ABSTRACT
Two days later (Thursday, December 6th) we set out from Tarim along the wadi Maseila1 to Seihut, on the coast-a distance of just over two hundred miles. Not content with the overwhelming hospitality they had already shown us, our hosts, the AI Kaf Seiyids, insisted on arranging and paying for the whole of the journey, which we expected to complete in little more than a week. Several of our friends accompanied us as far as Masilat as Silma to speed us on our way, and after a farewell conversation, reminiscent of a station platfornl, we got back into the cars and with waving of handkerchiefs set off towards country till then untrodden by Europeans.
