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 XXI - THE JEBEL
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
The women of the hauta loaded the tents and their gear, and I saw our Aarab departing before the morning light. Zeyd rode in upon his mare, from the village where he had slept; ‘If I would go now with him, he would bring me, he said, to the Bishr and bind them for my better security;’ but Zeyd could not dwell, he must follow his Aarab, and I could not be ready in a moment; I saw the Fukara companions no more. A stranger, who passed by, lent me a hand in haste, as I loaded upon my old nâga: and I drove her, still resisting and striving to follow the rest, half a mile about the walls to those Bishr, who by fortune were not so early movers. There, I betook myself to Hayzàn, the man who had agreed to conduct me: and of another I bought the frame of a riding-saddle, that I might lay the load upon my wounded camel. They were charging their cattle, and we set forward immediately.
Leaving Teyma on the right hand, we passed forth, between the Érbah peaks and Ghrenèym, to the desert; soon after the bleak border was in sight of the Nefûd, also trending eastward. We journeyed on in rain and thick weather; at four of the afternoon they alighted, in the wet wilderness, at an height of 600 feet above Teyma, and the hungry camels were dismissed to pasture.
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- Travels in Arabia Deserta , pp. 566 - 593Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1888