Title:  Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah

Author:  Sir Richard Francis Burton

Release Date:  November, 2003 [Etext #4657] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on February 23, 2002]

Edition:  10

Language:  English

Character set encoding:  ASCII

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PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF A PILGRIMAGE TO AL-MADINAH & MECCAH

BY

Captain sir Richard F. Burton,

K.C.M.G., F.R.G.S., &c., &c., &c.

Edited by his wife, Isabel Burton.

“Our notions of Mecca must be drawn from the Arabians; as no unbeliever is permitted to enter the city, our travellers are silent."-Gibbon, chap. 50.

Memorial edition.

IN TWO VOLUMES

Volume I.

[p.xii] [Arabic text]

Dark and the Desert and Destriers me ken,
And the Glaive and the Joust, and Paper and Pen.

Al-Mutanabbi

[p.xv]

PREFACE TO THE MEMORIAL EDITION.

After my beloved husband had passed away from amongst us, after the funeral had taken place, and I had settled in England, I began to think in what way I could render him the most honour.  A material Monument to his memory has already been erected by his countrymen in the shape of a handsome contribution to the beautiful Mausoleum-tent in stone and marble to contain his remains; but I also hoped to erect a less material, but more imperishable, Monument to his name, by making this unique hero better known