id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 9457 Burckhardt, John Lewis Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred .txt text/plain 182664 7261 70 since the positions of Djidda, Mekka, Medina, Tayf, and Yembo, the chief country between Tayf, Mekka, Medina, Yembo, and Djidda. town, called Bab Mekka and Bab el Medina, upon all provisions coming Mohammed Ali remained at Mekka and at Djidda, he received a regular present, assembled, on their return to Mekka, at the holy place called heard during prayers in the great mosque at Mekka, which at other times the time of Sultan Achmed, the son of Sultan Mohammed, (who died in A.H. 1027,) Egypt sent yearly to Mekka two hundred and ninety-five purses, caravan pays to Bedouins and Arabs, on its road to Mekka. Sherifs in Mekka and Djidda, great merchants, olemas, and all the chief Tayf and Medina being now halfruined, the merchants of Mekka resort to Djidda, as their only place of small parties of pilgrims in their route from Medina or Djidda to Mekka, poor people, in starting from Mekka for Medina with the great caravan, ./cache/9457.txt ./txt/9457.txt