Personal Narrative of a Year's Journey Through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-63)Macmillan and Company, 1868 - 421 Seiten |
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Aared Abd-Allah Aboo-'Eysa accordingly acquaintance Alee already amid appearance Arab Arabia Bagdad Bahreyn Barakāt Başrah Bedouins belonging Bereydah better camels capital castle Central Arabia character chief coffee companions court Damascus desert distance Djebel Shomer Djowf door dress dromedaries dwelling entered favourable feet Feyşul friends gardens gate guests Ḥa'yel half hand Hașa Hofhoof honour horses inhabitants journey Kaseem Katar Kateef land less look Mahboob matchlocks Meanwhile Mecca Medinah Mohanna morning mosque mountain Na'ib native Nefood negro neighbouring Nejdean Nejed never night noon Oman once Oneyzah ourselves palace passed Persian plain present province quarter reached readers rest Ri'ad road round Sa'ood sand Sedeyr Seyf Sharjah Sherarat Shiya'ee side streets supper Syria Telal tion towers Toweyk town townsmen travellers valley village Wadi Wadi Sirhan Wahhabee walls Yemāmah Yemen Yoosef Zelators
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Seite 396 - 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...
Seite 379 - ... the sun; Where the lawns and pastures be, And the sandhills of the sea; — Where the melting hoar-frost wets The daisy-star that never sets, And wind-flowers, and violets, Which yet join not scent to hue, Crown the pale year...
Seite 111 - all things are caused by God : but what was the particular and immediate occasion ? ' ' Doctor, its cause was God, and secondly, that I ate camel's flesh when I was cold,' rejoins my scientific friend. ' But was there nothing else ? ' I suggest, not quite satisfied with the lucid explanation just given. ' Then, too, I drank camel's milk ; but it was all, I say, from God, doctor,
Seite 282 - 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 3 ' I suggested. " ' God is merciful and forgiving,' rejoined my friend ; ' that is, these are merely little sins.
Seite 26 - And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? Was I ever wont to do so unto thee?
Seite 146 - Eyoon, and what little of its towers and citadel the dense foliage permitted to the eye. Far off on our right, that is, to the west, a large dark patch marked the tillage and plantations which girdle the town of Rass; other villages and hamlets too were thickly scattered over the landscape.
Seite 33 - Ghafil at least had no over-abundance, lamps, and other such like objects. The roof of timber, and flat; the floor was strewed with fine clean sand, and garnished all round alongside of the walls with long strips of carpet, upon which cushions, covered with faded silk, were disposed at suitable intervals.
Seite 367 - Might I venture on the delicate and somewhat invidious task of constructing a " beauty-scale " for Arabia, and for Arabia alone, the Bedouin women would on this kalometer be represented by zero, or at most 1° ; 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,...
Seite 282 - God is merciful and forgiving,' rejoined my friend ; ' that is, these are merely little sins.' " ' Hence two sins alone are great, polytheism and smoking,' I continued, though, hardly able to keep countenance any longer.
Seite 70 - I had ever seen ; a huge mass of crag and stone, piled up in fantastic disorder, with green valleys and habitations intervening. The sun had not yet set when we reached the pretty village of Kenah, amid groves and waters, no more, however, running streams like those of Djowf, but an artificial irrigation by means of wells and buckets. At some distance from the houses stood a cluster of three or four large over-shadowing trees, objects of peasant veneration here, as once in Palestine. The welcome...