el-fayruz

Updated: May 7, 2025

I then received the notables, including Mohammed Selamah of El-Wijh, and at once began to inquire about the Jebel el-Fayruz. The chief trader pleaded ignorance: he was a stranger, a new-comer; he had never been out of the settlement. The others opposed to me hard and unmitigated Iying: they knew nothing about turquoises; there were no such stones; the mines were exhausted.

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