AAR

'Abd-el-Kereem a Riad Wahhabee pa-
tient, ii. 3; his statement of Wahha-
bee doctrines, 10; attempts to evade
payment, 16

Aboo-'Eysa, his history, i. 288; our ar-
rangements with him, 296; his as-
sistance at Riad, 416, 420; his house
at Hofhoof, ii. 141

Abyssinia, coffee from, i. 426; the Him-

yarites, Abyssinian colonists, ii. 240
Administration of law in Arabia: courts

of justice, i. 79, 181; capital charges,
229; punishments, 135, 181; execu-
tions, ii. 25; rarity of, i. 134; the
Kadee, 228

Aflaj, the province of, ii. 79; trade with
Yemen, 81

'Akabah, Arabic for an ascent, i. 346
Arabia, object of author's journey into,
i. 1; population, 117, 193; civiliza-
tion, 75, 166; ethnology, 352, 453;
habits and cnstoms, 51, 73, 183, 268;
commercial habits, 69, 263; national
characteristics, 24, 35, 70, 175; en-

ARC

vious character of, ii. 135; position of
women among, i. 271; patriotism,
194; historical notices of, 117, 239;
religious feelings, 68; early religion,
249; relics of Sabæanism, 250; traces
of ancient Christianity in, 88; the
Wahhabees, 363; mode of warfare,
306; external features of Central
Arabia, 230-235; absence of rivers,
339; the water supply of, ii. 176;
extent of cultivable land, i. 91;
Christianity not a bar to travelling
in, 264; Bedouin tribes, 30, 441;
European accounts, 136, 425; inac-
curacies, ii. 162; administration of
justice, i. 134, 228; uncertainty of
historical chronology, ii. 40; music,
and general tone of Arab voices, i.
309; different races in, 453; con-
fused nomenclature of towns and
places, ii. 127; diseases, 27; absence
of insects and snakes in, 355. (See
also Architecture, Language)
Arab sailors, ii. 199; adoption of foreign
words by, 298

soldiers on the march, ii. 128
Arabs, not a nervous race, ii. 35
Architecture, description of an Arab
house, i. 49; general characteristics,
283; dearth of inscriptions and
carved work in Central Arabia, 301;
tower and castle in the Djowf, 75;
the Cyclopean arch, 176; ancient
mosques, 444; house and castle in
Bereydah, 280, 282; palace, &c. at
Riad, 396; in Hofhoof, ii. 149; of
Southern Arabia, 151, 167; the

ASR

palace at Kateef, 191; rib-vaulting
in the Karmoot palace, 192; at
Bahreyn, 209; tower at Sharjah,
308; 'Omanee architecture, 330
'Asr, a division of time in the East, i.
178

Assassination, approval of by all sects of
Shiya'ees, ii. 41

Astronomy, in 'Oman, ii. 263
Awwal (sharks) used as food, ii. 321;
name misapplied to Bahreyn, 321

BAHREYN, the islands of, ii. 203;

traces of Christianity among, 146;
the rulers of, 201; its capital, 204;
its population and government, 211;
currency, 207; handicrafts, &c., 214;
character of population, 366; voyage
to Katar, 229

Banians in 'Oman, ii. 369; anecdote of

a Banian and a Nejdean, 370
Barr-Faris, Arab colony on the east
coast of Persian Gulf, ii. 244; origin
of, 245; description, 246; chief town
of, 251
Bathah-Farzah, the 'Omanee king's
palace, arrival at, after the shipwreck,
ii. 351; our reception there, 355; con-
versation with officers, deserters from
the Turkish army, 357; leave for
Mascat, 359

COF

Bedouins in Hasa, 185; the pirate
Bedouins on the Persian Gulf, 234;
Ajman Bedouins crushed by the
Wahhabees, 71; Bedouins preceded
in battle by a maiden, ib.

