Druses, 342
Dulcigno, 82
dyestuffs, 79
earthquake, 348
eclipse, 198
Edessa, 339f.
Egypt, 90ff.
Elim, Vale of, 198
equipment, 152f.; Niebuhr’s, at Mosul, 336
Erbil, 331
Estague, 68
Euphrates, 326, 329, 330
Eve’s grave, 203
Fabricius, I. C., 278
Failaka, 310
Falck, Jonas Peter, 39ff., 43, 139
Faran oasis, 176, 177, 181
Farhan, Emir, 211, 215, 224, 226
Feludsje, 310
Finisterre, Cape, 66
fire, shipboard, 201
Fisker, Commander, 55, 58ff., 72, 74, 75, 78, 198
Flagellum, 66
Florence, 46
Florent, 84f., 132f.
fluorescence, of sea-water, 65, 88f.
Focsani, 350f.
Forsskål, Peter: selection for expedition and early career, 14, 19, 24ff, 55; portrait, 30f.; attitude to Kramer, 39ff., 56; and Niebuhr, 36; at Marseille, 68; and von Haven, 73, 74, 100f., 126, 128, 144, 255; Flora Melitensis, 76; at Constantinople, 79; letter to Bernstorff from Rhodes, 84ff., 131; at Alexandria, 93ff.; letters to von Gähler, 100f., 204; collects flowers in Egypt, 101ff.; linguistic gifts, 104f.; attacks by robbers, 105, 111f.; Gähler on, 135, 138; and Djebel el-Mokateb, 160f.; at Suez, 163ff., 184, 196; at Tor, 198; foretells eclipse, 198f.; at Djidda, 204, 210f.; at Loheia, 217ff; at Beit el-Fakih, 231; at Taiz, 235ff.; finds balsam tree, 236f.; at Mocha, 242ff., 257; death, 255, 264f., 271; last journey, 265ff.; will, 272; burial, 272f.; Niebuhr on, 273; estimate of, 273f.; fate of collection, 275ff.; herbarium, 276, 279; manuscripts, 277, 280f.; publication of work, 359f.; diary, 59, 62, 65, 93, 175, 280f. et passim; other references, 49, 51, 64, 67, 72, 82, 99, 128, 135, 158, 159, 189, 193, 194, 195, 209, 215, 258, 300, et passim
Forsskalea, 282-4
fossils, and pyramids, 117
Franciscans, 344
Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, 19, 55
Frederick V, King of Denmark, 17, 19, 354; statue of, 356
Gähler, von, 78, 82, 96, 98, 109, 119, 123, 128, 275, 328, 342, 348 et passim; letter to expedition at Cairo, 100, 125; report to Bernstorff, 131ff.; on members of expedition, 135f.; letter to von Haven, 140ff.; letter to Bernstorff, 187
Galanthus nivalis, 63
Gannemie, 226
Gaza, 113
gazelles, 163
Ghalefca, 229
Ghobeibe, 164
Gibraltar, Straits of, 67
Gizeh, 111, 116, 122
Gloyer, 364
Gouen, Antoine, 68
Greenland (ship), 52f., 55, 56, 58ff., 74, 78; equipment, 63
Grotefend, 322
gumbo fruit, 104
Hadie, 231
Hadjsir, 295
Halesi, 294
Hälsingborg, 58
Hamburg, 48
Hamel, von, 49
Hanover, 352
Haran, 340
Harris, 228
Hassan, Sheik, 177, 179
Hasselquist, 76
hats, Egyptian, 121
Haven, Friedrich Christian von: selection for expedition, 14, 17f., 21ff., 45ff., 54; journey to Marseille, 62f., 70ff.; and Forsskål, 72ff., 80f., 126; purchase of arsenic, see arsenic; letter to von Gähler, 98f.; at Cairo, 119ff.; and Djebel el-Mokateb, 123, 159ff., 166ff.; Gähler on, 135; Gähler’s letter to, 140ff.; death, 189, 250f.; reports to Bernstorff, 217, 222; gift of stallion to, 224; malaria, 239f.; burial, 252; Niebuhr’s summing-up, 252f.; estimate of, 254f.; diary, 156, 166ff., 188, et passim; minor references, 16, 194, 204, 229, 300, et passim.
Hell, M., 356
Helsingör, 58f., 61, 62f., 70
Hetland, 64
hieroglyphics, 117f., 172, 175, 184f.
Hilla, 330
Himyarites, 213
Hindus, Niebuhr on, 306f.
Hoddafa, 285
Hodeida, 211, 227, 229
Horn, 348
Hornemann, 279
hospitality, Arab, 215
Iceland, 64f.
India, 256, 302ff.
Indian Ocean, 302, 310
inscriptions, 123, 138, 169, 172ff., 183, 342; Cufic, 184; cuneiform, 320; Himyaritic, 285; see also Djebel el-Mokateb
Ireland, 66
Isfahan, 315
Iskanderun, 342, 343
Israel, crossing of Red Sea by, 164, 166
Jaffa, 343, 344
Jan van Gent, 64
Jerim, 267ff., 271, 284, 290, 294, 300
Jerusalem, 343ff.
