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Page 32
... Arrived in the afternoon at another called Izbiz2 , two hours and a half from Bassora . We had all day the same N.W. wind and equally troublesome . Here the caravan remained , and the merchants are not allowed to remove their effects ...
... Arrived in the afternoon at another called Izbiz2 , two hours and a half from Bassora . We had all day the same N.W. wind and equally troublesome . Here the caravan remained , and the merchants are not allowed to remove their effects ...
Page 78
... arrived . July the 2nd . We began to set forward half an hour before sunrise , at first through a sandy soil , and afterwards over gravelly and stony land . At nine we passed between a hill and a chain of hills ; and near eleven we arrived ...
... arrived . July the 2nd . We began to set forward half an hour before sunrise , at first through a sandy soil , and afterwards over gravelly and stony land . At nine we passed between a hill and a chain of hills ; and near eleven we arrived ...
Page 84
... arrived at a small plain where we found wells1 , but not enough to water all our camels , and therefore the much greater part went forward , for those that stopped were only some few of the Bagdad caravan . Two hours after we had passed ...
... arrived at a small plain where we found wells1 , but not enough to water all our camels , and therefore the much greater part went forward , for those that stopped were only some few of the Bagdad caravan . Two hours after we had passed ...
Contents
A Journey from Aleppo to Basra in 1745 by William | 1 |
A Journey from Basra to Aleppo in 1748 by Gaylard | 41 |
A Similar Journey in 1750 by Bartholomew Plaisted | 129 |
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afternoon Ain el Qom Aleppo Amurath ancient appears Arabia Arabs arrived Asia Bagdad Bagdad caravan barren Bashaw Basra Bassora Battan Beawes Bengal breeze camels carav caravan caravan route Carmichael Course S.E. desert route distance East India encamped Euphrates European expence five four Ganam Gertrude Bell ground Gulf Hakluyt half an hour Haran hills hundred inhabitants journal journey from Busserah July Lakhmid loaded London mamoodies mentioned merchants Mesopotamia miles morning at seven Mount Gilead Mounted this morning Mousul Najaf Niebuhr night noon obliged Oglet Haran Orfa Ormuz overland Palmyra passage passed Persian piasters plain Plaisted plenty probably proceeded Rahba Rennell river road ruins rupees sandy servant seven Sheik shrubs side soil stones stony sunrise Syria Taiyibe Tavernier Teixeira thence three hours town travellers Turks twenty Ukhaidir Urfa valley village Voyage Wadi weather wind