Volume 1: Account of the Bedouin Tribes: 1. Classification of Bedouin tribes that inhabit the Syrian desert; 2. Sketches; 3. The tent, and its different parts; 4. Furniture of the tent, and various utensils; 5. Bedouin dress; 6. Arms of the Bedouin; 7. Diet of the Arabs; 8. Arts and industry; 9. Wealth and property of the Bedouins; 10. Sciences, music, and poetry of the Bedouins; 11. Feasts and rejoicings; 12. Diseases and cures; 13. Education; 14. Religious worship; 15. Matrimony and divorce; 16. Government and mode of judicature; 17. Warfare and predatory excursions; 18. Blood-revenge, or Thár; 19. Robbery and theft; 20. Hospitality of the Arabs; 21. Slaves and servants; 22. Moral character of the Bedouins; 23. Cattle of the Bedouins, and other animals of the desert; 24. Vegetation of the desert; 25. Winds; 26. Additional observations; 27. Dress of the Bedouins; 28. Arms; 29. Food and cookery; 30. Industry; 31. The Arabs' wealth; 32. Sciences, music, poetry, &c.; 33. The camel-driver's song; 34. Feasts and rejoicings; 35. Diseases; 36. Vaccination; 37. Customs relative to matrimony; 38. Divorces of the Bedouins; 39. Burial of the Bedouins; 40. Religious worship; 41. Government; 42. Warfare of the Bedouins; 43. Blood-revenge; 44. Robbery and thieving; 45. The traitor; 46. Dakheil, or protection; 47. Hospitality; 48. Domestic relations; 49. General character of the Bedouins; 50. Salutation; 51. Language; 52. Sagacity in tracing of footsteps, or Athr; 53. General reflections. Volume 2: 1. Additions to the classification of Bedouin tribes; 2. Horses of Arabia; 3. Camels; 4. Locusts; Materials for a History of the Wahabys: 1. Introduction; 2. Of Saoud's person and family; 3. Wahaby government; 4. Administration of justice; 5. Revenues; 6. Military affairs of the Wahabys; 7. Ghaleb, Sherif of Mekka, and the Turkish Pasha of Baghdad, at war with the Wahabys; 8. Mohammed Aly, Pasha of Cairo, despatches his son, Tousoun Pasha, with a Turkish army to invade Arabia; 9. Mohammey Aly Pasha proceeds from Egypt with an army of Turks; 10. The Begoum Arabs headed by a woman, regarded as a sorceress by the Turks, who are defeated at Taraba; 11. Distribution of the Turkish forces in Hedjaz; 12. Turks elated with victory; 13. Abdallah Ibn Saoud enters Kasym with an army; Appendix; Index of Arabic words.
