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PAGE The charm of Asia—A return to old friends—Desert News—The 1 Palmyrene colony at Damascus—New horses and camels—Mrs. Digby and her husband Mijuel the Mizrab—A blood feud—Abd el-Kader’s life—Midhat Pasha discourses on canals and tramways—He raises a loan
Haïl—The Emir Mohammed Ibn Rashid—His menagerie—His horses—His courtiers—His wives—Amusements of the ladies of Haïl—Their domestic life—An evening at the castle—The telephone.
19. CHAPTER VIII.“We were now traversing an immense ocean of loose reddish sand, unlimited to the eye, and heaped up in enormous ridges running parallel to each other from north to south, undula...
16. CHAPTER V.Kâf and Itheri—More relations—The Wady Sirhán—Locust hunting—Hanna sits down to die—Tales of robbery and violence—We are surprised by a ghazú and made prisoners—Sherarât statist...
20. CHAPTER IX.Jobba—An unpleasant dream—We hear strange tales of Ibn Rashid—Romping in the Nefûd—A last night there—The Zodiacal light—We enter Nejd—The granite range of Jebel Shammar.
13. CHAPTER II.Brotherly offices—We prepare for a campaign—Mohammed Dukhi comes to court—A night robber—We start for Nejd—Tale of a penitent—The duty of revenge—We are entertained by poor rela...
22. CHAPTER XI.THE following is the result of our inquiries made while at Haïl into the political condition and resources of the country. It has no pretension to rigid accuracy, especially in...
18. CHAPTER VII.WE stayed three days with Nassr and his sons, and his sons’ wives and their children, in their quiet farm house. It was a rest which we much needed, and proved besides to be an...
15. CHAPTER IV._December_ 22.—A white frost, and off at half-past seven. Huseyn has sent two men with us, Assad, his head man, and another. We have also letters from him for Ali el-Kreysheh, a...
14. CHAPTER III.Beating about—Bozra—We leave the Turkish dominions—Mohammed vows to kill a sheep—The citadel of Salkhad and the independent Druses—We are received by a Druse chieftain—Historica...
12. CHAPTER I.The charm of Asia—A return to old friends—Desert news—The Palmyrene colony at Damascus—New horses and camels—Mrs. Digby and her husband Mijuel the Mizrab—A blood feud—Abd el-Kad...
17. CHAPTER VI.JÔF is not at all what we expected. We thought we should find it a large cultivated district, and it turns out to be merely a small town. There is nothing at all outside the wal...
11. CHAPTER XI.PORTRAIT OF LADY ANNE BLUNT IN HER ARAB COSTUME _Frontispiece_ (BY MOLONY) PAGE PILGRIM BANNER xxvi SALKHAD 45 RUN TO EARTH 63 SAND-STORM IN THE WADY ER-RAJEL 80 KÂF 83 GHAZÛ IN...
1. CHAPTER I.PAGE The charm of Asia—A return to old friends—Desert News—The 1 Palmyrene colony at Damascus—New horses and camels—Mrs. Digby and her husband Mijuel the Mizrab—A blood feud—Abd...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Mohammed in love—We enter the red sand desert—Geology of 150 the Nefûd—Radi—The great well of Shakik—Old acquaintance—Tales of the Nefûd—The soldiers who perished of thirst—The...
2. CHAPTER II.Brotherly offices—We prepare for a campaign—Mohammed Dukhi 21 comes to court—A night robber—We start for Nejd—Tale of a penitent—The duty of revenge—We are entertained by poor r...
3. CHAPTER III.Beating about—Bozra—We leave the Turkish 46 dominions—Mohammed vows to kill a sheep—The citadel of Salkhad and the independent Druses—We are received by a Druse chieftain—Histor...
5. CHAPTER V.Kâf and Itheri—More relations—The Wady Sirhán—Locust 84 hunting—Hanna sits down to die—Tales of robbery and violence—We are surprised by a ghazu and made prisoners—Sherarat stat...
9. CHAPTER IX.Jobba—An unpleasant dream—We hear strange tales of Ibn 187 Rashid—Romping in the Nefûd—A last night there—The Zodiacal light—We enter Nejd—The granite range of Jebel Shammar
10. CHAPTER X.Haïl—The Emir Mohammed Ibn Rashid—His menagerie—His 213 horses—His courtiers—His wives—Amusements of the ladies of Haïl—Their domestic life—An evening at the castle—The telephone
4. CHAPTER IV.7. CHAPTER VII.6. CHAPTER VI.