View of five members of ... Arabia

View of five members of ... ArabiaView of five members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking across low dunes in Liwa oasis. In the central foreground three of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions ride camels across a sand dune dotted with small tufts of grass. On the right two men follow on foot with their camels. In the left background a sand fence made of palm fronds lines the crest of a dune. In the distance sand dunes dotted with a few tufts of qassis (sedge)

The two smaller boys standing on either side of him are his slaves

Full length standing portrait of three boys of the Hamum Bedouin on the Jol of the Raydat al Ma'arah

The house has been built in several sections onto the mountainside

Close-up view of an unfinished reed mat

He wears a khanjar (dagger) with a cartridge belt and suspenders over his thobe (long shirt)

Profile portrait of a man of the Sa'ar Bedouin sitting in front of a cave in the Raydat as Say'ar

Behind them a third man holds a pan of water for some camels standing on the far right

Profile portrait of Salim bin Kabina

Behind them a few trees and bushes grow on the downs

which rises to a crest in the central distance

Sahail bin Tahi kneels in sand in front of a number of water skins lying in the sand

Talung Monastery