Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - Route in Northern Arabia
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
[-i-]{+Dr. Wallin’s Route in Northern Arabia.
5
i+} = yei preceded by kisr, pronounced as i in machine,
y = yei with shaddd’ i. c. doubled,
a and e = filth.
u = dammtl, pronounced as u in ptst.
i = kisr, pronounced as i in miss; but = y as in yet, if
preceded by anpther i, or by an d, or if followed by an a or
an —A.
I left Kahira (Kahirah) towards the close of the year 1847,
and following the road which leads a little above the town of
Suweis * (Suweis), across the tidal flats * at the extreme head of
the Gulf of Suweis, and thence along the western shore of the
Sina (Sina) peninsula, after a journey of 8 days I arrived at
al-Toor (Tur). As al-Toor (Tur) is a port at which vessels
navigating this gulf of the Red Sea seldom fail to touch, I had
calculated upon readily procuring a passage across from it to some
point on the neighbouring coast of Arabia hut it happened to
be the period of return of the Egyptian hagg j (hajj) from Mekka
(Mekkah), and I found, in consequence, that any of the usual
trading vessels between Egypt and al-Higaz (Hijaz) which would
arrive at al-Toor (Tur) were expected from the south, and that
several weeks might elapse before one would leave Suweis hound
for the Arabian coast; I therefore determined, after some days’
fruitless stay in al-Toor (Tur), to proceed by land along the
southern shore of the peninsula, as far as al-Sliami, between
which place and Arabia I had been assured by the Bedouins of
the neighbourhood of al-Toor that there was a constant
communication by sea. I reached al-Shann in 2J- days, and was then told
by the fishermen living there that the Egyptian pilgrim-karawan
having been reported to have reached Muweilah on its way home,
all the boats belonging to the Bedooins of this coast were on that
side of the gulf, excepting one expected from the Egyptian shore,
with provisions for the pilgrims. Towards midnight this boat
came in ; but its master, being afraid of reaching Muweilah too
late for the karaw&n, landed here for a few minutes only, and
continued his voyage without my hearing of his arrival before the
following morning. Thus, again disappointed, and not feeling
inclined to make the long circuit of the Gulf of ’Akaba (’Akabah),
Iliad no other alternative than to wait for the first returning boat;
so resigning myself to necessity, I took up my abode with two
Bedouin fishermen of the Muzeine (Muzeineh) Arabs, on the
* See notes on Suweis aud head of the Red Sea at the end of the paper.—A.
t The Sind peninsula is not considered properly a part of Arabia although a
land of the Arabs. Niebuhr says (Description de 1’Arable, p. 344), “The Arabian
name of the country situated towards the north of the llcgfut. between the two anus
of the Arabian Gulf, is called, I believe, ‘ Barr al-Toor Siu8,’ the desert of Mount
Sinai (or perhaps, more correctly, ‘ the laud of Mount Sinai’ ”).—A.
J Pilgrim karawtln.—A.
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
