Personal Narrative of a Year's Journey Through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-63)Macmillan and Company, 1868 - 421 pages |
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Aared Abd-Allah Abd-el-Mahsin Aboo-'Eysa acquaintance Alee already amid appearance Arab Arabia Bagdad Bahreyn Barakāt Basrah Bedouins Bereydah better camels capital castle Central Arabia character chief coffee companions Damascus desert distance Djebel Shomer Djowf door Dowāsir dress dromedaries dwelling Eysa favourable feet Feyşul friends gardens gate guests Ha'yel half Hamood hand Hareek Hasa Hofhoof honour horses inhabitants journey Ķ'hāwah Kaseem Katar Kateef land less look Ma'an Mahboob matchlocks Meanwhile Mecca Medinah Mohanna morning mosque mountain Na'ib Nefood negro neighbouring Nejdean Nejed never night noon Omān once Oneyzah ourselves palace passed Persian plain present province quarter readers rest Ri'ad road round Sa'ood sand Sedeyr Seyf Sharjah Sherarat Shiya'ee side streets supper Syria Telal tion towers Toweyk town townsmen travellers valley village Wadi Wadi Sirhan Wahhabee walls Yemāmah Yemen Yoosef Zelators
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Page 396 - They scale the skies, And groves and gardens still abound ; - For where no shoot Could else take root, The peaks are shelved and terraced round ; Earthward appear, in mingled growth, The mulberry and maize, — above The trellised vine extends to both The leafy shade they love.
Page 282 - The first of the great sins is the giving divine honours to a creature.' " ' Of course,' I replied, ' the enormity of such a sin is beyond all doubt But if this be the first, there must be a second ; what is it ? ' " ' Drinking the shameful/ in English, ' smoking tobacco/ was the unhesitating answer. " ' And murder, and adultery, and false witness 3 ' I suggested. " ' God is merciful and forgiving,' rejoined my friend ; ' that is, these are merely little sins.
Page 13 - We got up, half dead with exhaustion, and unmuffled our faces. My comrades appeared more like corpses than living men, and so, I suppose, did I. However, I could not forbear, in spite of warnings, to step out and look at the camels ; they were still lying flat as though they had been shot. The air was yet darkish, but before long it brightened up to its usual dazzling clearness. During the whole time that the simoom lasted, the atmosphere was entirely free from sand or dust, so that I hardly know...
Page 26 - And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? Was I ever wont to do so unto thee?
Page 146 - Eyoon, and what little of its towers and citadel the dense foliage permitted to the eye. Far off on our right, that is,, to the west, a large dark patch marked the tillage and plantations which girdle the town of Rass; other villages and hamlets too were thickly scattered over the landscape.
Page 35 - She then said, Know that this lady hath conferred on me a benefit for which I am unable to requite her; for she rescued me from death, by killing my enemy; and I, having seen...
Page 33 - Ghafil at least had no over-abundance, lamps, and other such like objects. The roof of timber, and flat; the floor was strewed with fine clean sand, and garnished all round alongside of the walls with long strips of carpet, upon which cushions, covered with faded silk, were disposed at suitable intervals.
Page 367 - Might I venture on the delicate and somewhat invidious task of constructing a " beauty-scale " for Arabia, and for Arabia alone, the Bedouin women would on this kalometer be represented by zero, or at most 1° ; a degree higher would represent the female sex of Nejed ; above them rank the women of Shomer, who are in their turn surmounted by those of Djowf. The fifth or sixth degree symbolizes the fair ones of Hasa ; the seventh those of Katar ; and lastly, by a sudden rise of ten degrees at least,...
Page 24 - What will we do ?" was his unhesitating answer, " whv, we will go up to God and salute him, and if he proves hospitable (gives us meat and tobacco), we will stay with him ; if otherwise, we will mount our horses and ride off.
Page 282 - God is merciful and forgiving,' rejoined my friend ; ' that is, these are merely little sins.' " ' Hence two sins alone are great, polytheism and smoking,' I continued, though, hardly able to keep countenance any longer.