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AS the last meeting of the Royal Geographical Society Mr. J. Theodore Bent gave an account of the archæological tour recently made by him and Mrs. Bent in Southern Arabia. On account of the fanaticism of the people, only one European had previously been able to penetrate to the broad valley of the Hadramuf, which runs for one hundred miles or more parallel to the south coast of Arabia, gathering in tributary valleys from north and south, and carrying their drainage to the sea at Saihut. Opposition to the expedition was offered, as in the case of Mr. Hirsch, by the British officials at Aden, but in spite of this the Bents, accompanied by the accomplished Indian surveyor, Imam Sharif, and by botanical and natural history collectors, travelled in safety without disguise, and, though there were some hostile appearances, without injury through a large tract of unmapped country.
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Exploration of the Hadramut. Nature 50, 90 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/050090a0
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