CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER VL 
Description of El Haram, or Temple of Mecca. — EI Kaaba, or 
the House of God. — El Makam Ibrahim. — El Bir Zemzem.— • 
El Bebesselem. — El Monbar. — The Places for Prayers. — The 
Pillars of Brass and the Lamps. — The Highroads. — The Two 
Cobbas. — The Court. — The Galleries. — The Gates.— Saffa 
and Merua. — Officers of the Temple - - Page 84 
CHAPTER VII. 
Description of Mecca. — Its Geographical Position. — Topo- 
graphy. — Buildings — Public Market Places. — Provisions. — 
Arts and Sciences— Trade. — Misery. — Decline - 107 
CHAPTER VIII. 
Women. — Children. — Language. — Dresses. — Arms. — Greedi- 
ness. — Marriages, Births, and Burials. — Climate. — Physicians. 
— Balm of Mecca.— Incisions in the Face - - 119 
CHAPTER IX. 
Horses. — Asses. — Camels Other Animals. — Carpets. — Chap- 
lets. — Mountains. — Fortresses. — The ScheriPs Houses.— Sul- 
tan Scherif. — Political Situation of Mecca. — Change of Do- 
minion. — Beled El Haram, or Holy Land of Islam. — Mountains 
ofHedjaz - - - - - 130 
CHAPTER X. 
Remarks on the Wehhabis. — Their Religious Principles. — 
Their still more remarkable Military Expeditions. — Arms. — 
Capital City. — Organization. — Considerations - 145 
CHAPTER XI. 
Return of AH Bey to Djedda. — Geographical Position. — Re- 
marks. — Passage to Yenboa - - - 159 
CHAPTER XII. 
Journey towards Medina. — Djideida. — Ali Bey is arrested by 
the Wehhabites.— Inconveniences thence resulting.— He is 
sent with a Caravan of Persons employed in the Temple of 
Medina. — Yenboa - - - - \7l 
