Personal Narrative of a Years Journey Through Central And Eastern Arabia 1862
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But that town was distant, and when day broke at last there was yet a long road to traverse. This now lay amid mounds and valleys, thick with the vegetation already described; and somewhat after sun- rise we took a full hour to pass the gardens and fields of Ghat, a straggling village, where a dozen wells supplied the valley 154 Journey fiwn IJaycl to Bcrcyddi [Chav, v with copious irrigation. On the adjoining hillocks — I may not call them heights — was continued the series of watch-towers, co...rresponding with others flirther ofif that belonged to villages seen by glimpses in the landscape : I heard, but soon forgot, their names. Inability to note down at once similar details was a great annoyance to me; but the sight of a pencil and pocket- book would have been just then particularly out of place, and I was obliged to trust to memory, which on this, as on too many other occasions, played me false. My notes, too, taken when circumstances permitted, were lost in part in the shipwreck off Barka ; others, jotted down on loose scraps of paper, dis- appeared, I know not how, while I was in the dreary delirium of typhoid fever at Aboo-Shahr and Basrah.
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