Explorations in Bible lands during the 19th century - H. V. Hilprecht

DURING 191'n CENTURY: ARABIA 707
travel as a Jerusalemitic Jew ; although from San'a following
routes entirely different from those followed
by Saphir.
D. H. Miiller in his above-mentioned treatise gave German
translations of several extracts from Saphir's memoir, which
is
generally inaccessible to European and American readers.
The memorable
second tour across
the Arabian peninsula
was made
in 1862-3 by the
Englishman Wm,
Gifford Palgrave, 1
a Jesuit father
who t r a v e 1 le d
from the Dead
Sea to Qatif,
whence he went
by sea to 'Oman.
Zehme has well
said in his summary
of these
achi evemen t s :
while Wallin " revealed
to us the
great northwest
territory
between
the Sinaitic penins
u 1 a, the Euphrates,
Jebel Shammar (Hayil), and Medina, thus conducting
us to the very portals of Nejd proper (the highlands
of Central Arabia), Palgrave for the first time opened
these portals, traversed the whole of Central Arabia, —
practically unknown before his day, — reaching again the
1
See his book, " A Narrative of a Year's Journey through Central and
Eastern Arabia," 2 vols., London, 1862-63.
Khoraiba, South of Azab