Category: Travel Writing
NIGHT MARCH IN THE DESERT FRONTISPIECE FACING PAGE THE COFFEE HILLS OF YEMEN 19 VIEW OF EL-MEDINA 39 A VALLEY IN OMAN 51 THE RUINS OF NAKAB EL-HADJAR, IN HADRAMAUT 59 VIEW OF MEDINA FROM THE WEST 69 CAMP AT MOUNT ARAFAT 77 COSTUME OF PILGRIMS TO MECCA 81 WILLIAM GIFFORD PALGRA...
“AT our first appearance a slight stir takes place. The customary salutations are given and returned by those nearest at hand; and a small knot of inquisitive idlers, come up to...
16. CHAPTER XII.ANOTHER stage of our way. From Gaza to Ma’an, from Ma’an to the Djowf, from the Djowf to Ha’yel, three such had now been gone over, not indeed without some fatigue or discomfort...
12. CHAPTER VIII.MR. WILLIAM GIFFORD PALGRAVE, son of Sir Francis Palgrave, the historian, performed, in 1862–63, a journey in Arabia, which gives us the first clear and full account of the inte...
18. CHAPTER XIV.“BARAKAT and myself stopped our dromedaries a few minutes on the height to study and enjoy this noble prospect, and to forget the anxiety inseparable from a first approach to th...
11. CHAPTER VII.CAPTAIN RICHARD F. BURTON, the discoverer of the great Lake Tanganyika, in Central Africa, first became known to the world by his daring and entirely successful visit to Medina...
13. CHAPTER IX.THE elder of the two cavaliers who welcomed the travellers proved to be Ghafil-el-Haboob, the chief of the most important family of the Djowf. Ghafil, and also his companion, Da...
20. CHAPTER XVI.“OUR stay at Hofhoof was very pleasant and interesting, not indeed through personal incidents and hair-breadth escapes—of which we had our fair portion at Ri’ad and elsewhere—bu...
21. CHAPTER XVII.IN 1878–79, sixteen years after Palgrave’s journey, Lady Anne Blunt, with her husband and several native servants, accomplished a journey, which, in many respects was more remar...
19. CHAPTER XV.“FOR a foreigner to enter Ri’ad is not always easy, but to get away from it is harder still; Reynard himself would have been justly shy of venturing on this royal cave. There ex...
17. CHAPTER XIII.TWO roads lay before us. The shorter, and for that reason the more frequented of the two, led southeast-by-east through Woshem and Wady Haneefah to Ri’ad. But this track passed...
9. CHAPTER V.PERHAPS the most satisfactory account of the interior of Oman—the southeastern portion of Arabia—has been given by Lieutenant Wellsted. While in the Indian Navy he was employed...
7. CHAPTER III.IN 1760 the Danish government decided to send an expedition to Arabia and India, for the purpose of geographical exploration. The command was given to Carsten Niebuhr, a native...
8. CHAPTER IV.BURCKHARDT, to whom we are indebted for the first careful and complete description of the holy cities of Arabia, was a native of Lausanne, in Switzerland. After having been educ...
14. CHAPTER X.“OUR way was now to the southeast, across a large plain varied with sand-mounds and covered with the ghada-bush, already described, so that our camels were much more inclined to...
10. CHAPTER VI.WHILE employed in the survey of the southern coast of Arabia in the spring of 1835, Lieutenant Wellsted was occupied for a time near the cape called Ras el-Aseïda, in Hadramaut,...
6. CHAPTER II.WHEN the habit of travel began to revive in the Middle Ages, its character was either religious or commercial, either in the form of pilgrimages to Rome, Palestine, (whenever po...
5. CHAPTER I.THE Peninsula of Arabia, forming the extreme southwestern corner of Asia, is partly detached, both in a geographical and historical sense, from the remainder of the continent. A...
4. CHAPTER XVII.NIGHT MARCH IN THE DESERT FRONTISPIECE FACING PAGE THE COFFEE HILLS OF YEMEN 19 VIEW OF EL-MEDINA 39 A VALLEY IN OMAN 51 THE RUINS OF NAKAB EL-HADJAR, IN HADRAMAUT 59 VIEW OF ME...
2. CHAPTER VIII.1. CHAPTER I.3. CHAPTER XIII.