 | John Lewis Burckhardt - Arabian Peninsula - 1829 - 522 pages
...pace on this occasion ; and many persons make it a complete race, called by the Arabs, Ad'daja min Arafat. In former times, when the strength of the...each party endeavouring to outrun and to carry its tnahmal in advance of the other. The same happened when the mahmals approached the platform at the... | |
 | James Bell - Geography - 1832 - 964 pages
...occasion ; and many persons make it A complete rac«, called by the Arabs, Ad 1 dafa min Arafat. lu former times, when the strength of the Syrian and...balanced, bloody affrays took place here almost every year between them, each party endeavouring to out-run and to carry its mahinal in advance of the other.... | |
 | James Bell - Geography - 1832 - 786 pages
...and many persons make It a complete race, called by the Arabs, A<f dafa min Arafat. In former time», when the strength of the Syrian and Egyptian caravans...balanced, bloody affrays took place here almost every year between them, each party endeavouring to out-run and to carry it« makmal in advance of the other.... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1829 - 618 pages
...thousand hadjys, sitting on their camels below, were provided, bore some resemblance to a verdant plain. strength of the Syrian and Egyptian caravans happened...balanced, bloody affrays took place here almost every year between them, each party endeavouring to out-run and to carry its makmal in advance of the other The... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1829 - 588 pages
...were provided, bore some resemblance to a verdant plain. strength of the Syrian and Egyptian caravan , happened to be nearly balanced, bloody affrays took place here almost every year between them, each party endeavouring to out-run and to carry its maiimal in advance of the other.... | |
 | Sudan - 1918 - 330 pages
...further borne out by the statement made by Burckhardt concerning the position of the mahmal at Mount Arafat in former «times, when the strength of the...balanced, bloody affrays took place here almost every year between them, each party endeavouring to out-run and to carry its mahmal in advance of the other. The... | |
 | Michael Wolfe - History - 1997 - 660 pages
...pace on this occasion, and many persons make it a complete race, called by the Arabs, the Rush from Arafat. In former times, when the strength of the...balanced, bloody affrays took place here almost every year between them, each party endeavouring to outrun and to carry its mahmal in advance ot the other. The... | |
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Arafat. In former times, when the strength of the Syrian and Egyptian caravans happened to be nearly balanced, bloody affrays took place here almost every year betweenthem, each party endeavouring to outrun and to carry its 