View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Miscellaneous

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... MiscellaneousView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through Al Dhafra sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Dhibi well to Al Batin sands. Three of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, tribesmen of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, lead eight camels along the top of a low dune. The two men in front are mounted on camels, a third man is on foot. High above the men the moon rises in the sky. Due to the

that has been propped up on wooden piles which sticking out of the water and sand

The man on the right

Two men with rifles sit on a sand hill in a vast flat plain

In the distance the party's camels graze on scattered vegetation growing on rolling sands

The boy is likely Raikan

He still wears the black skin cloak

possibly a palace

View of a sand dune and a date palm grove in Liwa oasis

In the foreground two Arab men stand in the midst of a group of donkeys carrying heavy loads of wood

According to Stevenson's original note for this photograph (prepared circa 1885)

A peregrine falcon perches on a carved wooden wakir (block) staked in the sand

He is watching the progress of a hippo hunt taking place in a lagoon