We sat beside those streams and cascades, so grateful at that season of the year, conversing about the Arab factions of Kaisi and yemeni, or the Jonblat and Yesbeck parties of the Druses, or his own early years spent in exile either in the Hauran or with Mohammed 'Ali in Egypt,-but not a word about actual circumstances of the Lebanon, or about his plans for restoring the palace to more than its former splendour, which he afterwards carried out.
"Byeways in Palestine"
James Finn
"'Tis a wonderful fact that your hips swell Like boiled rice or a skin blown out," sings a satirical yemeni: the Somal retort by comparing the lank haunches of their neighbours to those of tadpoles or young frogs.
"First Footsteps in East Africa or, an Exploration of Harar"
Richard F. Burton