View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Size:large

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Size:largeView of Wilfred Thesiger's party resting in camp at Furai well in Sharqiyah Sands. In the left foreground Salim bin Kabina, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani Lineage of Rashid Bedouin, stands in camp beneath a tree. Piles of equipment and blankets lie in the sand, and on the right two more members of the party sit beside a shade canopy erected in a small stand of bushes. In the distance beyond the party's camels are couched in the sand, while further

In the foreground a dog walks down a road towards a tree

Houses at Ghayl bin Yamayn

moored in the Persian Gulf at Bahrain Island

On the left a small rowboat sits in the sand beside the stern of a beached dhow

Al Muwaiji fort sits in the far left background

with a river flowing down the Ramgul valley

Wilfred Thesiger's party hauling water from a well in the Wadi al 'Ayn

holding a large pot

In the background a number of 'arish (palm frond) and adobe houses

Musallim bin Anauf sits on the right

Chakpori in distance on left

In the near distance tufts of vegetation grow in sand rippled by small waves of secondary dunes