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Title: With the pilgrims to Mecca: The great pilgrimage of A.H. 1319; A.D. 1902

Author: Hadji Khan

Wilfrid Sparroy

Author of introduction, etc.: Ármin Vámbéry

Release date: May 19, 2022 [eBook #68124]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: John Lane, 1905

Credits: Turgut Dincer, Thomas Frost and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WITH THE PILGRIMS TO MECCA: THE GREAT PILGRIMAGE OF A.H. 1319; A.D. 1902 ***

THE HAREM, SHOWING THE KA’BAH, AND THE OTHER SANCTUARIES WITHIN THE HAREM.

(From an old Indian Illustration.)

WITH THE PILGRIMS TO MECCA

THE GREAT PILGRIMAGE
OF A.H. 1319; A.D. 1902
BY HADJI KHAN, M.R.A.S.
(Special Correspondent of the “Morning Post”)
AND WILFRID SPARROY
(Author of “Persian Children of the Royal Family”)
WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY PROFESSOR A. VAMBÉRY

LONDON AND NEW YORK
JOHN LANE, MDCCCCV

PRINTED BY W. H. WHITE AND SON
THE ABBEY PRESS, EDINBURGH

TO

THE HONOURABLE OLIVER A. BORTHWICK

... Oh, never star
Was lost here but it rose afar!
Look East, where whole new thousands are!

The Authors take this opportunity of renewing their acknowledgments of all they owe to the Editor of The Morning Post, to whose friendly interest and encouragement the success of the serial publication, under the title of the “Great Pilgrimage,” was in a considerable measure due. In tendering to him their hearty thanks, they feel it would be scarcely fair to themselves were they to allow the reader to take this, the present fruit of their respective labours, to be a mere republication. It is something far more than that, one-fifth of the book, and that the most interesting part of all, being absolutely new; while the whole of the remainder has been not only carefully revised, but also recast, and, to some extent, rewritten. But the reader owes the new material to Mr. Dunn’s kindness in relinquishing his right to it in order that it might appear for the first time in the pages of “With the Pilgrims to Mecca.”

28th April 1904.

My own East!
How nearer God we were! He glows above
With scarce an intervention, presses close
And palpitatingly, His soul o’er ours;
We feel Him, nor by painful reason know!
The everlasting minute of creation
Is felt there.

Robert Browning.