e years
past at Jeddah, of the pilgrims landed at that port, and checked as far
as European subjects are concerned by reference to the consular agents
residing there. They may therefore be relied upon as fairly accurate;
while for the land pilgrimage I trust in part my own observations, made
three years ago, in part statistics obtained at Cairo and Damascus. For
the table of population in the various lands of Islam I am obliged to go
more directly to European sources of information. As may be supposed, no
statistics on this point of any value were obtainable at Jeddah; but by
taking the figures commonly given in our handbooks, and supplementing
and correcting these by reference to such persons as I could find who
knew the countries, I have, I hope, arrived at an approximation to the
truth, near enough to give a tolerable idea to general readers of the
numerical proportions of Islam. Strict accuracy, however, I do not here
pretend to, nor would it if obtainable materially help my present
argument.

The following is my table:--

TABLE OF THE MECCA PILGRIMAGE OF 1880.

| | | Total of
Nationality of Pilgrims. |Arriving|Arriving| Mussulman
|by Sea. |by Land.| population
| | | represented.
-----------------------------------------+--------+--------+------------
Ottoman subjects including pilgrims from | | |
Syria and Irak, but not from Egypt or | | |
Arabia proper | 8,500 | 1,000 | 22,000,000
| | |
Egyptians | 5,000 | 1,000 | 5,000,000
| | |
Mogrebbins ("people of the West"), that | | |
is to say Arabic-speaking Mussulmans | | |
from the Barbary States, Tripoli, | | |
Tunis, Algiers, and Morocco. These are | | |
always classed together and are not | | |
easily distinguishable from each other | 6,000 | ... | 18,000,000
| | |
Arabs from Yemen | 3,000 | ... | 2,500,000
| | |
" " Oman and Hadramaut | 3,000 | ..