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... five , and rested . Little wind today and excessive hot . Course much the same . About eight this evening we again loaded and travelled till midnight . No want of water . Sept. 2nd . Mounted at five , and baiting at noon ended our days ...
... five , and rested . Little wind today and excessive hot . Course much the same . About eight this evening we again loaded and travelled till midnight . No want of water . Sept. 2nd . Mounted at five , and baiting at noon ended our days ...
Page 78
... five ; at which time we encamped at Ruselain1 , near a pool overun with reeds . In the night the Arab of whom I had my camels lost five of these animals . Ten days ' journey and a half from Busserah . July the 3rd . The caravan was in ...
... five ; at which time we encamped at Ruselain1 , near a pool overun with reeds . In the night the Arab of whom I had my camels lost five of these animals . Ten days ' journey and a half from Busserah . July the 3rd . The caravan was in ...
Page 170
... five hours was mostly level , the soil good , full of small loose stones , but afterwards barren , with hard gravel . No water . 25TH . Mounted this morning at seven . Course variable from south to south east , nearly S.S.E. five hours ...
... five hours was mostly level , the soil good , full of small loose stones , but afterwards barren , with hard gravel . No water . 25TH . Mounted this morning at seven . Course variable from south to south east , nearly S.S.E. five hours ...
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