Landscape at Habarut wells. View ... Alfred Maudslay

Landscape at Habarut wells. View ... Alfred MaudslayLandscape at Habarut wells. View onto a plain with trees and a herd of camels. Mountains in the background. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.

and is dotted with clumps of vegetation

is Sheikh Mubarak bin Mohammed Al Nahyan

a samurai and officer (performing the function of deputy secretary) on the 1864 Ikeda mission to France

among papyrus stalks in a swamp

tracks run across the sand to where three of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions ride in a line between rolling sand dunes

leading his camels

Three men from Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party ride camels past a weathered 'arish hut made of palm fronds (locally called saaf) sitting on the left

where the British Mission under Sir Basil Gould was staying

a rock escarpment

A man is sitting at the water's edge

Potala on the right

In the far background people work on one of the beached dhows