that part of Khatam is to be found at Annex Several new wellshave been dug in recent years and a flourishing market garden atJahr supplies vegetables to Abu Dhabi town and Buraimi. About 30families (mainly Ahbab and Rashia) live there permanently.The Dhafrah10. The whole area between the Sabkhat Matti and Khatam and fromthe sea to the Rub' al-khāli is known as the Dhafrah. It is,however, sub-divided. The coastal sub-divisions of Taff-Bainunahand Taff have already been described. South of Taff-Bainunah, andrunning inland for about 40 miles, is Ba inunah. To the south-eastof this is Liwa, which is separated from Taff on the north byBitānan, Qūfa, and Sarūg, and from the Rub' al-Khāli on the southby Kidan and Batin, which should, perhaps, properly be regarded asintegral with Liwa. To the east of Liwa, is the Ramlat al-Hamra',bounded on the north by Khatam, on the south by the Rub' al-Khali,and on the east by the Dhāhirah district of Muscat and 'Omān.In the Dhafrah all the wells are free, although most of the tribesor sections have a well or wells they frequent in preference toany others. The only exceptions to this rule are the wells inLiwa and Batin, which belong to one or other of the settlements in
Liwa. The desert regions of the Dhafrah are dependent, to some
degree, upon the Liwa oasis, and also fall with in the administrative
control of the Abu Dhabi officials of that oasis. Topographically,
the deserts are contiguous to the oasis, and are frequented, at
various times of the year, by the inhabitants of the oasis. Thus,
it is logical first to consider the oasis itself, and then to
consider the adjacent deserts of the Dhafrah which are dependent
upon it.
11. Liwa (or Al Jiwa) is an oasis in the desert, some 50 miles
south of the central point of the Trucial Coast, between the Qatarand 'Oman (Musandam) peninsulae. It extends for a distance of
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