alayan

Updated: May 17, 2025

The two Shaykhs, 'Alayan and Hasan el-'Ukbi, were to be paid off end dismissed with due ceremony; provisions were to be brought from the fort to the cove; useless implements to be placed in store; mules to be embarked no joke without a pier! and last, but not least, the ballastless Mukhbir was to be despatched with a mail for Suez.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - The Land of Midian — Volume 2

The second part covered fifty-five miles, besides the ascent of the mountain to a height of about five thousand feet: the mapper also increased this figure to 59 2/3. Thus the route-line shows a grand total of 252 to 281 2/3 in direct statute miles. The number of camels engaged from Shaykhs 'Alayan and Hasan was sixty-one; and the hire, according to Mr.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - The Land of Midian — Volume 2