Narrative of a Year's Journey Through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-63)Macmillan and Company, 1865 |
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... hand was of a very different stamp from Djowhar ; less pliable , less grateful , but in some respects even more to the purpose of our sojourn in Riad . This was ' Abd - el - Kereem , son of Ibraheem , nearly allied by marriage with the ...
... hand was of a very different stamp from Djowhar ; less pliable , less grateful , but in some respects even more to the purpose of our sojourn in Riad . This was ' Abd - el - Kereem , son of Ibraheem , nearly allied by marriage with the ...
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... hand , came to our abode in person , and claimed the fulfilment of our promise . We rose and accompanied him across the market - place and behind the palace , through neat streets where decorum and gravity were manifestly the order of ...
... hand , came to our abode in person , and claimed the fulfilment of our promise . We rose and accompanied him across the market - place and behind the palace , through neat streets where decorum and gravity were manifestly the order of ...
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... hands with potash or kalee ( whence our own " alkali " ) , the ordinary cleanser of Nejed , and then took place the ... hand at the business , like myself ; and lastly , though not always , opens the breast of his shirt too , to give ...
... hands with potash or kalee ( whence our own " alkali " ) , the ordinary cleanser of Nejed , and then took place the ... hand at the business , like myself ; and lastly , though not always , opens the breast of his shirt too , to give ...
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... hand to a drowning man . So , putting on a profound air , and with a voice of first - class solemnity , he uttered his oracle , that " the first of the great sins is the giving divine honours to a creature . " A hit , I may observe , at ...
... hand to a drowning man . So , putting on a profound air , and with a voice of first - class solemnity , he uttered his oracle , that " the first of the great sins is the giving divine honours to a creature . " A hit , I may observe , at ...
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... , and appealed to experience . But , to my surprise , my friend had experience too on his side , and had ready at hand the most appalling tales of men falling down dead drunk after a single whiff of Ï 2 [ CHAP . X LIFE AT RIAD.
... , and appealed to experience . But , to my surprise , my friend had experience too on his side , and had ready at hand the most appalling tales of men falling down dead drunk after a single whiff of Ï 2 [ CHAP . X LIFE AT RIAD.
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Aared Abd-Allah Aboo-'Eysa Ajman Alee already amid Arab Arabia Bagdad Bahreyn Barakat Basha Başrah Bedaa Bedouins boat camels captain Carmathian castle chief cloth coast companions Coran Crown 8vo Dahna danger Derey'eeyah desert Djebel Djebel-Akhdar dromedaries East eastern Egypt Egyptian Fcap Feyşul followed friends harbour Hareek Ḥaşa heard Hence Hofhoof honour Ibraheem Basha inhabitants Islam island Kaseem Katar Kateef Khalid Koweyt land least less Linja look Mahometan Mascat Mecca Menamah merchants Mesandum Mohammed morning mosque mountain native negro neighbours Nejdean Nejed night Omān Omanee Oneyzah Ormuz palace passed perhaps Persian Gulf population present province reached readers remained Riad round Sa'eed Sa'ood sailors Second Edition Sedeyr SERMONS Sharjah ship Shiya'ee Shomer shore side Sonnees Sultan Sultan of Oman Syria Thoweynee tion took Toweyk town Turkee village vols Wadi Wahhabee walls Yemamah Yemen Yoosef
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