Title | Picturesque Palestine, Sinai, and Egypt, Vol. 2 |
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Publisher | D. Appleton and Company |
Date | 1883 |
Description | Index: Phoenicia and Lebanon / by the Rev. H. W. Jessup -- The Phoenician plain / by the Rev. Canon Tristram -- Acre, the key of Palestine, Mount Carmel and the river Kishon, Maritime cities and plains of Palestine / by Miss M. E. Rogers -- Lydda and Ramleh, Philistia / By Lt. Col. Warren -- The south country of Judaea / by the Rev. Canon Tristram -- The southern borderland and Dead Sea / by Professor Palmer -- Mount Hor and the cliffs of Edom, The convent of St. Catherine / by Miss M. E. Rogers -- Sinai / by the Rev. C. P. Clarke -- The land of Goshen, Cairo, Memphis, Thebes, Edfu and Philae / by S. Lane-Poole. |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Location | DS107 .W73 v.2 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1703789~S11 |
Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
Identifier | exotic_201304_015 |
Title | Page 283 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_015_306.jpg |
Transcript | SINAI. 283 portions of the sea which border a powerful coast are rightfully said to belong to this or that flag, whose symbol must be respected by ships trafficking there, unless they are strong enough dispute its rights, so the desert where it adjoins and touches the confines of orderly govern- to ment becomes amenable to the laws of that government. Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, Egypt, Syria, &c, exercise a certain coercive authority over the Arab tribes which come within their territorial jurisdiction for the purposes of trade or pasture. The Sultans of Shomar, of the Wahhabee, THE ROCKS AT SARABIT EL KHADIM; AND THE TEMPLE ENCLOSURE. . There are two temples, of different dates. The one not shown here is formed of two chambers and of Oman— in Central excavated in the rock, having a walled continuation in front. . and Eastern Arabia Proper- in like manner wield a considerable amount of real power. Within these governments the Arab is seen almost at his best, and becomes a foil to the Bedawy. The nomade tribes, without real country, without much honour, without perceptible religion, whose only object in |