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‘A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the cradle of the Arab race. A visit to the court of the Arab Emir, and "Our Persian Campaign."' [170] (223/334)
The record is made up of 1 volume (273 pages). It was created in 1881. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.
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A Pilgrimage to Nejd.
[CH. VIII.
not care for her and would not at first consent. Still
she persisted in her love, and sought to do them good,
and interceded with her father to spare their lives.
Now Znati began to be perplexed with his prisoners,
hearing from his daughter that they were of noble
birth, and not knowing what to do with them. And
when she told them this, they proposed that one of
them should be released, and sent home to bring a
ransom for his fellows, but in their hearts they were
determined that Abu Zeyd should be the one sent,
and that he should return, not with a ransom, but
with all his people to Tunis, and so set them free.
And Sferi carried the proposal to her father, and
said, " ! wo of these men are of noble birth, but the
third is a slave, but I know not which it is. Let
then the slave go and get ransom for his masters."
And Znati said, " How shall we discover the slave
amongst them, and distinguish him from the others ?"
and she said, ''By this. Take them to a muddy
place, where there is water, and bid them pass over
it. And you shall see that whichever is the slave
amongst them will gather up his clothes about him
carefully, while the nobly born will let their clothes
be soiled/ And her father agreed, and it happened
so that on the following day the three men were
brought out of their dungeon, and made to pass
through a muddy stream. And Abu Zeyd, being
warned by Sferi, put his abba on his head, and lifted
up his shirt to the waist, while Merry and Yunis
walked through without precaution. So Abu Zeyd
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A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the cradle of the Arab race. A visit to the court of the Arab Emir, and "Our Persian Campaign."...With map, portraits, and illustrations from the author's drawings , by Lady Anne Isabella Noel Blunt, Baroness Wentworth. With contributions from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.
Publication details: Published by John Murray, Albemarle Street, London.
Physical description: Volume 1 of a two-volume work; includes map and illustrations; Octavo.
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- 1 volume (273 pages)
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The volume contains a table of contents with chapter headings with page references (pp xxix-xxxi). Each chapter heading is followed by a detailed breakdown of the contents of that chapter. There is also a list of illustrations giving titles and page references (p xxxiii).
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Dimensions: 210mm x 135mm.
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- 2358.c.2. vol. 1
- Title
- ‘A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the cradle of the Arab race. A visit to the court of the Arab Emir, and "Our Persian Campaign."'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:34, 1:80, 80a:80b, 81:104, 104a:104b, 105:118, 118a:118b, 119:120, 120a:120b, 121:160, 160a:160b, 161:214, 214a:214b, 215:250, 250a:250b, 251:274, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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- Blunt Lady, nee King, Anne Isabella Noel, 15th Baroness Wentworth
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- Public Domain