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Page xiv
... land route from the Levant to the Persian Gulf began to be used by Western travellers and adventurers , and many of them left us records of their journeys . It continued to be used , more or less without interruption , until the end of ...
... land route from the Levant to the Persian Gulf began to be used by Western travellers and adventurers , and many of them left us records of their journeys . It continued to be used , more or less without interruption , until the end of ...
Page xxvi
... land route be- tween 1640 and 1745 , but principally we may blame the com- mercial rivalries which resulted in wars between the English and the Dutch . Dutch power was in the ascendancy on the Gulf in the last decades of the seventeenth ...
... land route be- tween 1640 and 1745 , but principally we may blame the com- mercial rivalries which resulted in wars between the English and the Dutch . Dutch power was in the ascendancy on the Gulf in the last decades of the seventeenth ...
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... land . At nine we arrived at wells of very bad water , and so bitter that our camels would hardly drink of it . Then we continued our course over a thick heath ; and afterwards we had very barren , stony land for the rest of the day ...
... land . At nine we arrived at wells of very bad water , and so bitter that our camels would hardly drink of it . Then we continued our course over a thick heath ; and afterwards we had very barren , stony land for the rest of the day ...
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