The following table of our movements or position-at-night is from my skeleton diary. Accident, preoccupations, and prudence were responsible for gaps. My book follows the strict order of time: but leaves out many by-plays. The dates here do not altogether agree with its text. Memory sometimes assists me with moonlight, on a new-moon night: and I have preferred memory to the calendar. Arabic names are spelt anyhow, to prevent my appearing an adherent of one of the existing “systems of transliteration.”
1917
Jan. 1. Nakhl Mubarak. Jan. 2. Nagb Dhifran. Jan. 3. Yenbo. Jan. 14. In Suva , etc. Jan. 17. Bir Waheidi. Jan. 18. Semna. Jan. 19. Harrat Gelib. Jan. 20. Wadi Dhulm. Jan. 21. Abu Zereibat. Jan. 23. Kurna. Jan. 24. Habban. Jan. 25. Wejh. Jan. 27. In Hardinge . Jan. 28. Cairo, etc. Feb. 1. Suez Feb. 4. In Arethusa . Feb. 6. Wejh, etc. Feb. 20. In Arethusa . Feb. 22. Cairo, etc.