Works, Volume 63Kraus Reprint, 1967 - Geography |
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Page 117
... servant if a slave . You will generally find servants at Busserah who speak the country Portuguese or lingua franca of the Mediterranean ; but at Bagdad there are few or none who understand any European language . On the road you never ...
... servant if a slave . You will generally find servants at Busserah who speak the country Portuguese or lingua franca of the Mediterranean ; but at Bagdad there are few or none who understand any European language . On the road you never ...
Page 118
... servant may pass by yourselves along the road we took in great security , except six days ' journey from Mousul ... servants are in general very arrant cowards . It will not be amiss to provide yourself with a box of medicines ; for if ...
... servant may pass by yourselves along the road we took in great security , except six days ' journey from Mousul ... servants are in general very arrant cowards . It will not be amiss to provide yourself with a box of medicines ; for if ...
Page 132
... servant . The petition was , as usual , referred to the Committee of Correspondence to examine and report . The result was fatal to Carmichael's hopes . On 12 July the Committee reported that ' finding by the advices from Bombay and ...
... servant . The petition was , as usual , referred to the Committee of Correspondence to examine and report . The result was fatal to Carmichael's hopes . On 12 July the Committee reported that ' finding by the advices from Bombay and ...
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