Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah And Meccah
The book Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah And Meccah was written by author Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890 Here you can read free online of Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah And Meccah book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah And Meccah a good or bad book?
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Shatarah (Shitayri). To these Mr. C. Cole, H. B. M.'s Vice-Consul atJcddali, adds seven other subdivisions, viz. : — 1. Ahali el Kura (" the people of Kura?"), 5000. 2. Eadadah, 800. 3. Hijlah, 600. 4. Dubayah, 1500. 5. Beni Kalb, 2000. 6. Bayzanah, 800. 7. Beni Tahya, 800. And he makes the total of the Beni Harb about El Jedaydah amount to 35,000 men. I had no means of personally ascer- taining the correctness of this information. The great Anizah tribe now, I was told, inhabits Khaybar, and i...t must not visit El Medinah without a Bafik or protector. Properly speaking, there are no outcasts in El Hejaz, as in Yemen and the Somali country. But the Hitman (pi. of Hu- taym or Hitaym), inhabiting the sea-board about Yambu, are taxed by other Bedouins as low and vile of origin. The un- chastity of the women is connived at by the men, who, however, are brave and celebrated as marksmen : they make, eat, and sell cheese, for which reason that food is despised by the Harb. And the Khelawiyah (pi.
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