He Was A Native Of Some
Place Near Sanaa; And As The Pilgrimage Or Hadj El Kebsy Had Been For
Some years interrupted, and he could not afford a passage by sea to
Djidda, he undertook this route, which is
Practicable even in these
critical times to those who can pass unsuspected in the character of
pilgrims. He was every where treated with hospitality. On his arrival at
a village he proceeded to the Mesdjed or mosque, and recited some
chapter of the Koran: the Arab inhabitants then inquired who he was, and
supplied him with plenty of flour, milk, raisins, meat, &c. He was never
stopped by robbers until he reached the advanced posts of Mohammed Aly's
Turkish army; there he was plundered by some soldiers of all his
provisions. He could not mark exactly each day's journey, because he
loitered about from one settlement to another, waiting often several
days that he might have companions on the road. The journey occupied him
altogether three months. He supported himself at Mekka by singing,
during the night, before the houses of wealthy pilgrims, some verses in
honour of the propbet and of the pilgrimage. His route was as follows: -
El Tayf - Beni Sad, Arabs - Naszera, Arabs - Begyle (or Bedjele), a market-
place - Rebah, a market-place - El Mandak, in the Zohran country - El Bekaa,
in the Zohran country - Raghdan, in the district of the Ghamed Arabs -
Ghamed, Arabs - Sollebat, inhabited by Ghamed Arabs and those called
Khotham, a very ancient tribe that flourished in the beginning of Islam -
Shomran, Arabs - Bel Korn - Ibn Dohman, an Arab tribe so called - Ibn el
Ahmar, another Arab tribe - Ibn el Asmar, an Arab tribe - The country here
is called after the inhabitants, which my informer had not forgotten,
although he did not always recollect the names of the villages through
which he passed in the districts of each tribe - Asyr; this tribe is now
united with the three former under one head - The Asyr chief, El Tamy,
proved the steadiest antagonist of Mohammed Aly:
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