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Page xii
... fire . The robbers ' tribe guessed by their speech . W. Aly wavering : alarms . New guests of the kella . Ibn Rashid's gift - mare . The Jurdy arrive . Words of their chief . Ally fruit - sellers . Beduins would pilfer the camp . Méhsan ...
... fire . The robbers ' tribe guessed by their speech . W. Aly wavering : alarms . New guests of the kella . Ibn Rashid's gift - mare . The Jurdy arrive . Words of their chief . Ally fruit - sellers . Beduins would pilfer the camp . Méhsan ...
Page xiii
... fire . The Sheykh's coffee - fire . Aarab signifies with them the people ' . The Arabian nomad booth . The household stuff . God's guests . Zeyd's tale . Zeyd's tribe . The Turkish and English regarded as tribes . Zeyd's marriages ...
... fire . The Sheykh's coffee - fire . Aarab signifies with them the people ' . The Arabian nomad booth . The household stuff . God's guests . Zeyd's tale . Zeyd's tribe . The Turkish and English regarded as tribes . Zeyd's marriages ...
Page xiv
... fire . The coffee - hall . The viol forbidden in the estates of Ibn Rashîd . Rahŷel , marriage of a Beduwy sheykh and a townswoman . The moon eclipsed . Ibn Rashid's Resident . Stately carriage of the Shammar Princes . The slave trade ...
... fire . The coffee - hall . The viol forbidden in the estates of Ibn Rashîd . Rahŷel , marriage of a Beduwy sheykh and a townswoman . The moon eclipsed . Ibn Rashid's Resident . Stately carriage of the Shammar Princes . The slave trade ...
Page xv
... fire . Some learn English words . Zeyd would give one of his wives in marriage to the Nasrâny , his brother . Marriage in the desert . Herding maidens in the desert . The desert day till the evening . Desert land of high plains and ...
... fire . Some learn English words . Zeyd would give one of his wives in marriage to the Nasrâny , his brother . Marriage in the desert . Herding maidens in the desert . The desert day till the evening . Desert land of high plains and ...
Page xix
... fire . A troubled morrow . A wayfaring man may break his fast . Hásan . Ajeyl . Visiting the sick . The custom of spitting upon sore eyes . Khálaf sheykh of Teyma . Lenten breakfast after sunset . Lenten supper at midnight . A Beduin's ...
... fire . A troubled morrow . A wayfaring man may break his fast . Hásan . Ajeyl . Visiting the sick . The custom of spitting upon sore eyes . Khálaf sheykh of Teyma . Lenten breakfast after sunset . Lenten supper at midnight . A Beduin's ...
Contents
THE PERAEA AMMON AND MOAB | 1 |
CHAPTER II | 28 |
CHAPTER IV | 85 |
CHAPTER V | 119 |
CHAPTER VI | 150 |
Appendix to Chaps IV V VI | 181 |
Doughty at Medáin Sâlih translated by M Ernest Renan Membre | 188 |
CHAPTER VIII | 215 |
CHAPTER XIII | 356 |
CHAPTER XIV | 385 |
Appendix to Chap XIV | 411 |
CHAPTER XVI | 436 |
CHAPTER XVII | 462 |
CHAPTER XVIII | 486 |
CHAPTER XIX | 517 |
CHAPTER XX | 539 |
CHAPTER IX | 242 |
CHAPTER X | 271 |
CHAPTER XI | 301 |
CHAPTER XII | 330 |
CHAPTER XXI | 566 |
Evening with the Emir Hamûd Abeyds kahwa An apostate | 594 |
Appendix to Vol I | 620 |
THE PREFACE vii | |
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Common terms and phrases
Aarab ancient answered Arabia Arabs asked beasts Beduins Beduw better booths brought called camels caravan cattle coffee coming commonly Damascus dates desert drink el-Ally entered eyes father feet fire give ground guests half hand Harra head hear heard heart household human hundred journey kella Khalil kind land light lives look Lord Medáin menzil miles mind Mohammed mountain Nasrâny natural nearly never night nomads Pasha passed Persian persons plain poor received religion remain riding rising road rocks ruins sand seen sheykh side standing stones stranger Syria taken tell tent Teyma thee things thou thought told town tribe Ullah valley village walls wandering wellah wife wild wilderness young Zeyd