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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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ssof the water, the bottom cannot be seen. Seet-zens guides misinformed him when they statedthat they could walk across to the island whenthe tide was out. No European had visited thisisland since the time of the crusades. Neither hadany of the natives set foot upon it; unless, indeed,a fisherman, having nothing else to do, might havebeen tempted to such an enterprise by the hopeof finding treasure there. An Arab could be in-duced by no other motive to encounter any risk inattempting to explore its ruins. Our voyage was not wholly free from danger,as none of us were sufficiently practised in swim-ming to venture out a mile at sea. We all assisted,however, in guiding our frail skiff, and were care-ful to maintain its balance. Our Arabs remainedon the shore watching the result of our enter-prise, in which we completely succeeded. Welanded to the left of a bastion which overlooks avalley; but before going farther into the island wetook in on) raft over the wall to guard againstaccidents.
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112 We had brought with us a large flag, which weresolved to plant on the highest bastion of theisland; and leaving on the right a small tower,we passed through the ruins of the outer wall:I then found, that I had committed a serious mis-take in leaving my sandals behind. Accustomedas I was to walk barefooted on the burning sands,I had not given a thought to the sharp-pointedfragments through which I was now obliged totread my way amidst these remains of a formerage ; but it could not be remedied; and I passedon as well as 1 could, amongst fallen stones, by arapid descent towards an opening which we per-ceived in the inner wall. It would be difficult forthe reader to imagine the strange and savage ap-pearance which M. Linant and I presented, whileI carried the flag, and my friend marched on be-fore me, as if we were going to storm this fortressof the desert, now become a desert itself. Weentered by the right of a ruined bastion, througha small square which led to the middle of thefort

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