Hakl

El – Hakl (pronounced “Hagul”), the [Greek] of Ptolemy: it was seen from the sea, and notes were taken of its ruins and furnaces.

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North of it a palm grove, lining the mouth of a broad Wady which snakes high up among the sands and stones, denotes the Hajj-station, El – Hakl (Hagul), backed by tall arenaceous buttresses.

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The whole is, however, an invention; our Sayyid had ridden down the valley during his journey to El – Hakl.

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The Mukhbir resumed her way southwards in glorious weather, a fresh breath blowing from the north; and fleecy clouds variegating the sky, which was almost as blue as the waves After six miles and a half from El – Hakl and nearly twenty from El – Akabah, she ran to the west of El – Humayzah Island, the “Omasír” of Wellsted (ii. 149), between which and the mainland is a well sheltered berth.

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El-Hakl (pronounced "Hagul"), the < Greek > of Ptolemy: it was seen from the sea, and notes were taken of its ruins and furnaces.

The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855

Another had seen a Kidr Dahab ( "golden pot"), in the 'Aligán section of the Wady el-Hakl (Hagul) where it leaves the Hismá; and a matchlock-man had brought down with his bullet a bit of precious metal from the upper part.

The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855

In the German naturalist's time, the now desolate island was occupied by die Emradi, a tribe which he suspected to be Jewish, and of which he told the queerest tales: I presume they are the 'Imrám-Huwaytát of El-Hakl and the

The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855

Shaykh 'Brahím had also heard of this marvel; but he called it the Haráb' Antar ( "Ruin of 'Antar"), and he placed it in the Wady el-Hakl, about an hour's ride south of the Wady 'Afál.

The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855

This man was found near El-Hakl (Hagul), two long marches ahead: he came in readily enough, holding in hand my kerchief as a pledge of protection, and accompanied by three petty chiefs, Musallam,

The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855

After two hours and forty five minutes we passed into the fine, open, treacherous Bay of "Hagul" (El-Hakl), distant thirteen knots from El-'Akabah Fort, to which it is the nearest caravan-station.

The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855