 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1855 - 456 pages
...as they did a loose heap of stones sufficient for a grave. In Burckhardt'a time the whole place was a "confused accumulation of heaps of earth, wide pits,...rubbish, without a single regular tombstone." The present erections owe their existence, I was told, to the liberality of the Sultans Abd El Hamid and... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1856 - 514 pages
...as they did a loose heap of stones sufficient for a grave. In Burckhardt's time the whole place was a "confused accumulation of heaps of earth, wide pits,...rubbish, without a single regular tomb-stone." The present erections owe their existence, I was told, to the liberality of the Sultans Abd El Hamid and... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1857 - 482 pages
...loose heap of stones sufficient for a grave. In Burckhardt's time the whole place was a " contused accumulation of heaps of earth, wide pits, and rubbish, without a single regular tombstone." The present erections owe their existence, I was told, to the liberality of the Sultans Abd el Hamid and... | |
 | 1857 - 884 pages
...countries, where burial is swift and almost indecent, and the grave-yard, as Burckhardt described this, "a confused accumulation of heaps of earth, wide pits, and rubbish, without a single rectangular tomb-stone." Here many a sad pilgrimage finds its end. The poor pilgrim has gone on his... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton, Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1879 - 576 pages
...as they did a loose heap of stones sufficient for a grave. In Hurckhardt's time the whole place was a "confused accumulation of heaps of earth, wide pits,...rubbish, without a single regular tombstone." The present erections owe their existence, I was told, to the liberality of the Sultans Abd el-Humid and... | |
 | Georgiana M. Stisted - Exploradors - 1896 - 446 pages
...as they did, a loose heap of stones sufficient for a grave. In Burckhardt's time the whole place was a confused accumulation of heaps of earth, wide pits,...and rubbish, without a single regular tombstone. The present erections owe their existence to the liberality of the Sultans Abd el-Hamid and Mahmud. Our... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1906 - 510 pages
...as they did a loose heap of stones sufficient for a grave. In Burckhardt's time the whole place was a "confused accumulation of heaps of earth, wide pits, and rubbish, without a singular regular tombstone." The present erections owe their existence, I was told, to the liberality... | |
 | F. E. Peters - Religion - 1996 - 460 pages
...to the niggardly minds of the townspeop/e, who are little disposed to incur any expense in honoring the remains of their celebrated countrymen. The whole...confused accumulation of heaps of earth, wide pits, rubbish, without a single regular tomb-stone. . . . The most conspicuous personages that lie buried... | |
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... new. Th'e ancient monuments were levelled to the ground by Saad the Wahhabi and his puritan followers, who waged pitiless warfare against what must have appeared to them magnificent mausolea, deeming as they did a loose heap of stones sufficient for... 