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TRAVELS IN ARABIA
COMPILED AND ARRANGED BY
BAYARD TAYLOR
REVISED BY
THOMAS STEVENS
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1898
Copyright 1881, 1892, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
TROW DIRECTORY
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY
NEW YORK
REVISER’S NOTE
The continuance of Bayard Taylor’s Library of Travel in the popular favor is one of the accepted facts of the literary world. So much so, indeed, that a revision of his works on the part of another is to be permitted only on certain conditions of reserve, and by reason of events that have transpired since the death of the distinguished traveller.
Travellers and authors die; but the tribes, nations, and races visited by them continue on, making war or peace, changing frontiers, setting up or pulling down dynasties.
The whole political complexion of a country may be changed in a decade. Though the people of Arabia, the genuine Bedouins, are believed to have changed little or nothing in their mode of life since the days of the Shepherd Kings of Abraham’s time, waves of political and religious agitation have occasionally rippled over one part or another of the ancient peninsula. Seemingly they make as little permanent impression on the undercurrent of Bedouin life, as do the waves of the sea on its immutable whole, so that the accounts of the earlier chroniclers of Arabian life and manners agree in a singular manner with the descriptions of contemporary visitors. For this reason, no less than for the respect and admiration entertained by the reviser for Mr. Taylor’s conscientiousness and judgment as a traveller and compiler, and his literary excellence as an author, this volume remains, practically, as fully the work of its original editor as before.
By way of bringing it up to date, however, Chapter XVII. has been added, and such slight revision of preceding chapters has been made as was found necessary, consistent with the scope and intention of the new edition.
Thomas Stevens.
CONTENTS.
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CHAPTER I. |
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Sketch of Arabia; its Geographical Position and Ancient History |
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CHAPTER II. |
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Early Explorers of Arabia |
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CHAPTER III. |
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Niebuhr’s Travels in Yemen |
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CHAPTER IV. |
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Burckhardt’s Journey to Mecca and Medina |
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CHAPTER V. |
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Wellsted’s Explorations in Oman |
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CHAPTER VI. |
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Wellsted’s Discovery of an Ancient City in Hadramaut |
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CHAPTER VII. |
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Burton’s Pilgrimage |
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Palgrave’s Travels in Central Arabia: from Palestine to the Djowf |
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CHAPTER IX. |
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Palgrave’s Travels—Residence in the Djowf |
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CHAPTER X. |
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Palgrave’s Travels—Crossing the Nefood |
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CHAPTER XI. |
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Palgrave’s Travels—Life in Ha’yel |
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CHAPTER XII. |
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Palgrave’s Travels—Journey to Bereydah |
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CHAPTER XIII. |
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Palgrave’s Travels—Journey to Ri’ad the Capital of Nedjed |