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Reviews of A Narrative of a Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia, 1862-63 by William Gifford Palgrave, Published 1865 [‎6r] (11/42)

The record is made up of 1 file (21 folios). It was created in 1865. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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Palgrave'5 Arabia,
189
numerous publications both in England and in France. But
M. Mengin had much that was new to tell of the laws and
customs of Nejd ; ol its productions, animal and vegetable ; of its
trade ; of its agriculture, and the manner of conducting it; of
the taxation, and the total amount of each description of produce
on which a tax is levied by the Government; and his history is
accompanied by maps, in which the topography of Nejd is illus
trated with great care and considerable accuracy. It was, no
doubt, with the aid of those materials that Dr. Plate constructed
the map of Arabia which accompanied Colonel Chesney's
account of the Euphrates expedition; and which, with the
exception of the valley of the Jowf, which Dr. Wallin was
the first European to visit, contains all that was known of the
topography of Nejd, till Colonel Felly, in 1865, was able
by correct astronomical observations to determine the latitude
and longitude of Riad and some other places.
Dr. Wallin, a native of Finland, who travelled in Northern
Arabia in 1845-48, visited both Jowf and Jebel Shammar. The
notes of his journey, with a sketch map showing most of the
towns and villages of those two districts of Nejd, were published
in 1851 in the 'Transactions of the Royal Geographical Society,'
vol. xx. He encountered the Beni Shammar, as far to the west
as Teima, which belongs to them, and states that their different
clans or tribes extend eastward into Irak, which is their favourite
haunt. 6 But towards the close of spring, when water and
pasture are scarce in the Nefood, every tribe draws nearer to its
own town or village, and in the time of the date-harvest they
generally pitch their tents close to the walls of their respective
towns.' He observes, that according to their own tradition
they were one of the tribes who emigrated latest from Yemen,
and that ' they retain the Yemeny features of their ancestors in a
greater degree perhaps than any other tribe from that country.'
6 The Beni Shammar,' he says, ' are under the authority of Ibn
al Rashid, the chief Sheikh of all the Shammar in Nejd.'
Mr. Layard, in his ' Nineveh and Babylon,' a book which
most educated persons have read, gives an account of Gebel
Shammar, which contains the substance of nearly all that Mr.
Pal grave has told us of that district and its chief, Ibn Rashid.
Mr. Layard tells us that:—
c Of late years Ibn Eashid, a chief of the Gebel Shammar, has by
his courage and abilities acquired the whole of that district; and has
rendered himself sufficiently powerful to hold in check the various
tribes which surround it. Pilgrims under his protection could
therefore again venture to take the shortest road to Mecca. . . . The
chief punctually fulfilled his engagements, and the caravan I have
described was the first that had crossed the desert for many years
without

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Three published reviews of Palgrave's Arabia , one from a journal and two from newspapers:

  • Pages 182-215 from the Quarterly Review which contained a review of Palgrave's Arabia (ff. 2v-19). The review is undated but is believed to be c.1865.
  • Press cutting from the Friend of India of their review of 'Mr Palgrave's journey through Arabia'. The Press Cutting is undated but is believed be c.1865.
  • Press cutting from the Times of India , 4 November 1865 of an article entitled 'Central and Eastern Arabia' which reviews Palgrave's book.

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William Gifford Palgrave, A Narrative of a year's journey through Central and Eastern Arabia 1862-1863 (London, 1865)

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1 file (21 folios)
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Foliation: This file has been foliated in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio with a pencil number enclosed in a circle.

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