Bells, anathematized by Mahomet, i. 429
Benoo-Kahtan. See Kahtanic race
Bereydah, conquest of, by Feysul, i. 168;
first view of, 270; described, 280;
lodgings at, 281; difficulty of further
advance from, 284; street scenes, 299;
social life at, 309, 314; warfare, 306;
journey from Bereydah to Riad, 323–
388; the meeting with the Persian
ambassador, 346

Biadeeyah, the name adopted by the

'Omanees, ii. 262; form of their re-
ligion, 263; Niebuhr's account, 265
Blacksmith's shop at Ha'yel described,
i. 165

Botany, notices of: colocynth, i. 12;
samh, 29; mesaa', 30; ghada, 38;
narcotic plants, 254; other plants,
232; cotton, 254; themām, a grass,
332

Bread, forms of, in Arabia, i. 73; in the
south-east portion, 355

Bushire, properly called Aboo-Shahr,
i. 275

326; its produce, &c., 327

Bedaa', chief town of Katar, ii. 235;
expeditions along the coast, 237; a
hawking party, 238; leave for 'Omān,
243

Bedouins, a specimen of their conversa-
tion, i. 25; religion and morality of, 8,
32; slight impress of Mahometanism
on, 9; characteristics of, 3, 33; pre-
cautions in use as guides, 41; mode
of dealing with, 93; customs, food,
&c., of, 23-30; condition of, in Central
Arabia, 31, 193; tribe of Christian
origin, 150; their forays in the lower
Nejed, 223; the Bedouins under the
Wahhabees, iL 78, 84; in the Great

Desert, ii. 133, 234; manners of the

price, 85, 451; difference between,
and dromedaries, 324; the two-
humped not an Arabian species, 325;
the Nejed camels, 450

Carmathian sect, outbreak of, i. 245;
origin of, ii. 145; their hatred to
Mahometans, 203; present position,
148; a colony of them in the Wahhabee
territory, 82

Christianity, traces of in Arabia, i. 61,
88; among the Bedouins, 119, 150;
traces of on shores of Persian Gulf and
islands, ii. 146; no bar to travel in
Arabia, i. 264

Cisterns. See Water-supply
Coffee, preparation of, i. 51; Mokha,

described, 424; other kinds of, 426

COI

Coinage current in Arabia, ii. 178
Commerce in Arabia, system of, i. 67,
71; discouraged by Mahometanism,
435; fairs in Hasa, ii. 170
Copper, found in 'Oman, ii. 306
Cotton shrub, grown in Kaseem, i. 254

DAH

AHIRAH, province of, ii. 340
Dahna, the. See Desert

Dārim, his history, i. 248

Darweeshes, described, sects, i. 257; as-
sumption of disguise by Europeans,
258-260; fate of an English traveller
in this disguise, 261; not popular
among Wahhabees, i. 263; his mis-
take, ii. 152

Dates, staple food, i. 60; results of over
use, ib.; different kinds of, 58; culti-
vation, 253; Khalās dates, ii. 173
Derb-el-Hajj. See Pilgrims, route of
Derey'eeyah, ruins of, i. 386; fanaticism

of inhabitants, 387; its former great-
ness, ii. 38; siege of, 56
Desert, journeying in, i. 12, 91; the
sirocco, 17; ostriches, 43; the desert
circles of Arabia, 19; general descrip-
tion of, 94; growth of samh plant in,
29; the ghada, 38; wells, 11, 28;
sparrows, 95; crossing an arm of the
Dahna, or Great Desert, 329; the
Dahna, ii. 130; the stone heap, 131;
attempt to sink well in, 135; Bedouins
in, i. 9, 22; in the Great Desert, ii. 133.
(See also Nefood)

Djebel Shomer, first sight of, i. 95; moun-

tains of, 100; its history, 117; cause
of increase, 161; population, revenue,
and contingents, ii. 86

Djebel Toweyk, geology &c. of, i. 336;
highest plateau, 352; pass, 358; second
plateau, 351; termination of, ii. 128
Djelājil, great antiquity of, i. 351; trans-
lated "bells," 352
Djereeschah (wheat), staple food in the
Djowf, i. 73

Djowf, entrance into, i. 46; chief family
in, 47; boundaries, 56; its capital,

57; villages and population, 60;