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'Personal Narrative of a pilgrimmage to Al-Madinah and Meccah. Vol. II' [385] (420/568)
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Appendix V.—Pilgrimage of Joseph Pitts. 385
this renegado that if he would serve them on this journey
they would defray his charges throughout. He gladly
embraced the offer, and I remember when we arrived at
Mecca he passionately told me, that God had delivered
him out of hell upon earth (meaning his former slavery in
France and Spain), and had brought him into a heaven
upon earth, viz. Mecca. I admired much his zeal, but
pitied his condition.
"Their water they carry in goats' skins, which they
fasten to one side of their camels. It sometimes happens
that no water is to be met with for two, three, or more
days; but yet it is well known that a camel is a creature
that can live long without drinking (God in his wise provi
dence so ordering it: for otherwise it would be very diffi
cult, if not impossible to travel through the parched
deserts of Arabia).
" In this journey many times the skulking, thievish,
Arabs do much mischief to some of the Hagges; for in
the night time they will steal upon them (especially such
as are on the outside of the Caravan), and being taken to
be some of the servants that belong to the carriers, or
owners of the camels, they are not suspected. When
they see an Hagge fast asleep (for it is usual for them to
sleep on the road), they loose a camel before and behind,
and one of the thieves leads it away with the Hagge upon
its back asleep. Another of them in the meanwhile, pulls
on the next camel to tie it to the camel from whence the
halter of the other was cut ; for if that camel be not
fastened again to the leading camel, it will stop, and all
that are behind will then stop of course, which might be
the means of discovering the robbers. When they have
gotten the stolen camel, with his rider, at a convenient
distance from the Caravan, and think themselves out of
danger, they awake the Hagge, and sometimes destroy
him immediately; but at other times, being a little more
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Personal Narrative of a pilgrimmage to Al-Madinah and Meccah. Vol. II by Captain Sir Richard F Burton, edited by his wife, Isabel Burton, with an introduction bu Stanley Lane-Poole.
Publication Details: London, George Bell and Sons.
Edition: The third edition with preface.
Physical Description: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-xii).
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This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references. There is also a list of illustrations and an alphabetical index at the back of the volume, beginning on page 415.
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- 'Personal Narrative of a pilgrimmage to Al-Madinah and Meccah. Vol. II'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:vii-v, 1:80, 80a:80b, 81:116, 116a:116b, 117:124, 124a:124b, 125:186, 186a:186b, 187:204, 204a:204b, 205:268, 268a:268b, 269:294, 294a:294b, 295:480, 1:48, viii-r:ix-v, back-i
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- Burton, Sir Richard Francis
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