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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' [340] (399/552)
The record is made up of 1 volume (455 pages). It was created in c 1994. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.
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340
THE EASTERN SOUDAN
the mamour an opera-glass and a silk blanket, besides minor
things ; all seemed very well satisfied. They certainly were
all very nice to us.
The secretary gave me a tremendously heavy curved
camel-stick of ebony, and the mamour besides a head-
scratcher, which he had made me himself from an ibex
horn, a stick of ibex horn, and seven and a half pairs of
horns.
We were weatherbound yet another day, everything
damp and sticky. The south wind seems to me to have a
very mysterious scooping and lifting power; no other wind
lifts sand and water along as this one does. The wind
began to freshen up towards night and got as far as
the east, and by morning was blowing strong north by
east.
My husband had, as usual, to go out and stir up Eeis
Hamaya and tell him we must be off. He seemed as much
surprised as he always was. We had a farewell visit from
the little mamour, and off we set for a very roily voyage.
The whole day we rolled with the smallest sail, everything
banging, beds jostling, but we were glad no longer to feel
wet and sticky as regards our clothes, bedding, and the
whole ship. Our last night on board was not the least
exciting.
We had stopped near Darour amongst reefs of coral.
Every night when we cast anchor the ship used to turn
round so that the north wind blew full on us and our cabins,
but this night it whizzed round so violently as to drag the
anchors, and we went back on to a reef—only a little, though,
but enough to alarm all on board. The anchors had to be
got up and taken by boat to fix into another reef. It was
necessary for all the gentlemen and servants to assist the
sailors in hauling us off the reef. It was very hard on the
sailors, for their supper was smoking hot, ready for them
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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
- Title
- '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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