An Exploration in the Hadhramaut and Journey to the Coast

T3EF0RE saying anything about southern Arabia to-night I should like -L?to express my deep thanks to your Society. It was your generosity together with that of Viscount Wakefield, of Mr. Louis Clarke in Cambridge, and of the Ashmolean Museum, which alone made excavation possible in the Hadhramaut. And I should like to add a word of grateful thanks to all the British authonties in Aden and Mukalla, who assisted us in every way You have been told of the scientific results of this expedition, a subject on which I will therefore not touch, beyond reminding you that this was the second efiort at antiquarian research in the Hadhramaut?an expedition had been sent from Egypt to south Arabia under Dr. Huzayyin the year before? and the first attempt at settled excavation there. You have heard how Miss Caton-Thompson laid bare a small temple to the Moon God, a house and two caves used by pre-Islamic people for their burials; how Miss Gardner mapped and examined the ancient irrigation system, discovered the fossilized remnants of palaeolithic vegetation in tufa deposits of the high ravines that drained into our wadi, and examined the geology of the district, investigating facts interesting and relevant to the early history of mankind in this region. 1 his was the important work of our expedition, and has already been described to you

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