Mon Ap 10. [10 April 1911] At 5.30 Temp 47 Bar 29.25. Lovely
morning. Off at 6.35. We passed by the tents of the Hadidiyin and
followed by the valley. At 7.25 the high E point of the Sinjar [Sinjar,
Jabal] was WWN and we were going NNW. At 8.30 we were cutting
across a wide bend of the valley, our route due W; at 11 it was NW.
We crossed a dry ghadir at 12.15 coming from the W - I lunched there
- and at {12.15} 1.45 two small ghadirs from the W with salt pools. The
main stream then seemed to be to the E and I don't think I saw it
again. At 2.30 a dry ghadir from the W. We were going NW most of
the time with perhaps a trifle of inclination to the N. At 3.45 we crossed
a very salt stream coming from W; I think from the Shwebiyyeh (or
Shlebiyyeh spring) and at 3.55 touched a salt stream coming from 'Ain
esh[?] Ghayal. This is the main spring which comes originally out of
the mountain above Murnat, then fresh - it is called Moyek Surrak)
flows by 'Ain el Ghazal and so becomes the Tharthar [Tharthar, Wadi
ath]. At 4.15 we crossed a very small salt stream coming from W and
flowing and we got into camp at 5.45 by the big tell of the Hudeil and
near the 'Ain el Ghazal stream. (I very much doubt whether the 'Ain el
Ghazal stream is the same as the Hudeil.) The Arabs call the Hudeil
stream the Marfu'. Lots of tents of the Imteiwit who are fellahin Arabs of
the lower slopes of the Sinjar. Their fields lie lower down than those of
the Yezid. Fattuh was very ill all day and the way was immensely
long, but we cd not camp because we had no fresh water. We had
filled a girbeh in the morning at some fresh water pools about 2 hrs
above our camp but it was thick and greasy and earthy. We put up
tents as fast as possible and gave Fattuh hot fomentations. Then
prepared a scratch dinner. He was very bad all night.