See Asclepias Gigantea Sinai, Mount, I. 202 Sinaitic Tribes Of Arabs, Modern, Observations On, I. 145, Et Seq. Chief Clans

Of, 145 Impurity of the race, 146 Their ferocity, 147 How manageable, 147 Sind, dry storms of, i. 247, 265

Singapore, pilgrims from, to Meccah, i. 179 Silat al-Rasul, referred to, i. 384, n. Sittna Zaynab (our Lady Zaynab), Mosque of, at Cairo, i. 98 Siyuti, Al-, his theological works, i. 106, n. Sketching, dangerous among the Badawin, i. 240 Slaves, trade in, at Jeddah and in Egypt, i. 47 Reform in our slave laws throughout the East much needed, 49 Abyssinian slave, style of courting, 59 Slave-hunting in Africa, 60 Condition of slaves in the East, 61 The black slave-girls of Al-Madinah, ii. 12 Value of slave-boys and of eunuchs, 12 Value of the Galla girls, 13 Price of a Jariyah Bayza, or white slave-girl, 13 Female slaves at Meccah, 233 The slave-market of Meccah, 252 The pilgrim’s resolve, if permitted, to destroy the slave-trade, 252 Ease with which the slave-trade may be destroyed in the Red Sea, 252 Small-pox in Arabia. See Judari Smith, Sir L., his defeat of the Beni Bu Ali Arabs, i. 248 Smoking the weed “hashish,” i. 44 Soap, tafl or bole earth used by the Arabs as, i. 415 Sobh Badawin, their plundering propensities, ii. 58 [p.470] Societies, secret, in Egypt, i. 113 Sodom, the long-sought apple of, ii. 138, n. Sola, plain of, near Meccah, ii. 148 Soldier-travellers, fatalities which have befallen them lately, i. 1 Soldiers in Egypt, i. 118 Solomon, King, i. 212 Mosque of, at Jerusalem, connected with, 305 Somalis, dislike of, to tobacco, i. 194, n. Foundation of the tribe, 344, n. Songs of the Badawi Arabs, i. 145 Of Maysunah, ii. 190 Specimen of one, 223 Sonnini, his description of the “Kayf,” i. 9, n. Reference to, 299 His testimony to the virtues of the Harim, ii. 91, n. Sophia’s, St., at Constantinople, the largest Cathedral in the world, i. 364, n. Spanish cathedrals, Oriental origin of, i. 307 Spears (Kanat), of the Badawin, ii. 106 Sports of the Badawin, ii. 104 Springs of Mount Ohod, i. 423, n. Stanhope, Lady Hester, her faith in magic mirrors, i. 288, n. Statuary and pictures forbidden in Mosques, i. 94 Stimulants, effects of drinking, in the East, i. 265, n. Stoa, or Academia, of Al-Madinah, i. 338 Stocks, Dr., of Bombay, reference to, i. 246, n. Stone, obtained near Meccah, ii. 295, n. That of Panopolis, 296 Stone-worship, ii. 301, n. Storm, description of one at Muna, ii. 218 Dry storms of Arabia, i. 247 Streets, of Al-Madinah, i. 392 Students, Moslem, i. 104, n. Wretched prospects, 108 Sudan (Blacksland), i. 177 Suez (Suways), a place of obstacle to pilgrims, i. 128 Safety of the Desert road to, 156 Its want of sweet water, 158, n. Its brackish wells, 158, n. No hammam (or bath) at, 158, n. Number of caravanserais of, 159, n. Want of comfort in them all, 159, n. The farzah, or system of rotation, in the port of, 170, 178 Exorbitant rate of freight at, 170, n. The George Inn at (see George Inn), 173, et seq.

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