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Title: Journey through Arabia Petraea, to Mount Sinai, and the excavated city of Petra, the edom of the prophesis
Year: 1836 (1830s)
Authors: Laborde, Léon, marquis de, 1807-1869 Murray, John, 1778-1843, publisher Spottiswoode, Andrew, printer Day & Haghe, lithographer
Subjects: Fouilles (Archéologie)
Publisher: London : John Murray, Albemarle Street
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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een sufficientlyaware of the results that would have followed froman actual sanguinary combat, which would mostprobably have given rise to family feuds, or to awar amongst the whole tribe, — an eventual dangeralways hanging over them, and calculated torestrain within the limits of mutual respect thatcountless multitude, who, without laws, authorities,police, or any form of government, have subsistedthrough ages, still preserving the same sort oforganization, in the midst of empires once firmlyconstituted, which have, nevertheless, fallen intodecay. I have obsevved in use also amongst them asandal formed of fish skin, such as may be purchasedat Tor, and which I myself wore during my jour-ney ; a wooden box for containing pounded coffee,a plain tobacco pipe, and a tobacco bag made ofthe skin of the lizard. We followed the coast as far as Wady Outir ;then, entering that valley, we ascended to thenorth, and descended by Wady Safran, towardsSinai, by the only passage which is to be found
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M. LINANT. HUSSEIN. 217 through the long chain of Tih. This is the routewhich pilgrims and travellers have always taken ongoing from Gaza to Mount Sinai. M. Linant having received, by our messenger, let-ters which rendered it necessary for him to returnto Cairo, we were compelled to separate ; for I wasanxious to complete the tour which I had under-taken, and to finish the exploration of the wholepeninsula, especially in an archaiological and topo-graphical point of view. It was arranged that M.Linant should take with him M. Petitjean, Toualeb,and another guide, and that I should keep Husseinand the other Tohrats. Hussein, whom I have often mentioned, was ofthe tribe of Oualed Said. An excellent warriorand huntei-, and renowned for his generous hospi-tality, he united in himself all the qualities whichrender a Bedouin respectable ; especially those ofso much importance to the traveller, unimpeachableintegrity, discretion which always deserved to beconfided in, and, what is very rare,

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