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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... talks Persian equally well . In Persia , Arabic plays much the part in education which Latin did in Europe before it was quite a dead language . Both he and Abd er - Rahim were loud in complaints of everything Arabian , and in spite of ...
... talks Persian equally well . In Persia , Arabic plays much the part in education which Latin did in Europe before it was quite a dead language . Both he and Abd er - Rahim were loud in complaints of everything Arabian , and in spite of ...
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... sense of propriety which is so characteristic of the Arabs ) , are friendly enough , and if we could talk to them , would , I dare say , be interesting , but on a superficial comparison with the Arabs they seem coarse and boorish .
... sense of propriety which is so characteristic of the Arabs ) , are friendly enough , and if we could talk to them , would , I dare say , be interesting , but on a superficial comparison with the Arabs they seem coarse and boorish .
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... talk to the servants , his fellow Mussulmans , but the servants told him to move on . Among Arabs , to refuse a cup of coffee is the grossest offence , and is almost tantamount to a declaration of war . The Arabs do not understand the ...
... talk to the servants , his fellow Mussulmans , but the servants told him to move on . Among Arabs , to refuse a cup of coffee is the grossest offence , and is almost tantamount to a declaration of war . The Arabs do not understand the ...
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... talks to it with his falsetto voice in a language no Arabian camel could possibly understand . The jokes cut on the Persians by the Arabs never cease from morning till night . The better class of pilgrims , and of course all the women ...
... talks to it with his falsetto voice in a language no Arabian camel could possibly understand . The jokes cut on the Persians by the Arabs never cease from morning till night . The better class of pilgrims , and of course all the women ...
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... talks about six or seven days to Meshhed ; but Wilfrid insists that we are not twenty miles nearer Meshhed than when we left Haïl , as we have been travelling almost due east , instead of nearly due north , and there must be four ...
... talks about six or seven days to Meshhed ; but Wilfrid insists that we are not twenty miles nearer Meshhed than when we left Haïl , as we have been travelling almost due east , instead of nearly due north , and there must be four ...
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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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