el-fa'idi

Updated: May 8, 2025

The dwarf valley-mouth is still a roadstead, where two small craft were anchored; and here, doubtless, was the corner of the hive allotted to the community's working-bees. An old fibster, Hamid el-Fa'idi, declared that he would bring us from the adjacent hills a stone which, when heated, would pour forth metal like water and never appeared again.

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