Notes of Travel: Or, Recollections of Majunga, Zanzibar, Muscat, Aden, Mocha, and Other Eastern Ports |
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Notes of Travel: Or, Recollections of Majunga, Zanzibar, Muscat, Aden, Mocha ... Joseph Barlow Felt Osgood No preview available - 2014 |
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Aden Allah Ambolambo American annual Arabian Arabs arrival Banians bazaar Bedoweens Beloochees Berbera boat body Bombay Captain Haines chunam cloth cloves coast coffee costume cotton custom dancing death dress English erected exports feet females fifty fish four fruit governor Guadel HADRAMAUT half Hamed hands harbor head Hodeida horses hundred Imaum Imaum of Muscat India inhabitants island ivory Jiddah Koran land large numbers leaving living looking Madagascar Mahusan Majunga matchlocks Mecca ment merchants miles Mocha Moslem mosques Muscat native obtained ornamented orse Parsee Perim Island Persian Persian Gulf person plunder population ports present Radama Red Sea sail sand season sent Serah Sheik ship shore side silver skin slaves soldiers Somauli soon stone Suahelian Suahelis Sultan sword Syed Thuenee thousand dollars trade trees tribes Turks twelve twenty vessel vicinity walls wear Yemen Zanzibar town Zebeed
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Page 187 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 164 - ... prove him a prophet indeed), That in the latter days there should be men who should bear the name of Moslems, but should not be really such ; and that they should smoke a certain weed, which should be called TOBACCO; however, the eastern nations are generally so addicted to both, that they say, a dish of coffee and a pipe of tobacco are a complete entertainment ; and the Persians have a proverb, that coffee without tobacco is meat without salt.
Page 47 - What docs it matter to that proud senor. How many sick have sunk to rise no more ; How many children in the waving throng, Crush'd in the crowd, or trampled by the strong ! What boots it, in that dungeon of despair, How many beings gasp and pant for air ! How many creatures draw infected breath, And drag...
Page 198 - Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing gold, or of putting on of apparel; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Page 82 - ... the waves dashing at their feet, — there, smoother, with brown and arid sides, and with beds or belts of yellow sand below. Such is the aspect of Araby the Blest ; and for 1800 miles, from the point we first made to the shores of Midian, in the Gulf of Acaba, there is little, very little variety. Like the rough and russet coat of the Persian pomegranate, which gives little promise of the rich and crimson pulp within, so Arabia, all forbidding as she looks, can boast of Yemen and her sparkling...
Page 9 - The fine lady, or fine gentleman, who show me their teeth, show me bones. Yet must I confess, that from the mouth of a true sweep a display (even to ostentation) of those white and shining ossifications, strikes me as an agreeable anomaly in manners, and an allowable piece of foppery.
Page 83 - It is said that God hath given this tree as a peculiar favour to the Muslims ; that He hath decreed all the date-palms in the world to them, and they have accordingly conquered...
Page 131 - I will give you an answer. As sure as there is an only God, and He in heaven, I will not sell so much ground" (making a span with his fingers). " It was the giftof the Almighty to the Mahrahs, and has descended from our forefathers to their children, over whom I am Sultan.
Page 168 - No genial showers, no son distilling dews-: In the hot sky, the stars of lustre shorn, Burn o'er the pathway of the wanderer lorn, And the red moon from Babelmandel's strand Looks, as she climbs through pyramids of sand, That, whirled aloft, and gilded by her light, Blaze the lone beacons of the desert night ! ' A COHHESPOXDKXT, well known to our readers, in a note to the Editor, remarks as follow*.
Page 189 - believes in God and the day of resurrection must respect his guest; and the time of being kind to him is one day and one night; and the period of entertaining him is three days; and after that, if he does it longer, he benefits him more ; but it is not right for a guest to stay in the house of the host so long as to incommode him.