Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah

"El Medinah and Meccah" the favourable consideration of the Reading Public. But when it is borne in mind that since the

lia of Mohammedan superstition. In fact, El Madinah may be considered almost a virgin theme; for as Burckhardt was prostrated by sickness throughout the period of his stay in the Northern Hejaz, he was not able t

the people - to dramatise, as it were, the dry journal of a journey, - and to preserve the tone of the adventures, together with that local colouring in which mainly consists "l'education d'un voyage." For the same re

inati. Such extracts have been now made from these writers that the general reader can become acquainted with the adventures and opinions of the different travellers who have visited El Hejaz during a space of

The concluding volume on Meccah is now in the hands of the publisher, and will appear in the Autumn of the present year. Meanwhile the Public will not lose sight of the subject of Arabia. Part of El Hejaz has lately been inspected by M. Charles Didier, an eminent name in French literature, and by the Abbe Hamilton, - persuaded, it is be

e during his late journeyings in Arabia and East Africa, the Geographical Society, through their learned Secretary, Dr. Norton Shaw, have given valuable aid to this work in it

ude for such studies, a thorough acquaintance with various dialects of Arabia and Persia; and, indeed, his Eastern cast of features (vide Frontispiece

d; and the same, too, may be said of the common corruptions, Cairo, Kadi, &c., which, in any other form, would appear to us pedantic and ridiculous. Still, in the absence of the author, it must be expected that some trifling errors and inaccuraci[e]s will have here and there have crept in. In justice to others and himself,

the most inclement climate, will induce the Governments of this country and of India to provide him with men and means (evidently all that is required for the purpose) to

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