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Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846Richardson, James

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Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846

Name: Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
Author: Richardson, James

Richardson, James

Sahara -- Description and travel

end of the world." My taleb assures me, upon his _parole d'honneur_,
that _The Dajal_ will come in forty years from the present time, or
in the year 1885! Khoristan, the country where he is now bound in chains,
is, besides, the country of Gog and Magog (‮جوج و مجوج‬).
One of these gentlemen is very small, indeed a dwarf, about the size
of General Tom Thumb, perhaps one and a half inches shorter; and the
other is tall enough to reach the moon when it is high over your
head. It is strange the Mussulmans of Ghadames make also the Turks
(_Truk_, as they call them,) to come from the country of Gog and
Magog. See the following table of the genealogy of all the people of
the earth, especially the Turks, the Touaricks, and the Russians:--

                                 Noah.
                                   |
            +----------------------+----------------+
            |                                       |
          Shem.                   Ham.           Japheth.
            |                      |                |
+------------------------+     +--------+     +------------+
|                        |     |        |     |            |
Christians.  Arabs.  Jews.      Negroes.      Gog and Magog.
                                               |         |
                                             +----+  +---------+
                                             |    |  |         |
                                             Turks.   Touaricks.
                                               |
                                           +--------+
                                           |        |
                                            Russians.

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Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846Richardson, James

History

Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846

Richardson, James

Sahara -- Description and travel

end of the world." My taleb assures me, upon his _parole d'honneur_,
that _The Dajal_ will come in forty years from the present time, or
in the year 1885! Khoristan, the country where he is now bound in chains,
is, besides, the country of Gog and Magog (‮جوج و مجوج‬).
One of these gentlemen is very small, indeed a dwarf, about the size
of General Tom Thumb, perhaps one and a half inches shorter; and the
other is tall enough to reach the moon when it is high over your
head. It is strange the Mussulmans of Ghadames make also the Turks
(_Truk_, as they call them,) to come from the country of Gog and
Magog. See the following table of the genealogy of all the people of
the earth, especially the Turks, the Touaricks, and the Russians:--

                                 Noah.
                                   |
            +----------------------+----------------+
            |                                       |
          Shem.                   Ham.           Japheth.
            |                      |                |
+------------------------+     +--------+     +------------+
|                        |     |        |     |            |
Christians.  Arabs.  Jews.      Negroes.      Gog and Magog.
                                               |         |
                                             +----+  +---------+
                                             |    |  |         |
                                             Turks.   Touaricks.
                                               |
                                           +--------+
                                           |        |
                                            Russians.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846

Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846

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