"Jeddah" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... gathered on the shore; and inland lay a mob of pilgrims, the Hajj el-Magharibah, numbering some three thousand North-West Africans; an equally large division had already preceded them to Suez. Letters from Egypt assured us that cholera had broken out at Meccah and Jeddah, killing in both places ninety-eight per diem. Here the pilgrims swore by their Allah that all were, and ever had been, in perfect health; it is every man's business to ignore the truth, to hide the sick, and to bury the dead out of sight. ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton |
