A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the Cradle of the Arab Race: A Visit to the Court of the Arab Emir, and "our Persian Campaign"., Volume 2J. Murray, 1881 - Arabian Peninsula |
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... side the battlemented walls and towers of Haïl , with the palace rising out of a dark mass of palms almost black in the sunlight ; on the other the pilgrim camp , a parti - coloured mass of tents , blue , green , red , white , with the ...
... side the battlemented walls and towers of Haïl , with the palace rising out of a dark mass of palms almost black in the sunlight ; on the other the pilgrim camp , a parti - coloured mass of tents , blue , green , red , white , with the ...
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... sides . These are perhaps a thousand feet in height , and run down sheer into the sandy floor of the wadys , so that one is reminded in looking at them of that valley of diamonds where the serpents lived , and down which the merchants ...
... sides . These are perhaps a thousand feet in height , and run down sheer into the sandy floor of the wadys , so that one is reminded in looking at them of that valley of diamonds where the serpents lived , and down which the merchants ...
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... side , the household furniture . The camels are the property of Bedouins , mostly Shammar , but many of them Dafir , Sherârat , or Howeysin . They follow their animals on foot , and are at perpetual wrangle with the pilgrims , although ...
... side , the household furniture . The camels are the property of Bedouins , mostly Shammar , but many of them Dafir , Sherârat , or Howeysin . They follow their animals on foot , and are at perpetual wrangle with the pilgrims , although ...
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... side being always steep , the wind side rounded . We gradually ascended now through broken ground to the edge of a level gravelly plain , beyond which about four miles distant we could see the red line of the real Nefûd . We had nearly ...
... side being always steep , the wind side rounded . We gradually ascended now through broken ground to the edge of a level gravelly plain , beyond which about four miles distant we could see the red line of the real Nefûd . We had nearly ...
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... side - on to the wind . They can steer themselves about as much as flying fish do , and can alight when they like ; in fact , they very seldom let themselves be drifted against men or camels , and seem able to cal- culate exactly the ...
... side - on to the wind . They can steer themselves about as much as flying fish do , and can alight when they like ; in fact , they very seldom let themselves be drifted against men or camels , and seem able to cal- culate exactly the ...
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Aared Abdallah Abeyeh Ánazeh Ancient Arabia Arabs Awwad Bactiari Bagdad Bebahan Bedouins Beneyeh Bushire camels camp canora Crown 8vo Dafir delúl Deriyeh desert Dilam district Dizful Emir Emir's English escort Euphrates Fcap feet Feysul fuljes gallop Ghafil ghazú ground Haïl Hajji Mohammed Hamád Hasa Hauran hills History horsemen horses hour Huseyn hyæna Ibn Arûk Ibn Rashid Ibn Saoud Ibrahim Ibrahim Pasha Illustrations Jebel Aja Jebel Shammar Jôf journey Kerbela Kerim Koli Khan Laam Lady Anne Blunt look mare MESHARI Meshhed miles Mizban's Mohammed's morning Muttlak Nefûd Nejd Nejef night o'clock ourselves Pasha pasture Persian pilgrimage pilgrims plain Portrait Post 8vo Ram Hormuz rest Riad riding river road sand seems sent servants Seyd Abbas Sheykh Shustar Sirdal Student's tent Tigris tion to-day town travelling tribe Turkish valley village vols Wady Sirhan Wahhabi Wilfrid Woodcuts
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