Excerpt from Wanderings in Arabia, Vol. 2 of 2: Being an Abridgment of "Travels in Arabia Deserta" Some of the villagers Came up to me immediately to enquire for medicines they were full of tedious words and all was to beg of me and buy none. I left them sitting and went out to see the place, for this was Kheybar. Our host sent his son to guide me; the boy led down by a lane and called me to enter a doorway and see a spring. I went in - it was a mesjid! And I withdrew hastily. The father (who had instructed the child beforehand), hearing from him when we came again that I had left the place without praying, went down and shut his street door. He returned and took his pistol from the wall, Saying, Let us go out together and he would show me round the town.' When we were in the street, he led me by an orchard path, out of the place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.