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'The Penetration of Arabia a record of the development of Western knowledge concerning the Arabian Peninsula with illustrations from drawings, photographs, and maps by J. G. Bartholomew.' [‎149] (226/496)

The record is made up of 1 volume (359 pages). It was created in 1904. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.

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THE UNKNOWN SOUTH 149
overestimated at eight thousand feet. He found a
well-marked track supplied with cisterns, but no settle
ments. On the ninth day an immense ravine opened
suddenly before the party, offering a view of many
settlements, and of date groves extending for miles;
and, descending by a narrow paved road, Wrede
found himself in the same Wady Doan whose wealth
and fertility had been vaunted to Niebuhr eighty
years before by a native met in Yemen.
At the largest village, Khoraibe, he was well re
ceived by the chief of the Beni Issa, and furthered
on excursions west and north. In the former direc
tion he desired to revisit Wellsted's goal, Nakab
el-Hajar, and penetrate to Habban; but after discov
ering a new Himyaritic inscription in Wady Ubne,
and reaching the sea, he was turned back, and had
to make his way again, not without grave peril, to
Khoraibe. To northward he pushed across the
plateau to the great Wady Amd, which runs parallel
to Doan. There he found a sheikh who had been in
India, spoke English, and possessed Scott's " Napo
leon." This enlightened individual made no secret
of his disbelief in Wrede's assumed character, but
did not betray him. Thence the German followed
the valley to Haura, where he found Wady Doan
coming into Wady Amd; and turning northward
over a ridge, he struck into a great half-choked
wady running east-northeast. Hearing at the town
of Sawa, chiefly inhabited by collectors of desert salt,
that the great sands of the Ahkaf (here called Bahr

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The Penetration of Arabia a record of the development of Western knowledge concerning the Arabian Peninsula with illustrations from drawings, photographs, and maps by J. G. Bartholomew .

Publication Details: London, Lawrence and Bullen, Ltd. 16 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, W.C.

Notes: In : Keltie (Sir, J.S.) The Story of Exploration, etc. 1903, etc. 8º.

Physical Description: xv, 359 p.

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Dimensions: 225mm x 150mm

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'The Penetration of Arabia a record of the development of Western knowledge concerning the Arabian Peninsula with illustrations from drawings, photographs, and maps by J. G. Bartholomew.' [‎149] (226/496), British Library: Printed Collections, 2352.g.8/3., in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023935010.0x00001b> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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