Jidda, see Djidda
Jussieu, A. de, 276, 279
Justinian, 79
Kaas, Sophie, 38
Kahme, 229, 234
Kamenetz Podolsk, 351
Kampfer, Engelbert, 315, 322
Karbala, 330
Kästner, A. G., 33, 146
Kattegat, 59, 70
kelleks, 333ff., 335
Kharg, 325f.
Khotin, 351
kishr, 228
Klopstock, F. G., 20, 355
Konia, 347
Kotumbel, 211
Kramer, Christian Carl; early career and selection for expedition, 14, 38ff., 54; Gähler on, 136; and Djebel el-Mokateb, 160; lost watch, 207, 212; at Loheia, 216f., 221f.; death, 303f.; other references, 56, 67, 73, 79, 82, 96, 99, 120, 139, 153, 204, 229, 231, 249, 253, 256, 267, 269, 277, 284f., 292, 297
Kramer, Johan Christopher, 38
Kratzenstein, C. G., 38, 41, 139, 277, 355
Kronborg, 58
Kudmie, 219
Kullen, 59
Kurds, 318, 337f.
Kurtub, 238
Kusma, 231
Kuwait, 310
Laesö, 59
Larnaca, 342f.
Latakia, 346
Lauad, 266
Lawrence, T. E., 328
Leghat tribe, 173
Lemberg, 351
Lemlum, 330
Lindberg, 283
Linné (Linnaeus), Carl von, 20, 25, 28, 29, 31, 41ff., 68, 79, 93, 102, 105, 139, 237, 255, 276, 277ff.; and balsam tree, 237f.; and Forsskalea, 282f.
Löfling, 31
log-glass, 63f.
Loheia, 207, 211, 213ff., 241, 243, 300
London, 305, 307
louse, 215f.
Lublin, 351
Lyons, 71
Machfur, 229
Madie, Lake, 97
malaria, 240, 264, 292, 361
Malta, 75f.
Maraua, 226
Mardin, 336, 339, 341
Marib, 213
Marmora, Sea of, 78, 79
Marseille, 63, 68, 69, 71, 72
Martin, John, 297f., 302f.
massage, Arabian, 333
Masseyk, Herr von, 341, 342, 346
Matara, 102, 105, 154
mausale, 228
Mausjid, 296
Mayer, C., 34, 35, 146, 352, 356
Mazdaism, 307
measurement of distances, 168, 227
Mecca, 196
Meldorf, 360ff.
Mencil, 266, 267f.
Merdast, 316, 318, 319, 324
Meshed Ali, 330f.
Michaelis, David, 15ff., 34, 40, 47, 116, 122, 188, 238, 278, 298, 299, 308f., 327, 352
Miller, P., 276, 279
Minaeans, 212f.
Mocha, 49, 206, 211, 212, 213ff., 241ff., 256, 257, 275, 284, 294, 296f., 302; map, 251
Mofhak, 294
Mokaja, 231
mokkaias, 228
molluscs, 67
Moltke, Count A. G., 19, 23, 43, 62, 70, 102, 119, 137, 222, 354; Baurenfeind’s portrait of, 38
monsoon, 302f., 305
Montpellier, 68
Moor, 219
Mormordica balsamina, 93
Mosbeha, 163
Moses, 123, 166, 167, 177, 181
Mosul, 335
Mudania, 348
Müller, Otto F., 278
Münter, Bishop, 322
Musa, 258
Muscat, 206, 308, 309
music, 221
musical instruments, 129
Mustapha Pasha, 120
Naaman, 219
Nabataeans, 213
Napoleon, 116
Nazzab, 183
Nereids, 66, 88
Niebuhr, B. G., 34, 365f.
Niebuhr, Carsten: early career and selection for expedition, 14, 18, 32ff., 48; as treasurer, 50, 52; position in relation to party, 51ff.; and Greenland’s equipment, 63f.; and von Haven, 73, 87, 101, 126ff., 145; dysentery, 76ff.; on proselytising, 88; at Cairo, 106ff.; map of Delta, 108f.; at pyramids, 114ff.; copies hieroglyphics, 116ff.; Gähler on, 136; Gähler’s letter to, 142f.; letter to Gähler, 145ff.; and Forsskål, 145; on dromedaries, 156; and Djebel el-Mokateb, 161ff.; climbs Mount Sinai, 183; chart of Red Sea, 196f.; at Djidda, 203f.; at Loheia, 217; map of Yemen, 217, 227f.; at Beit el-Fakih, 226ff.; at Taiz, 235ff., 260ff.; malaria, 239f., 255, 266ff.; at Mocha, 242ff.; on von Haven’s death, 250f.; on Forsskål, 273; and Forsskalea, 283f.; meets Imam of Yemen, 288f.; journey to India, 302ff.; at Bombay, 306f.; journey home, 308ff.; at Persepolis, 315ff.; letter to Gähler, 319f; adopts Arab way of life, 328ff.; at Aleppo, 341f.; at Jerusalem, 344; crosses Asia Minor, 346ff.; crosses Europe, 348ff.; return to Copenhagen, 353; last years, 354ff.; publications, 356ff.; marriage, 359; moves to Meldorf, 360ff.; elected to French Academy, 362; blindness, 363; death, 365; son’s estimate, 365f.; diary, 61f., 65, 66, 74, 77, 83, 87, 89, 90, 95, 106f., 110, 112f., 148, 167ff., 198f., 201, 215f., 220, 221, 230, 238f., 245ff., 256, 263, 297, 304f., 312ff., 359, 360, et passim; other references, 56, 58f., 67, 75, 83, 99, 156, 158, 193, 195, 226, 300f., et passim; see also astrolabe
Nineveh, 335
Norden, F. L., 94, 108
Norway, 360
Nubia, 94
Nyborg, 353
Odibaschi, Pasha, 120
Oeder, G. C. von, 20, 37, 276, 279
Omar Kháyyam, 325
Opobalsamum, 94
Oude, 238
palanquin, 305, 306
palm trees, 93
Palsgrave, 228
Paremble, Nicolo, 120
Paris, 71
Parsees, 307
Pasha, Captain, 83, 87
Pastor roseus, 77
Paul, St., shipwreck of, 76
Peluche, 310
Pennisetum typhoideum, 219
Persepolis, 312, 315ff.
