. The heart of Arabia, a record of travel and exploration . ll and rise. The Arab is a true optimist, forgetfulof past pain, depressed by present troubles while theylast, and for the future imagining naught but undreamed-ofgood ; hat tul ^ they would say of the desert herbs ofspring, eking out the imperfect instrument of their desertspeech with gestures conjuring up in my mind visions ofimpenetrable forests of pampas grasses far exceeding theutmost possibihties of a perfect Rahi ; doomed to dis-appointment in either case they magnify the camelsspringtide hump as they do mans body come to Parad
. The heart of Arabia, a record of travel and exploration . ll and rise. The Arab is a true optimist, forgetfulof past pain, depressed by present troubles while theylast, and for the future imagining naught but undreamed-ofgood ; hat tul ^ they would say of the desert herbs ofspring, eking out the imperfect instrument of their desertspeech with gestures conjuring up in my mind visions ofimpenetrable forests of pampas grasses far exceeding theutmost possibihties of a perfect Rahi ; doomed to dis-appointment in either case they magnify the camelsspringtide hump as they do mans body come to Paradise;years of bitter experience dull not their visions of an ever-imminent camels paradise; can we then wonder if nothingon earth will shake their tenacious faith in the Paradise ofMan ? A march of eight miles brought us to a narrow stripof drift-sand, a miniature Nafud called Dughaibis, run-ning diagonally across the plain from the neighbourhoodof the Idhnain Shamal peaks south-eastward to join the ^ Pronounced hdtul for hadhaltul —thus long, thus THE PILGRIM ROAD 133 Dalqan Nafucl near its southern extremity. The sight ofdry bushes of Arta, the best of the desert fuel plants, pro-duced an outcry for a halt, but the morning was yet youngand I insisted on the continuance of the march ; it tookus but five minutes to cross the sand strip, and again weplodded on over the plain towards our still distant noon we halted in mid-plain to break our fast ; at 2 ,having covered some twenty miles, we passed out of theHadba Qidhla plain into the low tumbled foothills of theArdh ridge at the confluence of two torrent-beds, ShaibHarmaliyya, rising in the bosom of the Idhnain Shamaland issuing into the plain some miles to the north of thispoint, and Shaib Quaiiyya traversing the Ardh barrierfrom west to east. The combined shaibs run down underthe single name of Harmaliyya southward to the trunkchannel of Wadi Sirra. We now followed the scrub - covered bed of ShaibQuaiiyya,
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