The Land of Midian (Revisited) Volume II Part 33

[EN#70] Ahmed Kaptan's solar observation.

[EN#71] Written in pleasant memory of two visits to Uriconium, the favourite "find" of poor Thomas Wright, under the guidance of our steadfast and hospitable friend, Mr. Henry Wace, of Brooklands, Shrewsbury.

[EN#72] The capital was also transported to Cairo; it could not have been voluted as there were only two projections.

[EN#73] Lib. xvi. c. iv. -- 24. The MSS. differ in the name of the "village situated on the sea;" some call it Egra, others Negra, after the inland settlement; and the commentator Kramer remarks, Mire corrupta est h?c ultima libri pars.

[EN#74] North lat. 26, which would correspond with that of the Aba'l-Maru' ruins.

[EN#75] My friend Sprenger strongly protests against aelius Gallus, begging me to abandon him, as the Romans must long have held the whole coast to El-Haura, their chief settlement.

[EN#76] For a specimen of the superficiality which characterizes Lane's "Modern Egyptians," and of the benefits which, despite the proverbial difficulty of changing an old book into a new one, an edition, much enlarged and almost rewritten, would confer upon students, see Vol. III. Chap. XXI. Instead of a short abstract of all this celebrated story, we have only popular excerpts from the first volume.

[EN#77] On the maritime road between Meccah and El-Medinah, celebrated for the apostolic battle which took place in A.H. 2.

[EN#78] The names marked with interrogations are unknown to all the Arabs whom I consulted : they are probably obsolete.

[EN#79] Identified by Niebuhr and Wellsted with certains ruins south of Yambu'. See Chap. IV.

[EN#80] The straight path, the highway to Egypt or Cairo.

[EN#81] Elsewhere called Sukyat Yezid, a name now forgotten.

[EN#82] I have remarked that the name of the Patriarch Jacob is no longer connected with the Bada plain.

[EN#83] Schweinfurth (the Athenaeum, July 6, 1878) speaks of a "Wadi Abu Marwa ('Quartz Valley')" south of the Galalah block.

[EN#84] Chap. IX.

[EN#85] A paper describing our "finds" was read before the Anthropological Section of the British a.s.sociation Meeting at Dublin on August 21, 1878, and subsequently before the Anthropological Inst.i.tute of London (December 10, 1878).

[EN#86] The following was the announcement offered to the public:--

"La collection mineralogique et archeologique rapportee par le Capitaine Burton, de sa seconde Expedition au pays de Midian, est exposee dans les salles de l'Hippodrome, avant d'etre envoyee a l'Exposition Universelle de Paris, sous la direction de M. G.

Marie, inge'nieur des mines.

"La salle du sud renferme les croquis et les aquarelles faits par M. E. Lacaze.

"La partie du nord commence avec Akabah, point extreme atteint par l'Expedition; elle contient les resultats du premier voyage de l'Expedition, c'est-a-dire: Sherma, Djebel el-Abiat, Aynouneh, Moghair-Schuaib, Mokna et Akabah.

"Le mur de l'est contient tout ce qui se rapporte a la seconde exploration, c'est-a-dire l'Hisma et le grand ma.s.sif du Sharr.

"Le mur du sud contient les princ.i.p.aux points de vue pris au sud du pays de Midian: Wedje, la forteresse, la montagne de Omm-el-Karayat, travaillee par les anciens, la mine de Omm el-Harab, le temple antique, etc., etc.

"Sur la table sont les medailles et la collection anthropologique fait par le Capitaine Burton.

"La salle du nord contient la collection geologique et mineralogique faite par M. G. Marie; les mineraux sont cla.s.ses suivant l'ordre des pays parcourus, c'est-a-dire en commencant a Akabah et finissant au Ouadi Hamz, frontiere du Hedjaz.

"Tout autour de la salle sont rangees les vingt caisses contenant des echantillons que Son Altesse le Khedive envoie en Angleterre pour y etre a.n.a.lyses. Pres de la porte de l'est sont places les restes du temple de l'Ouadi Hamz, les moulins pour ecraser le quartz, les briques refractaires, et enfin les inscriptions Nabatheennes.

"Dans les loges de l'Hippodrome, derriere les deux salles, sont deposes environ quinze tonnes d'echantillons, destines a etre a.n.a.lyses par une Commission locale, nommee par Son Altesse le Khedive."

[EN#87] M. Marie, 35 12s.; Haji Wali, 23; M. Philipin, 12 4s.; M. Lacaze, 3 16s.

[EN#88] Starting with a hundred camels and three Shaykhs.

[EN#89] For all hands.

[EN#90] Includes "bakhshish."

[EN#91] Sixty-one camels, four Shaykhs.

[EN#92] For all hands.

[EN#93] Fifty camels, three Shaykhs.

[EN#94] For all hands.

[EN#95] Got from Mukhbir.

[EN#96] Fifty-eight camels, three Shaykhs.

[EN#97] For all hands.

[EN#98] Includes "bakhshish."

[EN#99] Six months' pay.

[EN#100] Four months.

[EN#101] Four months and a half.

[EN#102] Employed on special service.

End of The Land of Midian, (Revisited) By Richard F. Burton, Volume 2.