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View of sailors on the ... Frame:whiteView of sailors on the deck of a dhow (sailboat) travelling through the Persian Gulf from Dubai to Bahrain Island. On the left a group of men stand alongside a length of rolled sail. The men are tying the sail onto a wooden pole or yard. High above them another sail is filled with wind. In the distance beyond the sea is choppy, with a few whitecaps. This image was taken during Wilfred Thesiger's May 18 28, 1948 journey by dhow from Dubai to Bahrain

In the foreground four men and a young boy (centre) unload couched camels in the midst of a vast flat plain dotted with scattered clumps of vegetation

the son of Sheikh Mahsin of Mabrad of the Amaira tribe

including a man named Kyibu (on right)

Standing full length profile portrait of a thoroughbred camel on an Abu Dhabi island

carrying a young boy on his back

A camel stands in the background

nearby a second moored dhow

Most of them are wearing tall

Rows of square one and two storey buildings made of stone sit overlooking a large square

In the distance beyond Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions walk with their camels in a line across an expanse of sand

A man stands at the centre of the camp amongst scattered saddles

View of a shrine and another building with mountains in the background