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THE different mountains forming the southern chain of the valley of Mekka are: Djebel Fadeh, on the lower part of Djebel Kobeys, nearest to the town El Khandame, likewise part of Djebel Kobeys Djebel el Abyadh, called among the Pagan Arabs Mestebzera, belonging also to Djebel Kobeys Mozazem Korn Meskale, lower ridge of Shab Aamer Djebel Benhan, ibid.
At the northern end of the Ghazze, where the street widens consi-derably, is held a daily market of camels and cows. On the east side, towards the mountain, and partly on its declivity, stands the quarter called Shab Aly, adjoining the Shab el Moled: here is shown the venerated place of Aly's nativity. The houses are spacious, and in an airy situation.
"Or longer than the new lasts," said the other slyly, touching the drapery sleeve of the zephyrine. "It is awful pretty, Marry!" "Yes, and while the new lasts Lufton'll be awful polite," returned Marion. "He likes to see his girls look stylish, I can tell you. When things begin to shab out, then the snubbing begins.
"Any name but dat, you shab," said Black Jack, who was a little round fellow, of about five feet two; "I would not stand to be called Portuguese by Nelson himself."
Djebel Yakyan, on the side of Shab Aamer Djebel el Aaredj, near the latter Djebel el Motabekh, or Shab Aamer; so called because the Toba kings of Yemen, when they invaded Mekka, established here their kitchen Shab Abou Dobb Shab e' Szafa, or Djebel Raha, Shab Beni Kenane Shab el Khor Shab Athmen.
We then entered the mountain in the direction N. 50 E. The mixed rocks of granite and lime-stone present no regular strata. We next passed through a short defile, and, at the end of two hours and a half, entered a small plain called Shab el Hal, between the mountains, where were several encampments of Bedouins.
They don't scamp the broth, and they don't shab the measure. I do wish you could see that refrigerator, oncet. Never been much at sea, have you, mate?" Lemuel said he had never been at sea at all. The other leaned forward with his elbows on each side of his bowl, and lazily broke his hard-tack into it. "Well, I have. I was shipped when I was about eleven years old by a shark that got me drunk.
This street, as it proceeds, adopts the name of Haret Souk el Leyl, which comprises an extensive quarter on the East, where the Moled e' Nebby, or Prophet's birth-place, is shown, and which adjoins the Moamele, or establishment of the potteries. The by-streets close to the Moled are denominated Shab el Moled, or "Rocks of the Moled," the ground which rises here being covered with stones.
I have seen many who had come by that route; they appeared to be men of a much better and more vigorous character than the gene-rality of Indians. Opposite to this quarter El Soleymanye, on the eastern mountain, and adjoining the Ghazze and Shab Aly, is a half-ruined district, called Shab Aamer, inhabited by Bedouin pedlars of the Thekyf and Koreysh tribes, and by a few poor sherif families.
The Arabian poets make frequent allusions to Shab Aamer; thus Ibn el Faredh says: "Is Shab Aamer, since we left it, still inhabited? Opposite to this building, a paved causeway leads towards the western hills, through which is an opening that seems artificial.
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