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Page 69
... encamped at sunset , Days one and a half . June the 18th . We set forward again , at sunrise , having bent our course yesterday and today nearly towards the set- ting sun , and struck out of the usual track more into the desert . The ...
... encamped at sunset , Days one and a half . June the 18th . We set forward again , at sunrise , having bent our course yesterday and today nearly towards the set- ting sun , and struck out of the usual track more into the desert . The ...
Page 165
... encamped , and determined to remain there till next morning . On this information I repented my returning so soon . A fresh bleak N.W. wind all day ; the night very cold . 19TH . Mounted this morning at seven . Our course S. by E. one ...
... encamped , and determined to remain there till next morning . On this information I repented my returning so soon . A fresh bleak N.W. wind all day ; the night very cold . 19TH . Mounted this morning at seven . Our course S. by E. one ...
Page 173
... encamped on the plain . The country level , with a hard barren gravely soil , with fine warm weather . 2D . Decamped at seven . Course S.E. E. two hours , and E.S.E. E. four hours . Came to Battan Shagare3 , where we encamped on the ...
... encamped on the plain . The country level , with a hard barren gravely soil , with fine warm weather . 2D . Decamped at seven . Course S.E. E. two hours , and E.S.E. E. four hours . Came to Battan Shagare3 , where we encamped on the ...
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