Book/Printed Material Personal narrative of a pilgrimage to el Medinah and Meccah. Volume 1
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Image 1 of Volume 1 PILGRIMAGE TO EL MEDINA AND MECCAH VOL I -
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Image 7 of Volume 1 PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF A PILGRIMAGE EL MEDINA and MECCAH RICHARD F BURTON CAPTAIN BOMBAY ARMY Our notions of Mecca must be drawn from the Arabians as no unbeliever is permitted to enter… -
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Image 11 of Volume 1 TO COLONEL WILLIAM SYKES F R SOC M R G SOC M R A SOC AND LORD RECTOR OF THE MARISCHAL COLLEGE ABERDEEN I do not parade your name my dear Colonel… -
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Image 13 of Volume 1 PREFACE The interest now felt in everything that relates to the East would alone be sufficient to ensure tc the author of El Medinah and Meccah the favourable consideration of the Reading… -
Image 14 of Volume 1 X PREFACE The reader may question the propriety of in troducing in a work of description anecdotes which may appear open to the charge of triviality The authors object however seems to… -
Image 15 of Volume 1 PREFACE XI when in that country and still more during his late journeyings in Arabia and East Africa the Geographical Society through their learned Secre tary Dr Norton Shaw have given valuable… -
Image 16 of Volume 1 XU PREFACE climate will induce the Governments of this coun try and of India to provide him with men and means evidently all that is required for the pur pose to pursue… -
Image 17 of Volume 1 CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME CHAPTER I TO ALEXANDRIA Page A Few Words concerning what compelled me to a Pil grimage 1 CHAPTER II I leave Alexandria 16 CHAPTER III The Nile… -
Image 18 of Volume 1 CONTENTS xiv CHAPTER IX Suez CHAPTER X The Pilgrim Ship CHAPTER XI To Yambu CHAPTER XII The Halt at Yambu CHAPTER XIII From Yambu to Bir Abbas CHAPTER XIY From Bir Abbas… -
Image 19 of Volume 1 LIST OF PLATES IN VOL I The Pilgrim View of El Medinah Route from Yambu to El Medinah and Meccah v The Takhtrawan or Grandees Litter An Arab Shaykh Plan of El… -
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Image 23 of Volume 1 A PILGRIMAGE TO EL MEDINAH AND MECCAH CHAPTER I TO ALEXANDRIA A FEW WORDS CONCERNING WHAT INDUCED ME TO A PILGRIMAGE In the autumn of 1852 through the medium of General Monteith… -
Image 24 of Volume 1 2 PILGRIMAGE TO EL MEDINAH AND MECCAH reason that the contemplated journey was of too dangerous a nature In compensation however for the disappoint ment I was graciously allowed by my honorable… -
Image 25 of Volume 1 HOW AND WHY UNDERTAKEN 3 The secondary objects were numerous I was desirous to find out if any market for horses could be opened between Central Arabia and India where the studs… -
Image 26 of Volume 1 4 PILGRIMAGE TO EL MEDINAH AND MECCAH testimony of the natives induces me to think with Wallin contrary to Eitter and others that the Peninsula falls instead of rising towards the south… -
Image 27 of Volume 1 A PERSIAN PRINCE EMBARKS AT SOUTHAMPTON 5 in order to appear suddenly as an Eastern upon the stage of Oriental life and as the recital may he found useful by future adventurers… -
Image 28 of Volume 1 6 PILGRIMAGE TO EL MEDINA AND MECCAH each in a several and widely different wayis notably as applicable to the manners of the Eastern as of the Western man Look for instance… -
Image 29 of Volume 1 ARRIVAL AT ALEXANDRIA 7 The sight of glorious Trafalgar excites none of the sentiments with which a tedious sail used to invest it Gib the familiar name of Gibraltar is probably better… -
Image 30 of Volume 1 8 PILGRIMAGE TO EL MEDINAH AND MECCAH pered Muslim The infant population spared me the compliments usually addressed to hatted heads and when a little boy presuming that the occasion might possibly… -
Image 31 of Volume 1 THE KAYF 9 nightbreeze wandering through starlit skies and tufted trees with a voice of melancholy meaning And this is the Arabs Kayf The savouring of animal existence the passive enjoyment of… -
Image 32 of Volume 1 10 PILGRIMAGE TO EL MEPINAH AND MECCAH patras Needle is not Cleopatras whose Pompeys Pillar never had any connection with Pompey and whose Cleopatras Baths are according to veracious tra vellers no… -
Image 33 of Volume 1 THE PILGRIMS SUCCESSFUL DISGUISE 11 The better to blind the inquisitive eyes of servants and visitors my friend lodged me in an outhouse where I could revel in the utmost freedom of… -
Image 34 of Volume 1 12 PILGRIMAGE TO EL MEDINAH AND MECCAH he saw an ancient man at prayer Sikandar ElRumi a Moslem Alexander the Great of course left his bones in the place bearing his name… -
Image 35 of Volume 1 DISEASES IN THE EAST INTERMITTENT 13 was a holy man gifted with supernatural powers and knowing everything One old person sent to offer me his daughter in marriagehe said nothing about dowry… -
Image 36 of Volume 1 14 PILGRIMAGE TO EL MEDINAH AND MECCAH reforming my title from Mirza to Shaykh Ab dullah A reverend man whose name I do not care to quote some time ago initiated me… -
Image 37 of Volume 1 A dervishs the safest disguise 15 his way on foot or alone or ride his Arab steed followed by a dozen servants he is equally feared without wea pons as swaggering through… -
Image 38 of Volume 1 16 PILGRIMAGE TO EL MEDINA AND MECCA CHAP II I LEAVE ALEXANDRIA The thoroughbred wanderers idiosyncrasy I presume to be a composition of what phrenologists call inhabitive ness and locality equally and… -
Image 39 of Volume 1 17 Egypts first steps in civilisation ation of a certain monthly stipend the affections of a brother and religious refreshment proposing to send his wife back to her papa and to accompany… -
Image 40 of Volume 1 18 PILGRIMAGE TO EL MEDINAH AND MECCAH the Mamelukes would have led to a beyship or a bow string receive fourfold punishment by deportation to Faizoghli the local Cayenne If you order…
About this Item
Title
- Personal narrative of a pilgrimage to el Medinah and Meccah.
Names
- Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890.
Created / Published
- London, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857.
Headings
- - Pilgrims and pilgrimages--Saudi Arabia--Mecca
- - Arabian Peninsula--Description and travel
Medium
- 2 v. illus. (part col.) fold. maps. 20 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- DS207 .B964 1857
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 49031226
OCLC Number
- 5778233
Online Format
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- online text