Haji Mansur

Three-quarter length seated portrait of Captain Haji Mansur on his dhow (sailboat) in the Persian Gulf near Bahrain.Thesiger met Haji Mansur in Dubai in the spring of 1948. Haji Mansur was the nakhoda, captain or skipper, of the dhow on which Thesiger sailed from Dubai to Bahrain in 1948. Although nearly blind, Haji Mansur could still navigate the coast by listening to the sailors' descriptions of the coastline and then giving orders for charting the boat's direction up the coast (1960: 258).

Reference

Wilfred Thesiger, 1960. Arabian Sands, Longmans, Green and Co Ltd: London.

Photographs of Haji Mansur