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'Southern Arabia, by Theodore Bent, F.R.G.S., F.S.A., Author of 'The Ruined Cities of Mashonaland' 'The Sacred City of the Ethiopians' 'The Cyclades, Or Life Among the Insular Greeks' etc. and Mrs Theodore Bent' [201] (248/552)
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KETRIBUTION FOR OUR FOES
201
it is called, a most cheerful set of people, at least as far as
our own immediate party was concerned ; some of the others
had little cause for pleasant anticipations.
We were in advance of the baggage camels, riding our
horses and donkey, and accompanied by Talib, without
his dagger, on his camel. Matthaios, the Jabberi, and the
soldiers surrounding the prisoner Mohammad, attached by
a long rope to my husband's horse, an arrangement not
invented by my husband, but which we enjoyed very much,
and no wonder, after all we had suffered !
The servants all thought that as soon as might be after
getting to Sheher we should take ship for Aden, and many
were the plans made for vengeance upon Saleh once he was
safe in our clutches on board that ship.
We, however, had quite another design, which was that
my husband and Imam Sharif and I should go off to
Bir Borhut, if the safety of our lives could in any way
be guaranteed, we taking only Noura, one of the Indian
servants, as our own attendant. Of course the others
would be with their master.
Several times we went by small passes through gypsum
hills, lovely to behold, and twice we passed water, not so
bitter as Ghail Babwazir. We had plenty of up and down
hill, but never had to dismount. The way was, for the most
part, arid and uninteresting. Four years before, in these
passes, the Hamoumi had attacked a caravan and killed
nine men, taking eighty camels and 2,000
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
. They
must have had sw/dinvthough, from some tribe. Each tiibe
has its fixed 1 tariff. The Hamoumi have twenty-seven
dollars, the Jabberi seventy, the Tamimi one hundred, &c.,
and when this sum is paid, if you have only one of each
tribe with you, you are safe.
When we had gone two-thirds of our way we reached a
palm-shadowed village called Zarafa. Here we went into a
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Southern Arabia, by Theodore Bent, F.R.G.S., F.S.A., Author of 'The Ruined Cities of Mashonaland' 'The Sacred City of the Ethiopians' 'The Cyclades, Or Life Among the Insular Greeks' etc. and Mrs Theodore Bent .
Publication details: Reading: Garnet, c 1994.
Edition: new edition.
Notes: facsimile edition of edition published London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1900.
Physical Description: initial roman numeral paginations i-xi, i-x; 24 leaves of plates, 5 folded leaves of maps; illustrations, 6 maps 1 portrait.
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The volume contains a list of contents giving section and chapter headings and page references, a list of illustrations and a list of maps. There is an alphabetical index at the back of the volume.
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- YC.1995.b.7122
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- 'Southern Arabia, by Theodore Bent, F.R.G.S., F.S.A., Author of 'The Ruined Cities of Mashonaland' 'The Sacred City of the Ethiopians' 'The Cyclades, Or Life Among the Insular Greeks' etc. and Mrs Theodore Bent'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1:12, 1:2, 5:12, 1:2, 2a:2b, 3:24, 24a:24b, 25:34, 34a:34b, 35:70, 70a:70b, 71:110, 110a:110b, 111:124, 124a:124b, 125:144, 144a:144b, 145:226, 226a:226b, 227:246, 246a:246b, 247:270, 270a:270b, 271:286, 286a:286b, 287:304, 304a:304b, 305:336, 336a:336b, 337:342, 342a:342b, 343:354, 354a:354b, 355:364, 364a:364b, 365:378, 378a:378b, 379:382, 382a:382b, 383:386, 386a:386b, 387:394, 394a:394b, 395:400, 400a:400b, 401:402, 402a:402b, 403:408, 408a:408b, 409:412, 412a:412b, 413:418, 418a:418b, 419:420, 420a:420b, 421:424, 424a:424b, 425:434, 434a:434b, 435:436, 436a:436b, 437:456, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
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- Bent, James Theodore
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