139 The Talbiyat, Or Exclaiming, 139 The Prayers On Sighting Meccah, 152 The Four Makams, Or Stations For Prayer, 307, 308 The Prayers At The Ka’Abah, 164, Et Seq., 209 Procrastination Of Orientals, Ii.

21 Preacher, at Meccah, his style of dress, ii.

225 Origin of his wooden sword, 226, n. Presents of dates from Al-Madinah, i. 400 Pressgangs in Cairo, i. 117 Price, Major, referred to, i. 384, n. Prichard, Dr., on the Moors of Africa, i. 187, n. Pride of the Arabs, i. 246 Printing-press, in Egypt, i. 108, n. Prophets, in Moslem law, not supposed to be dead, i. 340, n. Prosody (Ilm al-’Aruz), study of, among the Arabs, i. 107 Prostration-prayers, i. 311, n., 312, n. Proverbs, Arab, i. 149, 277, n. Ptolemy the geographer, i. 225 Puckler-Muskau, Prince, his remarks on the reflected heat of the Desert, i. 144, n. Pulpit, the Prophet’s, at Al-Madinah, i. 311 Pyramids, i. 30 Their covering of yellow silk or satin, ii. 213, n.

RABELAIS, on the discipline of armies, i. 268 Races of Badawin. See Badawin Radhwah, Jabal (one of the “Mountains of Paradise”), i. 122 Rafik, or collector of blackmail, ii. 112 Rafizi (rejector, heretic), origin of the term, ii. 4, n. Rahah, meaning of the term, ii. 256 Rahmah, Bab al-, i. 307, 308, 361 Jabal al- (Mount of Mercy). See Arafat, Mount Rahman of Herat, the calligrapher, i. 104, n. Rahmat al-Kabirah, the attack of cholera so called, i. 384 Railway, in Egypt, i. 113 Rain, want of, at all times, in Egypt, ii. 180, 181 The rainy season expected with pleasure at Al-Madinah, i. 383 Welcomed on the march, ii. 142 [p.464] Raisiyah minaret of Al-Madinah, i. 373 Rajm (lapidation), practice of, in Arabia, ii. 180 Rakb, or dromedary Caravan, ii. 50 Rakham (vulture), ii. 62 Ramazan, i. 74 Effects of, 75 Ceremonies of, 77 The “Fast-breaking,” 79 Ways of spending a Ramazan evening, 79 The Greek quarter at Cairo, 81 The Moslem quarter, 81 Beyond the walls, 84 Ramy, or Lapidation, ceremony of, ii. 203 Ramlah, or sanded place, i. 307 Ras al-Khaymah, i. 248, n. Ras al-Tin, the Headland of Figs (the ancient Pharos), i. 7 Rashid, Bir (well of Rashid), ii. 59 Rauzah, Al-, or the Prophet’s garden, at Al-Madinah, i. 310 Traditions respecting it, 310, n. Description of it, 312 The two-bow prayer at the, 325 Public prayers in, 330, n. Farewell visits to, 56 Rayah (the Banner), the Masjid al-, near Al-Madinah, ii. 48 Rayyan, the hill near Meccah, ii. 147 Raziki grapes, of Al-Madinah, i. 404 Red Sea, view of, on entering Suez, i. 158 Injury done to the trade of, by the farzh or system of rotation at Suez, 170 Shipbuilding on, 177 Kinds of ships used on, 178 Imports and exports at Suez, 179, 180 Description of a ship of, 188 Course of ships on, 195 Observations on the route taken by the Israelites in crossing, 195 Scenery from, 195 Bright blue of the waters of, 196 Phœnician Colony on, 201 Christian colony on the shores of, 202 Jabaliyah, or mountaineers of, 202, n. Morning on, 207 Fierce heat of the mid-day, 208 Harmony and majesty of sunset, 208 Night on, 209 Marsa Damghah, 213 Wijh harbour, 214 The town of Wijh, 215 Coral reefs of the Red Sea, 218 The Ichthyophagi and the Badawin of the coasts of, 218 Arab legends respecting the phosphoric light in, 219 Al-Kulzum the Arabic name for the, 250, n. The great heats near, in Arabia, prejudicial to animal generation, 266 The shores of, when first peopled, according to Moslem accounts, 343, n. Rekem (Numbers, xxxi.

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