Julaijila and theJauhariyya, of which the first two irrigate the villages ofthe same names, while the third waters the palm-grovesknown as BattaUyya near Hufuf ; I was unable to visitany of these. And finally (9) and (10) the Wajjaj andBarabar, whose sources I did not visit, and are, 1 believe,situated somewhere in the northern end of the western Kut or citadel of Hufuf constitutes, as I have alreadynoted, a self-contained unit complete in all essentials, withaccess to the outside by the northern gate and to the restof the city by a gate of massive dimensions in the wall. z < 2i < z THE THRESHOLD OF ARABIA 35 aligning the Suq al Khamis. Within the former gate is aspacious Baraha or camping-ground, on one side of whichand adjacent to the gate stands a fort-like building, nowused, I was told, exclusively as a jail. On the other sideUes the inner keep, as it were, of the citadel, a spaciousthick-walled fortress, in the midst of which rises the splendidmosque of Ibrahim Pasha, whose great dome and gracefulminaret, blending the sahent features of Byzantine andSaracen architecture, contribute to make it without excep-tion the most beautiful building in aU Central and EasternArabia. We were naturally very anxious to examine thisthing of beauty at closer quarters than was possible fromthe roof of our apartments and other distant vantage points,and not only were we anxious to visit the mosque, but itseemed to us also very desirable that we should acquire atfirst hand some idea of the miHtary asse
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