Persian Gulf, 309f., 326
Peter III of Russia, 55
Pharaoh’s Bath, 169
place-names, 168f.
plague, 90, 350, 351
Plessen, Chamberlain von, 38
Pocock, E., 122, 342, 343
Preisler, J., 37
prostitutes, 197
pyramids, 111, 114ff.
Rashid, 97
Rask, Rasmus K., 324
Rebecca, 340
Red Sea, 158, 160, 163, 197, 213
relics, 76
Rhamnus spinosa, 76
Rhizopods, 66
Rhodes, 83ff., 90
Romchun, 313
Rome, 45f., 70
rose-starling, 77
Rosetta, 97, 108; Stone, 118
Roskilde, 358
Rottböll, 279
Rousseau, J.-J., 71
Sabaeans, 213
Sabr, Mount, 261f.
Sacy, A. I. S. de, 363
St. Anthony, Cape, 298
St. Vincent, Cape, 66
sakiya, 107
Salech, Ismael, 207, 212, 215, 243ff., 275
Saly, 356
Samfur, 294, 295
Samos, 83
Sana, 204, 213, 241, 254, 256ff., 286ff., 295, 300
Saunders, Admiral, 74
Sauvage, François de, 68, 276, 279
Sawalha, 147, 158, 161, 162
Schück, Henrik, 280f., 283
Schumacher, 87
Scott, 297
sea-owls, 64
seaweeds, 59
seeds, Forsskål’s collection, 276
Sehan, River, 295
Seif, Ambar, 226
Sennar, 103
Seven Years’ War, 55
Sheba, Queen of, 213
Shetland Islands, 64
shipbuilding, 165
Shiraz, 312, 314, 321, 324
Sicily, 76
Sidon, 346
Sinai, 124, 137f., 176, 183; Archbishop of, 120, 123, 178, 179; St. Catherine’s Monastery, 166, 176, 177, 178ff., 182f., 253
Sirwah, 213
Sjerdsje, 296
Sjagerrak, 61, 63, 71, 81, 198
Skagen, 59
Skuas, Great, 64
slave girls, 82f., 87ff.
Smyrna, 74, 77
snake poison, 246
snakes’ eyes, 76
snowdrop, winter, 63
Söderberg, 18
Sohag, 104
Soleiman, Sheik, 326
Solomon, King, 213
Soúrak, 261
South Africa, 29, 40, 68, 79
stallion, gift of, 224, 226
Stanislaus Poniatowski, King, 351
stars, brightness, in East, 309
Stavanger, 64
Ström, 16, 17
Struensee, J. F., 278, 358
Suez, 147, 158, 159ff.; inward and outward trade, 165
Summara, Mount, 266, 267f.
Surat, 305
Taaes, see Taiz
Taiz, 234, 257ff., 271, 294
Taja, Mount, 157
tarrád, 206f.
Tehama, 213ff., 226, 257
Temler, 119, 122, 124, 125, 277
Tenedos, 78, 83
Tessin, Karl Gustav, 72f.
thief, detection of, 203
Tigris, river, 332, 339
Tor, 165, 198
towers of silence, 307
Trankebar, 15, 49, 275, 289, 303
transmigration of souls, 219
Turdus seleucus, 77
Turkey, 348
Turks, 78
Udden, 236
Urfa, 339
Venus, 75
Voltaire, 71
Wahl, Martin, 279
Waldau, 352
Wargentin, P. W., 238
Warsaw, 351
water-wheel, see sakiya
Wielandt, Jochum, 21
Wielandt, Marie, 21
women, Niebuhr’s observations, 201f.
Xerxes, 324
Yemen, 56f., 211, 212f.; Imam of, 288ff.; map of, 227, 232f., 291; the name, 300; see also Arabia Felix
Yezidis, 334
Zab, Great and Little, 332, 333, 335
Zach, F. X., 363
Zebid, 229, 295
Zoëga, 278
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