 | John Lewis Burckhardt - 1831 - 412 páginas
...years ago, near Wady Feirau in the Desert of Sinai, where a mountain is shown from which two young girls precipitated themselves, having the ringlets...pieces, because on that evening they were to be married, by an arrangement of their friends, to men whom they disliked. The summit from which they threw themselves... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Josias Leslie Porter - 1858 - 370 páginas
...young girls precipitated themselves, having the ringlets of their hair twisted together. They thus dashed themselves to pieces, because on that evening they were to be married, by an arrangement of their friends, to men whom they disliked. The peak is still called Hajr elBenát,... | |
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Feirau in the Desert of Sinai, where a mountain is shown from which two young girls precipitated themselves, having the ringlets of their hair twisted together ; thus they dashed themselves to pieces, because on that evening they were to be married, by... 