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An immense plain lay before and around us, in which, however, there was some undulating ground. Passed a good stone bridge; were supplied with water near a large Arab encampment, around which were many droves of camels; turned up several hares, partridges, and gazelles.
Let us listen to the story of the cup of coffee: In a book published in 1566 by an Arab scholar on the virtues of coffee it is stated that a knowledge of coffee was first brought to Arabia from Abyssinia about the year 1400 by a pious man whose tomb is still venerated in Yemen. The knowledge of coffee spread from Yemen in south Arabia over the whole world.
Perhaps you know a little poem of Browning's called "An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experiences of Karshish, the Arab Physician."
"This evening I counted seven elephants on the east side of the river on the table lands. "To-day the Arabs kept one of their holy feasts; accordingly, a sheep was slaughtered as a sacrifice, with an accompaniment of music and singing, i.e. howling to several guitars. "The Arab system of an offering is peculiar.
He had built for her a riverside hut in the compound where she dwelt in perfect seclusion. Lakamba's visits had ceased when, by a convenient decree of Providence and the help of a little scientific manipulation, the old ruler of Sambir departed this life. Lakamba reigned in his stead now, having been well served by his Arab friends with the Dutch authorities.
He sat quite silent, staring at his friend, who yet in some indefinable way seemed such a total stranger. "By Jove, Carden," he said at last, "I didn't know you had " He stopped, confused, horrified at the words which had almost escaped him. "Turned native, Kelham? I haven't. I am an Arab, a Mohammedan by birth.
Vance stood within touching distance of his body. He had stolen up like a ghostly Arab, must have followed him, too, some little distance, for further down the passage the light of an open door he had passed it on his way showed where he came from. "Eh? I beg your pardon? A compass, did you say?" He felt disconcerted for a moment. How short the man was, now that he saw him standing.
Among the date-groves are some Arab huts belonging to the cultivators of the soil, chiefly of the Lahyan tribe; the more wealthy of them belong to the tribe of the Sherifs of Mekka, called Dwy Barakat, who live here like Bedouins, in tents and huts. They have a few cattle; their cows, like all those of the Hedjaz, are small, and have a hump on their shoulders.
By and by the Arab waking Looks directly for his signal Sees it on another's ankle Cries aloud, "Oh, good-for-nothing Rascal to perplex me so, That by you I am bewildered, Whether I be I or no! If I the pumpkin why on you! If You then where am I, and who?"
They examined my shoes, turned up my gaiters, stuck their fingers down my collar, and wished to undress me, so I rose and said very civilly, 'Peace to you, oh women, I am going to sleep now, and retired. Arab girls before they enter the harem and take the veil are a curious sight to behold.
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