DARKEST ARABIA.
QUEST OF LONG-LOST TRIBE
Captain Choesman, formerly private' secretary to Sir Percy Cox in Bagdad, has just returned to London from an expedition in the unknown territories of the Sultan of Nejd, in Mid-Arabia, He penetrated the Great South Desert from the north as far as the mysterious Oasis of Jabrin,' the position of which (says Reuter) has Ioi)g been a matter of speculation to geographers. He is the. first European to resell this oasis.
The Bedouin people who inhabit this'almost inaccessible region are the Ah Murra. a savage and little-known tribe, virtually pagan, possibly the survivors of the pre-Arab population. Tliev are unashamedly predatory, and their domestic utensils and clothing are little in advance of those ef the Stone Age. A ruined site was visited near the Persian Gulf, supposed to be that of tlm long-lost Phoenician port of Jerra, mentioned by Ptolmv in his Gazetteer 1800 years ago.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 September 1924, Page 9
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152DARKEST ARABIA. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 September 1924, Page 9
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