A Journal Or Account of William Daniel, His Late Expedition Or Undertaking to Go from London to Surrat. in India: Giving a Short But Impartial Relation of the Dangers, Distresses, Fatigues, and Hinderances Happening to Him During the Said Expedition Till His Return to England |
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Page 69 - All this my captain at his return gave me an acco;ant of. And not only of this, but the more renowned city of Mecca, which is the greatest and most frequented of all Mahometan mosques, it standing in the midst of the city and being conspicuous at a great distance by its roof, which is raised...
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Page 79 - Drei, which was very strong and rich, the walls of which noi inferior to the Tower of London; all pilgrims which come there being drawn up by a pulley, fearing very much the insult of the Arabs: from •which convent pilgrims go .up to the top of the mountain, by fourteen hundred steps, cut out in the rock, by the order, and at the charge, of St. Helena. At...
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