Works, Volume 63Kraus Reprint, 1967 - Geography |
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... continued there till night . This place has been ' noted for crimes of this kind , for Khunigha in the Arabic language signifies to throttle1 . June the 21st . We still continued at Khunigah , because the Sheik who was our Caravan Bashi ...
... continued there till night . This place has been ' noted for crimes of this kind , for Khunigha in the Arabic language signifies to throttle1 . June the 21st . We still continued at Khunigah , because the Sheik who was our Caravan Bashi ...
Page 82
... continued still in our camp . July the 12th . We proceeded on our journey an hour before sunrise ; and our road for the first two hours lay over a stony hill , after which we entered into a champain country with gravel and shrubs . This ...
... continued still in our camp . July the 12th . We proceeded on our journey an hour before sunrise ; and our road for the first two hours lay over a stony hill , after which we entered into a champain country with gravel and shrubs . This ...
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... continued ascending and descending for three hours together , and then passed over hills which led us to another plain as smooth as a bowling green , but barren . At the end of this we passed over rising ground , from whence we had a ...
... continued ascending and descending for three hours together , and then passed over hills which led us to another plain as smooth as a bowling green , but barren . At the end of this we passed over rising ground , from whence we had a ...
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