Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 290William Blackwood, 1961 - England |
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... Jeddah , fifty miles away , if there were sufficient reason . My first name was a Moslem one . The name Burke ; was it derived from the Arabic word for lightning ? Was I perhaps of Moslem extraction ? No , I had to tell the official ; I ...
... Jeddah , fifty miles away , if there were sufficient reason . My first name was a Moslem one . The name Burke ; was it derived from the Arabic word for lightning ? Was I perhaps of Moslem extraction ? No , I had to tell the official ; I ...
Page 488
... Jeddah , gateway to Mecca . All I needed now was to get to Jeddah , and thence find some method of entering the holy city . Akhund Mirza supplied the link . When I asked him the way to get to Saudi - Arabia , he mentioned that he had a ...
... Jeddah , gateway to Mecca . All I needed now was to get to Jeddah , and thence find some method of entering the holy city . Akhund Mirza supplied the link . When I asked him the way to get to Saudi - Arabia , he mentioned that he had a ...
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... Jeddah , strangely calm , as if some primitive instinct told me that I was safer here , half - buried , and thought ... Jeddah was visible , a cluster of stone houses , some of them with several storeys , some modern buildings , less ...
... Jeddah , strangely calm , as if some primitive instinct told me that I was safer here , half - buried , and thought ... Jeddah was visible , a cluster of stone houses , some of them with several storeys , some modern buildings , less ...
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ALI AND CO BY ROY FORSTER | 96 |
THE SILVER SWAN BY PATRICIA COOK | 192 |
A STORM IN A COFFEECUP BY A DRUMMOND | 384 |
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