Book contents
- Frontmatter
- THE PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I THE PERAEA; AMMON AND MOAB
- CHAPTER II THE MOUNTAIN OF EDOM: ARABIA PETRAEA
- CHAPTER III THE HAJ JOURNEYING IN ARABIA
- CHAPTER IV MEDÁIN [THE “CITIES” OF] SÂLIḤ
- CHAPTER V MEDÁIN SÂLIḤ AND EL-‘ALLY
- CHAPTER VI EL-‘ALLY, EL-KHREYBY, MEDÁIN
- CHAPTER VII RETURN OF THE HAJ
- CHAPTER VIII THE NOMAD LIFE IN THE DESERT
- CHAPTER IX LIFE IN THE WANDERING VILLAGE
- CHAPTER X THE NOMADS IN THE DESERT VISIT TO TEYMA
- CHAPTER XI THE FUKARA WANDERING AS FUGITIVES IN ANOTHER DÎRA
- CHAPTER XII PEACE IN THE DESERT
- CHAPTER XIII MEDÁIN REVISITED. PASSAGE OF THE HARRA
- CHAPTER XIV WANDERING UPON THE HARRA WITH THE MOAHÎB
- CHAPTER XV OUR LIFE UPON THE HARRA
- CHAPTER XVI THE AARAB FORSAKE THE HARRA AND DESCEND TO THEIR SUMMER STATION IN WADY THIRBA
- CHAPTER XVII THE MOAHIB SUMMER CAMP IN WADY THIRBA. VISIT TO EL-‘ALLY
- CHAPTER XVIII THE FUKARA SUMMERING AT EL-HEJR
- CHAPTER XIX TEYMA
- CHAPTER XX THE DATE HARVEST
- CHAPTER XXI THE JEBEL
- CHAPTER XXII HÂYIL
- Appendix to Vol. I
- Plate section
CHAPTER XVI - THE AARAB FORSAKE THE HARRA AND DESCEND TO THEIR SUMMER STATION IN WADY THIRBA
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 December 2010
- Frontmatter
- THE PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I THE PERAEA; AMMON AND MOAB
- CHAPTER II THE MOUNTAIN OF EDOM: ARABIA PETRAEA
- CHAPTER III THE HAJ JOURNEYING IN ARABIA
- CHAPTER IV MEDÁIN [THE “CITIES” OF] SÂLIḤ
- CHAPTER V MEDÁIN SÂLIḤ AND EL-‘ALLY
- CHAPTER VI EL-‘ALLY, EL-KHREYBY, MEDÁIN
- CHAPTER VII RETURN OF THE HAJ
- CHAPTER VIII THE NOMAD LIFE IN THE DESERT
- CHAPTER IX LIFE IN THE WANDERING VILLAGE
- CHAPTER X THE NOMADS IN THE DESERT VISIT TO TEYMA
- CHAPTER XI THE FUKARA WANDERING AS FUGITIVES IN ANOTHER DÎRA
- CHAPTER XII PEACE IN THE DESERT
- CHAPTER XIII MEDÁIN REVISITED. PASSAGE OF THE HARRA
- CHAPTER XIV WANDERING UPON THE HARRA WITH THE MOAHÎB
- CHAPTER XV OUR LIFE UPON THE HARRA
- CHAPTER XVI THE AARAB FORSAKE THE HARRA AND DESCEND TO THEIR SUMMER STATION IN WADY THIRBA
- CHAPTER XVII THE MOAHIB SUMMER CAMP IN WADY THIRBA. VISIT TO EL-‘ALLY
- CHAPTER XVIII THE FUKARA SUMMERING AT EL-HEJR
- CHAPTER XIX TEYMA
- CHAPTER XX THE DATE HARVEST
- CHAPTER XXI THE JEBEL
- CHAPTER XXII HÂYIL
- Appendix to Vol. I
- Plate section
Summary
Breaking up from W. Gârib, we pitched five hours to the S.W. in the Agorra; great was the midsummer heat even in that high ground! Here a womanly fair young wife, so nigh as he could have mind the fifteenth of his many marriages, bore to Tollog her first-born son and recomforted the old heart in his heavy age. The last day of June we descended southward by the haj road; where I saw again the wheel-rut of the Jurdy cannon. Among the bergs, upon our left-hand, stands a bee-hive shaped sandstone mountain, J. Merzûm, which seemed to me capped with basalt, although at some miles from the Harra side. In this desolate passage I saw many blossoming plants of senna, with the head of yellow flowers, nearly like a ground pea. My old nâga cropped the noxious herb, that is not often browsed by camels, and when the nomads see them they drive their beasts further; but those riding next by me looked on with the Beduish malice, and held their peace; afterwards they said, “Wherefore, Khalil, let thy naga eat of that which is venomous!” Somewhat more brave is the desert march of the Moahîb than the ráhla of the Fejîr; for these sheykhly housewives ride gaily mounted in saddle-frames múksir, with some caparison of coloured carpets.
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- Travels in Arabia Deserta , pp. 436 - 461Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1888