Seated profile portrait of Salim ... Frame:black

Seated profile portrait of Salim ... Frame:blackSeated profile portrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha, one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, riding a camel during the party's journey from Jabal Sumeini to the port city of Sharjah. Salim bin Ghabaisha, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, kneels in the saddle of his camel [the camel's nose and legs are cut off by the frame]. Salim bin Ghabaisha wears a cartridge belt and leather suspenders over his thobe (long shirt) and has

near Al Qabil

Scattered patches of dry grass grow on the rocky plain

The Mission team called themselves the Mission Marmots

The camel poses in profile facing towards the right

He wears a thobe (long shirt) and ghutra (headscarf)

His hands rest together on his knees and a camel stick leans against his shoulder

View of square multi-storeyed buildings clustered close together in the city of Abha

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the desert north of Shisr well

The three stand in a line holding rifles in their right hands

and round houses in the distance

their families

In the right foreground sailors stand on top of a moored dhow