A Pilgrimage to Nejd, Volume 2J. Murray, 1881 |
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Aared Abdallah Ajjem Anazeh animals Arabia Arabs Ariel Awwad Bactiari Bagdad beasts Bebahan Bedouins Beneyeh Bushire called camels camp canora crossed Dafir Dakher delúl desert Dilam district Dizful dromedaries Emir Emir's escort Euphrates Faris February feet friends fuljes gallop Ghafil ghazú green ground Haïl Hajji Mohammed hare Hasa head hills horsemen horses hour hundred Huseyn hyæna Ibn Arûk Ibn Rashid Ibn Saoud Ibrahim Jebel Aja Jebel Shammar journey Kerbela Kerim Kerkha Ketherin Koli Khan Kurdish Laam locusts look mare Meshhed miles Mizban's Mohammed's morning mounted Muttlak Nefûd Nejd Nejef night ourselves party Pasha passed pasture Persian Persian Gulf pilgrimage pilgrims plain rest Riad riding river road rode sand seemed sent servants Seyd Abbas Sheykh Shustar Sirdal tent thoroughbred Tigris to-day told town travelling tribe Tudmur Turkish valley village Wady Wady Sirhan Wahhabi Wilfrid
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Page 44 - Rashid's standard, is a square of purple silk with a device and motto in white in the centre, and a green border. It is carried by a servant on a tall dromedary, and is usually partly furled on the march. Ambar, the negro emir elHaj, generally accompanies this group. He has a little white mare led by a slave which follows him, and which we have not yet seen him ride. After the berak comes the mass of pilgrims, mounted sometimes two on one camel, sometimes with a couple of boxes on each side, the...
Page 242 - It seems, like the glacier, to have a law of being peculiar to itself, a law of increase, of motion, almost of life. One is struck with these in traversing it, and one seems to recognise an organism. The most remarkable phenomenon of the Nefud are the long lines of horse-hoof shaped hollows, called fuljes, with which its surface is pitted...
Page 17 - ... the flour, and give what is liquid to the colt to drink. "' Be careful from the hour he is born to let him stand in the sun; shade hurts horses, but let him have water in plenty when the day is hot. "' The colt must now be mounted, and taken by his owner everywhere with him, so that he shall see everything, and learn courage. He must be kept constantly in exercise, and never remain long at his manger. He should be taken on a journey, for work will fortify his limbs. "'At three years old he should...
Page 34 - ... coarse reddish sand, the washing down of the granite rocks of Jebel Aja, with here and there magnificent clumps of ithel, great pollards whose trunks measure twenty and thirty feet* in circumference, growing on little mounds showing where houses once stood—just as in Sussex the yew trees do—for the town seems to have shifted from this end of the oasis to where it now is. Across this sand lay a long green belt of barley, perhaps a couple of acres in extent, the blades of corn brilliantly green,...
Page 7 - Sheyfi, extremely plain at first sight, with very drooping quarters, and a head in no way remarkable, but with a fine shoulder. This Seglawieh Sheyfi has a great reputation here, and is of special interest as being the last of her race, the only descendant of the famous mare bought by Abbas Pasha, who sent a bullock cart from Egypt all the way to Nejd to fetch her, for she was old, and unable to travel on foot. The story is well known here, and was told to us exactly as we heard it in the north,...
Page 90 - I shall not easily forget his face, looking wistfully after his companions as they disappeared over the crest of the hill. He is the first of our small party that has fallen out of the ranks, and we are depressed with the feeling that he may not be the last.
Page 10 - ... and runs down almost to a point. "A nose that would go in a pint pot" is an old description of the Arabian cast of countenance. But the profile of the Arabian horse terminates, not " with the nostril, as in the English race horse, but with the tip' of the lip." " The nostrils,
Page 42 - ... and drawings stood out red against a dark back-ground, but now many of these have been completely weathered over again, a process it must have taken centuries in this dry climate to effect. We were in front of the Haj when we came to this tell (Tell es Sayliyeh), and we waited on the top of it while the whole procession passed us, an hour or more. It was a curious spectacle. From the height where we were, we could see for thirty or forty miles back over the plain, as far as Jebel Aja, represented...
Page 241 - Nefud is of different texture from the ordinary while sand of the desert, and seems to obey mechanical laws of its own. It is coarser in texture and far less volatile, and I am inclined to think, that the ordinary light wind, which vary saudy surfaces 1) EUTING, Verb, des Vereins für Erdkunde zu Berlin.
Page 12 - And yet Mr. Blunt says of this same stud : " Of all the mares in the prince's stable, I do not think more than three or four could show with advantage among the Gomussa." He admits, however, that their heads were handsomer than those of the Anazeh mares. The latter are built more nearly on a racehorse model, having greater length of body and of limb. The Nejd horses are perhaps prettier, though not so bloodlike. Unlike the Anazeh mares, they stand higher at the withers...