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Thus the hunt was up on both flanks, the infantry for the most part following the coast route and the Hedjaz column riding via Der'aa. In the centre, with a long start, the cavalry who had poured through the first gap in the Turkish line were still riding hard after the enemy.
This square is composed of three large buildings, the most commodious and costly private houses in all the Hedjaz. Of these cisterns, the water is very inadequate to the consumption of Djidda, and is reckoned a delicacy.
The annual revenue of Ghaleb, during the plenitude of his power, may have amounted to about three hundred and fifty thousand pounds sterling; but, since the occupation of the Hedjaz by the Wahabys, it has probably not exceeded half that sum.
Of the most common sorts are the Djebely, the cheapest, and I believe the most universally spread in the Hedjaz; the Heloua; the Heleya, a very small date, not larger than a mulberry; it has its name from its extraordinary sweetness, in which it does not yield to the finest figs from Smyrna, and like them is covered, when dried, by a saccharine crust.
"Whenever the Sherif Ghaleb wanted a loan of money," observed one of the first merchants of the Hedjaz to me, "he sent for three or four of us; we sat in close discourse with him for a couple of hours, often quarrelling loudly, and we always reduced the sum to something much less than was at first demanded.
If Suez were to participate in the direct Indian trade, the present flourishing state of Djidda would, no doubt, be greatly diminished, and the town would become merely what its position renders it, the harbour of the Hedjaz, instead of being, as it now is, the port of Egypt.
The editor, that he might ascertain by what boundaries we are justified in supposing Hedjaz to be separated from other provinces of Arabia, consulted a multiplicity of authors, both European and Oriental. The result, however, of his inquiry has not proved satisfactory; for to each of the neighbouring countries.
The angel Gabriel was despatched to him with that short chapter of the Koran, which we call the ninety- fourth, beginning with the words "Have we not gladdened thy breast?" the previous chapter alludes also to his state of grief. I may here add, that a great many mountains and valleys in the Hedjaz have lost their ancient names.
In giving this general character of the Medinans, I do not found it merely on the short experience I had of them in their own town, but upon information acquired from many individuals, natives of Medina, whom I met in every part of the Hedjaz. They appear to be as expensive as the Mekkans.
They are in direct intercourse with all the harbours of Hindostan, and can often afford to undersell their competitors. Many of them, as has been already observed, are stationary here, while others are constantly travelling backward and forward between India and the Hedjaz.
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