The view from the enormous marble palaces in Riyadh and Jidda is becoming grim.
The great majority of pilgrims for Mecca arrive by sea at Jidda.
One refractory village only, of the Jidda tribe, withholding its impost of a single horse, paid the penalty of its folly.
Long settled in Jidda, the head of the family removed to the Sudan about 1800 and founded the Morgani sect.
If these had run out we should have had to go back to Jidda for coal, or else gone ashore in a boat and trudged up to Suez.
From Yambo to Jidda Bruce slept but little; having been constantly occupied with memoranda which he was desirous to complete.
