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Abyssinia amongst appeared April Arabia Arabs arrived attacked Bagamoyo Banyans Barderah Berbera Brava camels Captain Burton caravan caravan route cattle centre Chaga cholera epidemic clothing coast of Africa commenced communication connection customs dead death described dhows disease distance district East Africa east coast eastern epidemic epidemic cholera epidemic of cholera European Galla Borani Galla country Gananah Gulf of Aden harbour houses huts infected inhabitants interior ivory Jidda journey Kaabah Khojahs Kilima-njaro Kilwa Lake large number Manyuema Masai country Mecca miles Mombassa monsoon months mortality Moslem Mozambique native craft natives of India negroes neighbouring night Nile north-east monsoon northern occupied Pangani passed Persian pilgrimage pilgrims population probably province rains rainy season reached Red Sea regarding river Jub Samburu ship shore slaves Soma-Gurra Somali Somali ports south-west monsoon southern spread Taveta tion town trade tribes Ugahden Ujiji Unyanyembe vessel Wakwavi Zanzibar
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Page 474 - ... it imparts to enormous volumes of water the power of propagating the disease. When due regard is had to these possibilities of indirect infection, there will be no difficulty...
Page iii - CHOLERA EPIDEMICS IN EAST AFRICA. An Account of the several Diffusions of the Disease in that country from 1821 till 1872, with an Outline of the Geography, Ethnology, and Trade Connections of the Regions through which the Epidemics passed. By J.
Page 42 - ... and the other thrown over their shoulders, having their heads bare, and a kind of slippers which cover neither the heel nor the instep, and so enter the sacred territory in their way to Mecca. While they have this habit on they must neither hunt nor fowl...
Page 44 - Mina, where they throw seven stones at three marks or pillars, in imitation of Abraham, who, meeting the devil in that place, and being by him disturbed in his devotions, or tempted to disobedience, when he was going to sacrifice his son, was commanded by God to drive him away by throwing stones at him ; though others pretend this rite to be as old as Adam, who also put the devil to flight in the same place, and by the same means.
Page 42 - The pilgrimage to Mecca is so necessary a point of practice that, according to a tradition of Mohammed, he who dies without performing it, may as well die a Jew or a Christian...
Page 50 - Scherif s encampment with the bright mahmals and the gilt knobs of the grander pavilions ; whilst, on the southern and western sides, the tents of the vulgar crowded the ground, disposed in dowars, or circles, for penning cattle. After many calculations, I estimated the number to be not less that 50,000, of all ages and sexes." After the sermon on Arafat, which Burton describes in the same manner as Burckhardt, the former gives an account of the subsequent ceremony of
Page 241 - I was sorely knocked up by this march from Nyangwe back to Ujiji. In the latter part of it, I felt as if dying on my feet. Almost every step was in pain, the appetite failed, and a little bit of meat caused violent diarrhoea, whilst the mind, sorely depressed, reacted on the body. All the traders were returning successful : I alone had failed and experienced worry, thwarting, baffling, when almost in sight of the end towards which I strained.
Page 40 - Arabs, were mounted on dromedaries, and the soldiers had horses: a led animal was saddled for every grandee, ready whenever he might wish to leave his litter. Women, children, and invalids of the poorer classes sat upon a "Haml Musattah...
Page 45 - ... white letters the formula of the Moslem creed. They were wild-looking mountaineers, dark and fierce, with hair twisted into thin Dalik or plaits: each was armed with a long spear, a matchlock, or a dagger. They were seated upon coarse wooden saddles, without cushions or stirrups, a fine saddle-cloth alone denoting a * chief. The women emulated the men ; they either guided their own dromedaries, or, sitting in pillion, they clung to their husbands; veils they disdained, and their countenances...
Page 55 - A crowd had gathered round the Ka'abah, and I had no wish to stand bareheaded and barefooted in the midday September sun. At the cry of "Open a path for the Haji who would enter the House," the gazers made way. Two stout Meccans, who stood below the door, raised me in their arms, whilst a third drew me from above into the building. At the entrance I was accosted by several officials, dark-looking Meccans, of whom the blackest and plainest was a youth of the Benu Shaybah family,9 the sangre-azul of...