Travels In Arabia By  John Lewis Burckhardt

























































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Several Persons Keep Watch Over The Shoes, For Which They Expect A Small Present; But The Vicinity Of The Holy Temple Does Not Intimidate The Dishonest, For I Lost Successively From This Spot Three New Pairs Of Shoes; And The Same Thing Happens To Many Hadjys.

I have now described all the buildings within the enclosure of the Temple.

[The ground-plan of the Temple given by Aly Bey el Abbassi is perfectly correct. This cannot be said of his plan of Mekka, nor of his different views in the Hedjaz: a comparison of my description with his work will show in what points I differ from him, as well in regard to the temple, as to the town and its inhabitants. His travels came to my hands after I had returned from Arabia. The view of the mosque given by d'Ohsson, in his valuable work, is tolerably correct, except that the Kaaba is too large in proportion to the rest of the building. The view of the town of Mekka, on the contrary, is very unfaithful. That in Niebuhr, which was copied from an ancient Arabic drawing, is less accurate than d'Ohsson's. The original seems to have been taken before the last alterations made in the buildings of the Temple.]

The gravel-ground, and part of the adjoining outer pavement of the Kaaba, is covered, at the time of evening prayers, with carpets of from sixty to eighty feet in length, and four feet in breadth, of Egyptian manufacture, which are rolled up after prayers.

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