Narrative of a Year's Journey Through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-63)Macmillan, 1865 |
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Narrative of a Year's Journey Through Central and Eastern Arabia ..., Volum 2 William Gifford Palgrave Visualització completa - 1866 |
Narrative of a Year's Journey Through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-63) William Gifford Palgrave Visualització completa - 1865 |
Narrative of a Year's Journey Through Central and Eastern Arabia ..., Volum 2 William Gifford Palgrave Visualització completa - 1866 |
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Aared Abd-Allah Aboo-'Eysa Aboo-Shahr Ajman Alee already amid Arab Arabia Bagdad Bahreyn Barakāt Başrah Bedaa Bedouins Biaḍeeyah boat camels captain Carmathian castle chief coast companions Coran Dahna danger Derey'eeyah desert Djebel Djebel-Akhdar dress dromedaries East eastern Egypt Egyptian Feyşul followed friends governor harbour Ḥaşa heard Hence Hofhoof honour Ibraheem Basha inhabitants Islam island journey Kaseem Katar Kateef Khalid Koweyt land least less Linja look Maḥboob Mahometan Mascat Meanwhile Mecca Menamah merchants Mesandum Mohammed morning mosque mountain Nabathæan native negro neighbours Nejdean Nejed night Omān Omanee once Oneyzah Ormuz palace passed perhaps Persian Gulf population present province reached readers remained Riad round Sa'eed Sa'ood sailors Sedeyr Sharjah ship Shiya'ee Shomer shore side Sonnees Sultan Sultan of Oman Syria Thoweynee took Toweyk town Turkee village Wadi Dowasir Wahhabee walls Yemamah Yemen Yoosef
Passatges populars
Pàgina 300 - Sublime, but neither bleak nor bare Nor misty, are the mountains there, — Softly sublime, profusely fair ! Up to their summits clothed in green And fruitful as the vales between They lightly rise And scale the skies, And groves and gardens still abound, For where no shoot Could else take root The peaks are shelved and terraced round...
Pàgina 138 - The cause of all this was a vast swarm of locusts, here alighted in their northerly wanderings from their birthplace in the Dahna ; their camp extended far and wide, and we had already disturbed their outposts. These insects are wont to settle on the ground after sunset, and there, half stupefied by the night chill, to await the morning rays, which warm them once more into life and movement. This time our dromedaries did the work of the sun, and it would be hard to say which of the two were the most...
Pàgina 177 - Bedouin women would on this kalometer be represented by zero, or at most i°; a degree higher would represent the female sex of Nejed; above them rank the women of Shomer, who are in their turn surmounted by those of Djowf. The fifth or sixth degree symbolizes the fair ones of Hasa; the seventh those of Katar; and lastly, by a sudden rise of ten degrees at least, the seventeenth or eighteenth would denote the pre-eminent beauties of 'Oman.
Pàgina 10 - The first of the great sins is the giving divine honours to a creature.' " ' Of course,' I replied, ' the enormity of such a sin is beyond all doubt But if this be the first, there must be a second ; -what is it ? ' " ' Drinking the shameful,' in English, ' smoking tobacco,' -was the unhesitating answer. " ' And murder, and adultery, and false witness ? ' I suggested. " ' God is merciful and forgiving,' rejoined my friend ; ' that is, these are merely little sins.
Pàgina 141 - Hardly the place of such antiquity, Or note of these great monarchies we find : Only a fading verbal memory, And empty name in writ is left behind : But when this second life and glory fades, And sinks at length in time's obscurer shades, A second fall succeeds, and double death invades.
Pàgina 124 - Soley', and there remain concealed in a given spot, till Aboo-'Eysa should come and pick us up. All this was arranged; at break of dawn Aboo-'Eysa took his leave, and Barakat, Mobeyreek, and myself, were once more high perched on our dromedaries, their heads turned to the south-east, keeping the hillock range between us and Ri'ad, which we saw no more. Our path led us over low undulating ground, a continuation of Wadi Etaneefah, till after about four hours...
Pàgina 131 - Desert,' the bugbear of even the wandering Bedouin, and never traversed by ordinary wayfarers without an apprehension which has too often been justified by fatal incidents. So light are the sands, so capricious the breezes that shape and reshape them daily into unstable hills and valleys, that no trace of preceding travellers remains to those who follow ; while intense heat and glaring light reflected on all sides combine with drought and weariness to confuse and bewilder the adventurer, till he...
Pàgina 132 - For, after about three hours of night travelling, or rather wading, among the sand-waves, till men and beasts alike were ready to sink for weariness, a sharp altercation arose between Aboo-'Eysa and El-Ghannam, each proposing a different direction of march. We all halted a moment, and raised our eyes heavy with drowsiness and fatigue, as if to see which of the contending parties was in the right. It will be long before I forget the impression of that moment.
Pàgina 10 - the enormity of such a sin is beyond all doubt. But, if this be the first, there must be a second ; what is it ? ' ' Drinking the shameful ' (in English, ' Smoking tobacco '•) was the unhesitating answer.
Pàgina 110 - Cachemire shawls and a gold wrought mantle, while man by man followed his red dressed cavaliers, their spears over their shoulders, and their swords hanging down ; a musket too was slung behind the saddle of each warrior; and the sharp dagger of Hareek glittered in every girdle. Next came the common soldiers on camels or dromedaries, some with spears only, some with spears and guns, till the wide square was filled with armed men and gazing spectators, as the whole troop drew up before the great autocrat,...