. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. nd Medina in 1804, and dictatedto the Mahometan world the terms on which alone theycould obtain access to the sacred places. In 1811 the Porteentrusted Mehemet Ali, the viceroy of Egypt, with the subjugation of Mebemet Ali. THE ARABS. 501 tlie Walihabees, wliicli lie accomplisliecl after much difficulty and withgreat cruelty. In 1812 Medina was taken, in 1813 Mecca was occupi
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. nd Medina in 1804, and dictatedto the Mahometan world the terms on which alone theycould obtain access to the sacred places. In 1811 the Porteentrusted Mehemet Ali, the viceroy of Egypt, with the subjugation of Mebemet Ali. THE ARABS. 501 tlie Walihabees, wliicli lie accomplisliecl after much difficulty and withgreat cruelty. In 1812 Medina was taken, in 1813 Mecca was occupied,and in 1818 Arabia lay at the mercy of the conquerors. But a reactionensued against the oppressive treatment of the Turks, and the Wali-habees have recovered theu rule over a great part of Arabia, the excep-tions being the following; the eastern kingdom of Oman, presentseated at Muscat, and the Hejaz (a large part of the Red Sea states,coast, Yemen (partially), and El-hasa, on the Persian Gulf, underTurkish rule. The Wahhabee kingdom itself is now split up, in con-sequence of the rise of the kingdom of Shammar, in the north and westof the Nejd. The Arabs of the present day are best divided into the Bedouins, or. TYPES OF AUAB WOMEX. The Bedouins, dwellers in the open land, and the dwellers in towns and settledlocalities. The Bedouins live in tents in the vast extent between the coast districts and the central plateau,and are essentially shepherds and herdsmen, who migrate from spot tospot according to the abundance of grass and water for their the disputes about the possession of wells, narrated in the Bible,still continue, leading to plunder in some cases, to want in others. Farremoved from crowded haunts of men and control of regular authority,many peculiarities of behaviour and of government characterise theBedouins. In every clan, the sheikh, or elder, is paramount, and to him alldisputes are referred. This position is not given for descent, age, o
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