Christians at Mecca by Augustus 1875- Ralli

Author:Augustus 1875- Ralli [Ralli, Augustus 1875-]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781360809915
Goodreads: 32353674
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Published: 2016-09-09T21:00:00+00:00

i 4 4 CHRISTIANS AT MECCA

set out to join the Ouled-ben-AH caravan. It was composed of 400 pilgrims and 1000 camels. Roches was received with great courtesy by the chief.

The outer incidents of the journey were few. Roches, preoccupied with his mission, refrained from observations. He apologises for the detail with which he has described the Fettoua, on the ground that it may possess historic value. Should a champion of Islam arise in the future and threaten European supremacy, it might be possible to learn from the past the best means of moral and material resistance. An occasional skirmish with Bedouin interrupted his meditations ; or a more than usually startling feature of plain or mountain. Among the last was the western chain of Akaba : the aspect of the rocks suggested the image of chaos.

At Yambu Roches conversed with some mer- chant friends of Ibrahim, who gave him infor- mation on the treatment of Algerian pilgrims. He was himself shocked at the appearance of those who arrived by sea. Two hundred were packed into a ship that could scarcely have contained fifty. They were fed upon dry biscuit and sufficient water to prevent death from thirst. Those who died of hunger or suffocation were despoiled and thrown overboard.

The agreement with the first Mekowem now terminated. Another was hired for ^44 to provide camels to Medina and Mecca. When Medina came in sight, and the indented towers that flank the walls appeared through the trees,

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