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

DURING l'J'H CENTURY: ARABIA 721
In the year 1886 there appeared in Batavia the valuable
work of the Dutch Arabist Van den Berg, Le Hadhramout,
1 in which
accurate data,
procured from
native
travellers
to Dutch East
India,
wrought into
interesting
narrative
description
are
an
containing
o f
this portion of
Arabia — hitherto
so little
known, despite
the work of
Wrede, Maltzan,
Hirsch, and
Bent.
Merely for the
purpose ofstudying
botany the Frenchman A. Defters made an excursion 2
to Yemen in 1887. Other botanical excursions from Aden
to the north of the Turkish frontier, and eastward to
Dathina, were made subsequently by the same explorer, who
reported his results in
the Revue d'Egypte.
Eduard Glaser's third expedition, October, 1887, to September,
1888, was still
richer in epigraphical results than his
first two — richer in fact than all former ones put together,
D. A. Miiller in the Wiener Zeitschrift fur Kunde des Morgetilandes, and
Hommel [facsimiles of the larger of these inscriptions] in his Sudarabische
Chrestomathie.
1
Of 292 pages, large octavo, with map and illustrations.
2
Journal d' une excursion botanique, 246 pp.,
53
Village of Aredoah, South of Khoraiba
Paris, 1889.