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Mat 15th - 05. B. made following report of his ride from Shekh Ali-Kasun to Hama on Mar. 10th. Left Shekh Ali Kasun 1:23 over level country to 2:27 then down gradual slope and over level to side of hill 3:45 when Hama was in sight. Thence to Hama over plain arriving 4:55. Road straight and good pace about 2 1/2 to 2 3/4 miles per hour. Riding all the afternoon with the sun directly in his face.
April 14th - 1905 the "yes's" from Bedwin? have this affix? the old man was deaf. We had sighted same time before the tall Monarch? in Sormin for which we were making but had lost it behind walls of gran? At last we sighted it again and crossing through crops of wheat and ? arrived there at 5:30. It is a white mud town of perhaps 2000 with ? and farm? fields surrounding it. A telegraph line from Ma'arrit in Numan to Alleppo ? by the town that does not tap in. We passed around the town without entering in and at 5:40 left on a good road through cultivated fields arriving Binnish 6:30 average pace all day. B + P left lunch? after us and instead of crossing country from Djubas to Sermin, went on the road around 2 sides of a triangle to teh W. passing through at the Weetirly? apex W wan? Nerab rather small place - mud?.
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April 15th 1905 excited talk, and crowds of the people in the streets. The women ? as in many of one street? fights and riots, being the wildest. There were weird looking tall men? lace? legged to above the knees with elastic white skirts on and long hair projecting on all sides from under little skull caps finely embroidered in many b? colors and carry clubs like bludgeons. I thought they were a lot of fanatics and made trouble for our people who were not? visible anywhere. There seemed to be a labrinth of narrow streets. P+J. rode into the crowd to find out what the matter was. It was over a woman and the people were fighting among themselves. Everything seemed to be mixed up. We rode out of the town by a back way, and discovered that the rest of our party had left 4:05 ? W. through grain fields most of way and over the plain arriving 4:47 Sermeda, an inhabited town on the plains (pop. est. 500) tall town of M? (?) no stops at 5:15 we left the plains and ascended to the W. N. W. a narrow valley winding and very rough + rocky until on a table land we reached 5:45 Barbiska and uninhabitited ruined town class "A" proceeding ? ? in same direction we arrived at camp at Dar Kita 6:10
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