Copy 1, Volume 1

Travels in Arabia, comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred / By the late John Lewis Burckhardt.

  • Johann Ludwig Burckhardt
Date:
1829
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Travels in Arabia, comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred / By the late John Lewis Burckhardt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    rRAVELS IN THE HEDJAZ OF ARABIA. DJIDDA. My arrival in the Hedjaz was attended with some unfavourable circumstances. On entering the town of Djidda, in the morning of the 15th of July, 1814, I went to the house of a person on whom I had a letter of credit, delivered to me, at my departure from Cairo, in January, 1813, when I had not yet fully resolved to extend my travels into Arabia. From this person I met with a very cold reception ; the letter was thought to be of too old a date to deserve notice : indeed? my ragged appearance might have rendered any one cautious how he committed himself
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