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Burton Memorial Lecture: Burton and the Rub 'al Khali

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

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Notes of the Quarter
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1931

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References

page 970 note 1 My map of Rub 'al Khali will be published in the September number of the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society.

page 971 note 1 For a detailed account see Among some Unknown Tribes of South Arabia”, Journal of the Anthropological Institute, vol. xiv, 1929, pp. 107 seq.Google Scholar

page 972 note 1 Camels in milk are not suited for long forced marches; at no time had I more than two of them, and my Badus subsisted on hard rations which we carried.

page 975 note 1 salsola sp. (Chenopod) ?

page 979 note 1 It is only within comparatively recent times that the Bautahara would recognize the rabia at all.

page 981 note 1 For details see Muhammadan Law, p. 116, by Vesey-Fitzgerald, S., Oxford University Press, 1931Google Scholar.