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 VII - RETURN OF THE HAJ
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
Footsteps of another ghrazzu of seven had been seen in the plain. In these days M. Aly would have me no more adventure out of sight from the kella: he forbad the gate Arabs to accompany me, ferociously threatening, Wellah, that the lives of them should be for mine: which he said in few days would be required of himself by Mohammed Saîd Pasha.
There remained a single frontispice crag, one of the last outlying monuments, which (since one might climb to the inscription without the ladder-beam) had been left hitherto. I had with difficulty M. Aly's licence to make a last excursion thither with a sure and sheykhly poor man of the Fejîr, Mohammed ed-Deybis, a near kinsman of Zeyd's. My companion's eyes watched all round earnestly as we went, for said he “I must answer for thee, and I am in dread of these ghrazzus!” When the paper prints were long a-drying, for this sepulchre looks to the north, I had leisure to visit the charnel within;— and the monument alone were a sufficient example of all that may be seen at Medáin Sâlih!
Without is a single inscription tablet, which was engraved already when all the lower hewn architecture was yet to begin. The funeral chamber is fully perfected within as a long used burying place: here are loculi, sepulchral cells and sunken sepulchres, and an inner sepulchral chamber; but the fronti spice was only half ended in their time and has remained abandoned.
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- Travels in Arabia Deserta , pp. 190 - 214Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1888