Category: Travel Writing
PAGE Nejd horses—Their rarity—Ibn Saoud’s stud—The stables at 1 Haïl—Some notes of individual mares—The points of a Nejd head—The tribes in the Nefûds and their horses—Meaning of the term “Nejdi”—Recipe for training
THE rest of our journey was little better than a feverish dream of heat and flies. After a day spent at Bebahan, where we were hospitably entertained by the Shahzade, Ahtesham e...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Mohammed loses his head—A ride with the Emir—The mountain fortress of Agde—Farewell to Haïl—We join the Persian Haj—Ways and manners of the pilgrims—A clergyman of Medina.
22. CHAPTER V._Friday_, _April_ 11.—It would be easy to quote unlucky starts on Fridays, and I am afraid this is one. Wilfrid is ill again, a passing fatigue we hope, from loading the camels...
15. CHAPTER XV.Muttlak Ibn Arûk and the Ketherin—Their horses—We are adopted by the tribe—The Haj again—Ambar sends round the hat—A forced march of one hundred and seventy miles—Terrible loss...
17. CHAPTER I.New plans and new preparations—We leave Bagdad for Persia—Wild boar hunting in the Wudian—A terrible accident—We travel with a holy man—Camps of the Beni Laam—An alarm.
14. CHAPTER XIV._February_ 6.—We are tired of loitering with the Haj, and besides, do not care to see more of Ibn Rashid, who is expected to-day. It is always a good rule not to outstay your we...
18. CHAPTER II._March_ 29.—The event of last night, though in truth it was less alarming than it seemed, made us anxious not to remain longer at Mizban’s than could be helped. Wilfrid accordin...
21. CHAPTER IV._April_ 4.—Dizful, though still alive with a population of 30,000 persons, and a certain amount of traffic, for it is the corn market of the tribes westwards on the Ottoman fron...
12. CHAPTER XII.Nejd horses—Their rarity—Ibn Saoud’s stud—The stables at Haïl—Some notes of individual mares—The points of a Nejd head—The tribes in the Nefûds and their horses—Meaning of the t...
16. CHAPTER XVI.MESHHED ALI (the shrine of Ali), or Nejef as it is more correctly called, is an ideal Eastern City, standing as it does in an absolute desert and bare of all surroundings but it...
20. did. The raft was hardly eight feet square, a rough framework oftamarisk poles lashed together on twenty goat skins. Our luggage went first, with Hajji Mohammed perched on the top of it, booted and cloaked, and loaded with gun and cartridge...
19. CHAPTER III.“Henceforth in safe assurance may ye rest, Having both found a new friend you to aid, And lost an old foe that did you molest, Better new friend than an old foe is said.”
11. CHAPTER VI.A last rush through the sun—We arrive at Dilam on the 223 Persian Gulf—Politics of the Gulf—A journey “in extremis”—Bashire—The End APPENDICES. NOTES ON THE PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY O...
1. CHAPTER XII.PAGE Nejd horses—Their rarity—Ibn Saoud’s stud—The stables at 1 Haïl—Some notes of individual mares—The points of a Nejd head—The tribes in the Nefûds and their horses—Meaning o...
4. CHAPTER XV.Muttlak Ibn Arûk and the Ketherin—Their horses—We are 73 adopted by the tribe—The Haj again—Ambar sends round the hat—A forced march of one hundred and seventy miles—Terrible lo...
2. CHAPTER XIII.Mohammed loses his head—A ride with the Emir—The mountain 18 fortress of Agde—Farewell to Haïl—We join the Persian Haj—Ways and manners of the pilgrims—A clergyman of Medina
6. CHAPTER I.New plans and new preparations—We leave Bagdad for 113 Persia—Wild boar hunting in the Wudian—A terrible accident—We travel with a holy man—Camps of the Beni Laam—An alarm
3. CHAPTER XIV.We go in search of adventures—Taybetism—An hyena hunt—How 49 to cook locusts—Hawking—The reservoirs of Zobeydeh—Tales and legends—A _coup de théâtre_—Mohammed composes a kasid
7. CHAPTER II.10. CHAPTER V.8. CHAPTER III.5. CHAPTER XVI.9. CHAPTER IV.