Notes on the Bedouins and Wahábys: Collected During His Travels in the East, Volum 1

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H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831
 

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Side 60 - festival, or on the arrival of a stranger. For a common guest, bread is baked, and served up with the ayesh; if the guest is of some consideration, coffee is prepared for him, and behatta, or ftita, or bread with melted butter. For a man of rank, a kid or lamb is killed.
Side 218 - to 61. per pound). The finest feathers are sold singly, at from one to two shillings each. Gazelles.—These are seen in considerable numbers all over the Syrian Desert. On the Eastern frontiers of Syria are several places allotted for the hunting of gazelles; these places are called
Side 148 - and the thdr does not reach him ; b and c have claims to the thar, but d has not. The right to bloodrevengeis never lost: it descends on both sides to the latest generations. . If the family of the man killed should in revenge kill two of the dammawy's
Side 134 - which was carried in the centre; felled to the ground the camel that bore it by a stroke on its thigh; then wheeled round, and had already regained the open space between the two armies, when he was killed by a shot from a metrds, or foot-soldier.* His friends,
Side 99 - traveller, and at the same time serve to guard the body from wild beasts. On the death of a father, the children of both sexes cut off their kerouns, or tresses of hair, in testimony of grief.
Side 203 - whose skin is as bright and unsullied as milk, resembling those horses of which the prophet said, ' True riches area noble and fierce breed of horses ;' and of which God said, ' The war-horses, those which rushed on the enemy with fullblowing nostrils; those which plunge into the battle early in the morning.' And God spoke the truth in his incomparable book. This
Side 347 - Among the Sinai Arabs, a boy would feel himself insulted were any one to say, " Go and drive your father's sheep to pasture;" these words, in his opinion, would signify, " You are no better than a girl.
Side 125 - To try the veracity of a person, a small piece of wood (or some straw), is taken up from the ground, and presented to him with these words — " Take the wood and swear by God, and the life of him who caused it to be green, and dried it up." A still more solemn oath is the
Side 162 - near relation, his right to freedom is allowed, the thongs which tied his hair are cut with a knife, his fetters are taken off, and he is set at liberty. Sometimes he finds means to disengage himself from his chains, during the rabat's absence; * From this rule, however, is excepted the
Side 159 - or he who seizes the rabiet) asks his captive on what business he had come, and this question is generally accompanied by some blows on the head. " I came to rob, God has overthrown me," is the answer most commonly given. The prisoner is then led into the tent, where the capture of a hardmy occasions great

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