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Page ix
... Sheykh Hajellàn . CHAPTER II . THE MOUNTAIN OF EDOM ; ARABIA PETRAEA . Jardanîa . Beduin riders . Mount Seir , or Jebel Sherra , is high and cold . The Flint Land , or Arabia Petraea . The Nomads of J. Sherra . Mount Seir a land of ...
... Sheykh Hajellàn . CHAPTER II . THE MOUNTAIN OF EDOM ; ARABIA PETRAEA . Jardanîa . Beduin riders . Mount Seir , or Jebel Sherra , is high and cold . The Flint Land , or Arabia Petraea . The Nomads of J. Sherra . Mount Seir a land of ...
Page x
... Sheykh Motlog . The kella . Hejra of the old geogra- phers . Fehját . Emporium of the gold and frankincense road . Koran fable of the Thamudites . Frankincense found . A lost pilgrim derwish arrives . Beduin music . Miseries of the Haj ...
... Sheykh Motlog . The kella . Hejra of the old geogra- phers . Fehját . Emporium of the gold and frankincense road . Koran fable of the Thamudites . Frankincense found . A lost pilgrim derwish arrives . Beduin music . Miseries of the Haj ...
Page xiii
... 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 . Hirfa ...
... 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 . Hirfa ...
Page xiv
... sheykh and a townswoman . The moon eclipsed . Ibn Rashid's Resident . Stately carriage of the Shammar Princes . The slave trade . A building of old Teyma . Inscription . The Haddaj . The Suany . Sleyman and the hareem of his household ...
... sheykh and a townswoman . The moon eclipsed . Ibn Rashid's Resident . Stately carriage of the Shammar Princes . The slave trade . A building of old Teyma . Inscription . The Haddaj . The Suany . Sleyman and the hareem of his household ...
Page xv
... sheykh of wild beasts . The jerboa . The wabbar . The wolf eaten by the Aarab , and the hyena . The wild goat . The gazelle . The antelope . Is the wothŷhi the unicorn ? Scorpions . The leopard . The wild cat . Buzzards , hawks , and ...
... sheykh of wild beasts . The jerboa . The wabbar . The wolf eaten by the Aarab , and the hyena . The wild goat . The gazelle . The antelope . Is the wothŷhi the unicorn ? Scorpions . The leopard . The wild cat . Buzzards , hawks , and ...
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