ABDE. See 'Abdeh, El.

'Abdeh, El, confounded with El-'Aujeh,

295.

Aboo Retemât. See Retemât.
'Adar, identified with Qadayrât, 215,
280 f., 290, 313.
Aduma. See Atuma.
Ægyptos, a name of Egypt, 56.
Egyptus, a name of Sesostris, 56.
Elanitic gulf. See 'Aqabah, gulf of.
'Agrood. See 'Ajrood.

Aileh. See Eloth.

"Ain Khadees." See 'Ayn Qadees.
'Ajrood, probable location of Pi-hahiroth
at, 406, 422.

'Akrabbim, meaning of the word, 109,
111 f.

'Akrabbim, Ascent of: a turn in the
boundary-line at, 107 f., 111, 113 ƒ.;
its proposed location in the 'Arabah,
109; a description, not a proper
name, 111 f.; its proposed location
at Pass es-Sufah, 111; its proposed
location at Pass el-Yemen, 111 ff,

126.

'Akrood. See 'Ajrood.

"Although," Hebrew word translated,
398.

Amalek, Arab traditions concerning, 41.
Amalekites, 18, 37, 55, 332; Arab tradi-

tions of their ancestry, 41; Bible
account of their ancestry, 40 f., 98;
field of the, 40 f., 99, 306.
Amen-Ra, 411 ƒ.

American scholars concerning Row-

lands's discovery, 223 f.
'Amir, 'Ammûrieh, 'Amr, forms of the
word 'Omar, 246.
Ammon, oracle of, 43.

Amorites, 18, 37; location of their terri-
tory, 65; a representative people,
65 f.; the "Highlanders," 65 f.;
mountains, or hill-country of, 65 ff.;
Way of the Hill-country of. See
Road.

Anastasi papyri, See Papyri Anastasi.
Anboo: understood to mean the Wall, 47;

Egyptian name of a fortification, 48;
a plural word, 48; designates a line
of fortresses, 48 f.

Anbu. See Anboo.

Apda Martu, "the Conqueror of the
West," 32.

Apocrypha: Edom in the, 101; Kadesh
in the, 165 ff.; origin of the name
Kadesh-palm from a misreading in
the, 197.

'Aqabah: fort of, 42; gulf of, 36; name
Yam Sooph applied to gulf of,
358.

Arab: traditions, 41, 131, 135 f.; conser-

vatism, 72 f.; pretended ignorance,
230, 256 f., 294 f.; method of ratify-
ing a contract, 252 f.; estimate of the
value of books, 256 f., 261; use of
weapons, 260; estimate of enemies,
260; distinction between theft and
"tax-collecting," 265 ff.; hostilities,
danger from, 268 f.; timidity, 265,
276, 279, 296; knowledge of the de-
sert exaggerated, 279; method of
encampment, 281; women at Qasay-
meh, 292; short cut, 292 ff.; con-
tempt for the truth, 293 f.; super-
stitions, 294, 297 ff.; mode of balanc-
ing an account, 296 f.; shrewdness,
296 f.; dread of Christian invasion,
298 f.; unwillingness to guide trav-