ABSTRACT
L'ENVOI. A MONTH after my return from the Rub-al-Khali expedition, I was taken ill for the second time with a fever accompanied by a high temperature. The medical officer was suspicious of a pulmonary infection, although blood tests failed to reveal tubercular baccili, and on his advice I was eventually invalided home and, seven months later, out of the Service. Thus I was, unfortunately, prt.vented from making further expeditions into the desert, as I had planned to do. My visits during the following weeks were confmed to official tours to Dubai and Ras-al-Khaimah. Early in June I was informed that a passage to England had been obtained for me in a Short 'C' class flying-boat, and I made arrangements to hand over to my successor, William Quekett, who had arrived at Sharjah a week previously.
