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'Personal Narrative of a pilgrimmage to Al-Madinah and Meccah. Vol. II' [‎412] (447/568)

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412 Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah.
followed two prayer-flections at the tomb of Abraham,
after which we drank of the water of Zamzam, said to be
the same which quenched the thirst of Hagar's exhausted
son.
Besides the Kabah, eight minor structures adorn the
quadrangle, the well of Zamzam, the library, the clock-
room, the triangular staircase, and four ornamental resting-
places for the orthodox sects of Hanafi, Shaft, Maliki.and
Hanbali.
We terminated our morning duties by walking and
running seven times along the streets of Safa and Marwa,
so named from the flight of seven steps at each of its
extremities.
After a few days spent in visiting various places ol
interest, such as the slave-market and forts, and the
houses of the Prophet and the Caliphs 'Ali and Abubakr,
we started on our six hours'journey to the mountain of
'Arifat, an hour's sojourn at which, even in a state oi
insensibility, confers the rank of haji. It is a mountain
spur of about a hundred and fifty feet in height, presenting
an artificial appearance from the wall encircling it and
the terrace on its slope, from which the iman delivers a
sermon before the departure of his congregation for
Meccah. His auditors were, indeed, numerous, their tents
being scattered over two or three miles of the country
A great number of their inmates were fellow-subjects of
ours from India. I surprised some of my Meccah friends
by informing them that Queen Victoria numbers nearly
twenty millions of Mohammedans among her subjects.
On the 5th of June, at sunset, commencing our return,
we slept at the village of Muzdalifah, and there gathered
and washed seven pebbles of the size of peas, to be flung at
three piles of whitewashed masonry known as the
Shaitans (Satans) of Muna. We acquitted ourselves
satisfactorily of this duty on the festival of the 6tb of

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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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1 volume (414 pages)
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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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Dimensions: 185mm x 110mm

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English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script
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