Explorations in Bible lands during the 19th century (1903)
Hilprecht, H. V. (Hermann Vollrat), 1859-1925, Benzinger, I. (Immanuel), 1865-1935, Hommel, Fritz, 1854-1936, Jensen, P. (Peter), 1861-1936, Steindorff, Georg, 1861-1951 · Philadelphia : A. J. Holman · leaf 812
as large as the Europeancountries of France, Belgium, Hol-land, Germany, Switzerland, Italy,Austria-Hungary, Servia, Rouma-nia, and Bulgaria, all combined.Considering the inadequate facilities for transportation,which are the same in Arabia to-day as in ancient times,we can fully understand, in… … Native of S.W. Arabia 694 EXPLORATIONS IN BIBLE LANDS for the journey from South Arabia to the Gulf of Akabah,while they spent forty days on the way troni Hadhramot(or the Frankincense Country) to Gerrha, opposite Saniakor Dilmun — one of the Bahrain Islands. Presupposing a general knowledge of the…