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Profile portrait of Salim bin ... Frame:noneProfile portrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha and Salim bin Kabina, two of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions, standing on a rock outcrop in Ras Al Khaimah Emirate. Salim bin Ghabaisha, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of the Rashid Bedouin, stands on the left, leaning on a rifle. Salim bin Kabina, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of the Rashid Bedouin, stands on the right, carrying a rifle over his shoulder. Each man wears a khanjar (dagger)

as evidenced by his blocked nostrils

The badan is beached in the sand with its bow pointing towards ocean on the left

where Wilfred Thesiger grew up

Portrait of a boy

and many of the ship's ribs stick out over the boat's hull

during a voyage from Sharja to Bahrain

Sho Village and the Western Gateway or Pargo Kaling

a member of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party

In background small shrubs and bushes grow on a flat expanse of sand sitting below a sky dotted with a few fluffy clouds

belonging to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party

riding camels in the vicinity of the Ramlat Unayq

Musallim bin Tafl