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SOUTHERN ARABIA

J. Theordore Bent, well established as a travel writer and archaeologist, made seven journeys in all around the southern part of Arabia including Oman and Dhofar. Accompanied always by his wife, the author devoted the last years of his life to observation and travel in these lands. This account of the couples travels, first published in 1899, two years after Bents death, is a fascinating picture of the lands, peoples and history of Southern Arabia.

J. Theodore Bent was a successful travel writer and explorer. His other works include The Sacred City of the Ethiopians and Ruined Cities of Mashonaland-Zimbabwe .

SOUTHERN ARABIA

J. Theodore Bent and Mabel Bent

First published in 2004 by
Kegan Paul International

This edition first published in 201 1 by
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Kegan Paul, 2004

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ISBN 10: 0-7103-0953-8 (hbk)

ISBN 13: 978-0-7103-0953-2 (hbk)

Publisher's Note

The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original copies may be apparent. The publisher has made every effort to contact original copyright holders and would welcome correspondence from those they have been unable to trace.

CONTENTS

Map 1 London: Smith Elder & Co.

PREFACE

IF my fellow-traveller had lived, he intended to have put together in book form such information as we had gathered about Southern Arabia. Now, as he died four days after our return from our last journey there, I have had to undertake the task myself. It has been very sad to me, but I have been helped by knowing that, however imperfect this book may be, what is written here will surely be a help to those who, by following in our footsteps, will be able to get beyond them, and to whom I so heartily wish success and a Happy Home-coming, the best wish a traveller may have. It is for their information that I have included so many things about the price of camels, the payment of soldiers and so forth, and yet even casual readers may care to know these details of explorers daily lives.

Much that is set down here has been published before, but a good deal is new.

My husband had written several articles in the Nineteenth Century , and by the kindness of the editor I have been able to make use of these; also I have incorporated the lectures he had given before the Royal Geographical Society and the British Association. The rest is from his note-books and from the Chronicles that I always wrote during our journeys.

I thought at first of trying to keep our several writings apart; but, to avoid confusion of inverted commas, I decided, acting on advice, just to put the whole thing into as consecutive a form as possible, only saying that the least part of the writing is mine.

The bibliography is far from complete, as I can name only a few of the many books that my husband consulted on all the districts round those which we were going to penetrate.

As to the spelling of the Arabic, it must be remembered that it is a very widely spread language, and there are naturally many different forms of the same word e.g. ibn, ben, bin and such very various ways of pronouncing the name of the Moslem prophet, that I have heard it pronounced Memet, Mamad and Mad.

I must give hearty thanks in both our names to all who helped us on in these journeys, and especially to Mr. HEADLAM , who has given me much assistance by going through the proofs of this book. Mr. W. C. IEVINE has kindly provided the column of literary Arabic for the vocabulary.

MABEL VIRGINIA ANNA BENT.

13 Great Cumberland Plage, W :
October 13, 1899.

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BIBILIOGRAPHY

All Ibn al Husain, El Masudi, Abu al Hasan, Diodoros, Marco Polo, Sir John Maundeville, Pliny, the Periplus Strabo, Ebn Said, Ptolemy, and others; but, as many of these names have been copied by me from rough notes of my husbands, I cannot be certain about the editions. I hope the imperfections of this bibliography will be excused.

Abulfida Ismael ibn Ali Imad ed din, Prince or King of Hatnar. Geo graphic dAboulftda , traduite de lArabe et accompagne de notes et dlaireissements par M. Reinaud, par M. S. Guyard. Paris, 184883.

Baros, Joo de. Dos feitos que os Portugueses fizer am . 177880.

Binning, Robert. A Journal of Two Years Travel in Persia, Ceylon, dc , 1857.

Bunbury, Sir E. H. Ancient Geography among the Greeks and Romans , 1879.

Cartas de Alfonzo de Albuquerque. Commentaries of Albuquerque , Hakluyt Society, translated by W. de G. Birch. 1875.

Carter, Dr. Paper in the Journal of the Asiatic Society . Bombay branch.

Chabas, Joseph. Les Inscriptions des Mines dor . 1862.

Correa, Gaspar. Three Voyages of Vasco da Gama . Hakluyt Society, 1869.

Fernan Lopes de la Castanbeda. Historia do descubrimento e conquista da India pe los Portugueses . Lisbon, 1833.

Glaser, Eduard. Shizze der Geschichte der Geographie Sild-Arabiens . Berlin, 1890.

Goeje, J. de. Bibliotheca geographicorum Arabicorum . 187085. Memoires d-histoire et de geographie orientates . 2nd edition, 1886. Helps to the Study of the Bible .

Hommel, Fritz. Siid-Arabische Chrestoviathie und Minceo-Sabaischen Grammatih . Miinchen, 1893. India Directory, Part I . 1874.

Miles, Colonel. Beport of the Administration of the Persian Gulf Residency , 188488. Journey through Oman and Dhahrireh . Blue Book, cexx.

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