AN ACCOUNT OF
The Mohammedan Pilgrimage to Meccah recently
performed by an Englishman professing
Mohammedanism.

By J. F. KEANE (Hajj Mohammed Amin).

At all Libraries and Book-sellers’.

The ATHENÆUM says:

“Those orthodox geographers who were startled by the American outsider’s successful walk into Africa will receive a hardly less severe shock on learning that the pilgrimage to Meccah has been performed by a youngster of five-and-twenty, apparently a sailor by profession, and with none of the special training enjoyed by his few predecessors.... The style of the work, if something eccentric and unconventional, is amusingly direct and natural, and the occasional digressions are as original and characteristic as the rest. His whole narrative, indeed, is a series of pictures.”

PUBLIC OPINION says:

“Mr. Keane has given an account of everything of interest that came under his notice when in Meccah during the pilgrim season 1877-8.... The precarious position of an unbeliever in any wholly Mohammedan town is well known, and Mr. Keane appears to have run many risks; but he has managed to give us his narrative in a modest style, free from all sorts of egotism; and any tale of Meccah that is within the comprehension of the general public will always find auditors.”

The GRAPHIC says:

“It deserves to succeed; for though full of incidents which seem marvellous even to Mr. Keane, it is rich in local colouring.... The book is well written, and deserves to be widely read. Like Captain Burton, Mr. Keane believes in the gold and precious stones of Arabia.”

The LITERARY WORLD says:

“His description of this place [the Haram] and of the ‘holy Kaabah’ is exceedingly full and interesting, and, were it possible, we should like to have given an extract from it. We give instead his description of Meccah.... The book is exceedingly readable, and helps us to a better understanding of modern Mohammedanism.”

The DAILY CHRONICLE says:

“The simplicity of the narrative precludes any idea of book-making; and the scenes described are so fresh that they will awaken considerable interest, and lead the readers to look anxiously for the fresh volume of adventure half promised by the author.”

JOHN BULL says:

“A very entertaining book.... We have little but praise to give to his spirited narrative. He is never dull, and has given us a most graphic picture of his personal experiences when making the pilgrimage to Meccah.... His account of Meccah itself, and of the various pilgrims from different countries who there congregate, is full of interest.”

The GLOBE says:

“The book is full of interest.... The author must have mixed freely with the lower classes of Asiatics, either in Arabia or elsewhere, to be able to give such faithful descriptions of what passes among them when by themselves.... Eminently readable.”

The SUNDAY TIMES says:

“He tells his own story, and gives his own experiences, with graphic power. The book is full of interest.”

VANITY FAIR says:

“Mr. Keane’s account of the pilgrimage to Meccah, in the disguise of a Mohammedan, is both interesting and amusing.”

MANCHESTER POST says:

“The book is a remarkable one—unpretentious, yet absorbing, and crammed full of incidents which have never before been narrated.”

TINSLEY BROTHERS, 8, CATHERINE STREET, STRAND.