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Page ix
... tribe . The land wasted by Israel . The ancient people were stone- builders . Kerak visited . Beny Hameydy tribe . Memorial heaps of stones in the wilderness . Wady el - Hâsy . The deep limestone valleys descending to the Dead Sea ...
... tribe . The land wasted by Israel . The ancient people were stone- builders . Kerak visited . Beny Hameydy tribe . Memorial heaps of stones in the wilderness . Wady el - Hâsy . The deep limestone valleys descending to the Dead Sea ...
Page xii
... 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 the Bountiful . The ...
... 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 the Bountiful . The ...
Page xiii
... tribe . The Turkish and English regarded as tribes . Zeyd's marriages . Hirfa . Hirfa's flight . Howeytát camel - brokers . Their Beduin nation . Keyif . Nomad colonists . Are the Howeytát Nabateans ? The rafik . Hirfa led home again ...
... tribe . The Turkish and English regarded as tribes . Zeyd's marriages . Hirfa . Hirfa's flight . Howeytát camel - brokers . Their Beduin nation . Keyif . Nomad colonists . Are the Howeytát Nabateans ? The rafik . Hirfa led home again ...
Page xiv
... tribe's loghra . Their malice . The Semites cannot blaspheme divine things . Herdmen's grossness in the Semitic nature . Their male- diction . Their oaths . Their magnanimity not to the death . Zeyd proffers to clear himself by an oath ...
... tribe's loghra . Their malice . The Semites cannot blaspheme divine things . Herdmen's grossness in the Semitic nature . Their male- diction . Their oaths . Their magnanimity not to the death . Zeyd proffers to clear himself by an oath ...
Page xv
... tribe is divided into two camps . The samhh plant . wilderness . The Nasrâny in danger of a serpent . The ligature unknown . One seeks medicine who had sucked the poisoned wound of a serpent . Blood stones , snake stones , precious ...
... tribe is divided into two camps . The samhh plant . wilderness . The Nasrâny in danger of a serpent . The ligature unknown . One seeks medicine who had sucked the poisoned wound of a serpent . Blood stones , snake stones , precious ...
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