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Updated: May 3, 2025
Their eyes were beholding unutterable rainbows, flashings and burning glows like those of the Moslem's own Jebel Radhwa, or Mountain of Paradise. Each of these jewels several million gems, at the least computation what a story it might have told! What a tale of remotest antiquity, of wild adventures and romance, of love, hate, death!
"It shall be truth, by the Prophet's beard! What doth the Master ask of me?" "Is it a large city, Rrisa?" "Very large." "And beautiful?" "As the Jebel Radhwa!" "Thou hast been in that secret city, Rrisa?" "Once, Master. The wonderful sight still remaineth in mine eyes." "And, seeing the Iron Mountains again, thou couldst guide us thither?" "Allah forbid! That is among the black deeds, Master!
British goods, he very wisely calculated, could not be commandeered without recompense The packet was lashed to a camel-goad which was driven into the sand, and Nissr once more got slowly under way. All eyes were now on the barren chalk and sandstone coasts of the Red Sea, beyond which dimly rose the castellated peaks of Jebel Radhwa.
At Mahar, one of the places where they landed, Burton injured his foot with a poisonous thorn, which made him lame for the rest of the pilgrimage. Presently the welcome profile of Radhwa came in view, the mountain of which the unfortunate Antar sang so plaintively: "Did Radhwa strive to support my woes, Radhwa itself would be crushed by the weight,"
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