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was turned back by the Wahabis. He returned to Europe via Egypt, 
Syria and Turkey and reported himself in Paris in 1813. A year 
later a narrative of travels, translated from his Spanish manuscript 
was published. It contains notes on the geology, bdtany, and meteoro- 
logy of the Hijas. He set out once more for Mecca via Damascus 
in 1818, but died on the road, two marches from Mzerib, of dysentery. 
AM ISey, — Travels. Paris, 1814 ; London, 1816. 
See also : €, FInatl. — Travels. Edited by W. J. Bankes. 
London, 1830. 
di AH Eey, — Barcdorili, 1888. 
180?^. — Biifckluardt, Jotnion Ludwig (1784-1817), called himself Ibrahim 
ibn Abd“AIlah. — Born at Lausanne in Switzerland he was educated 
at Neiichatel, Leipzig and Gottingen. In 1806 he came to London 
and his services were accepted by Sir Joseph Banks, the leading spirit 
of the African Association, to explore the interior of Africa. In 1809 
he embarked for Malta, having previously qualified himself by the 
study of Arabic and also by inuring himself to hunger, thirst, and 
exposure. ©After a stay of two years at Aleppo he went to Cairo, 
Nubia and thence to Mecca in 1814, to perform the pilgrimage. In 
1815 he returned to Cairo, and in the following year fie ascended 
Mount Sinai. Returned to Cairo he died of dysentery in 1817, and 
was buried, as a. holy pilgrim, in the Muslim cemetery. There is much 
for students of the natural sciences in his books and his botanical 
notes are numerous. 
Esirckiiardt, J, L. — Travels in Syria and the Holy Land. London, 
1822. 
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L. — Travels in Arabia. 2 vols. LoMon, 1830. 
BiirekliiifdL I. L.-~ Notes on the Bedouines and Wahabys. 4°. 
2 vols. London, 1830 (in German, Weimar, 1831). 
Eurcklmrdt, J. L. — The same. 8°. London, 1831. 
Eisrekiiiiirdt, J. L. — Voyages en Arabie, contenan^ la description 
des parties du Hedjaz, regardees cofiime sacrees par les Musulmans, 
suivis de notes sur les Bedouins et d’un essai sur I’histoire des 
^ Wahabitesl Trad, par J. Eyries. 3 vols. 1835. 
1809 . — Salt, Henry (1780-1827).— Traveller and collector of antiquities. 
As secretly and draughtsman to Viscount Valentia (1802) he visited 
India, Ceylon and (in 1805) Abyssinia. During his second journey' to 
Abyssinia he went to Aden (1809) which was in possession of Ahmed, 
the chief of the Azaibees. Salt seems to have collected plants, but, 
judging from his specimens in the British Museum, without append- 
ing any notes or records of station to his specimens. His plants 
