PART II
The March Through Central and Eastern Midian.

Chapter IX. Work in and Around El Muwaylah
Chapter X. Through East Midian to the Hisma





PART I.
The March Through Madyan Proper
(North Midian).





Chapter I.
Preliminary--from Trieste to Midian.



Throughout the summer of 1877 I was haunted by memories of
mysterious Midian. The Golden Region appeared to me in the glow
of primaeval prosperity described by the Egyptian hieroglyphs; as
rich in agriculture and in fertility, according to the old
Hellenic travellers, as in its Centres of civilization, and in
the precious metals catalogued by the Sacred Books of the