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 | | Niebuhr, compiling an account from his own observations and notes of his colleagues, gave Western European scholars a first hand glimpse of a part of the world that was virgin terra incognita at this time. |
 | | The members of the expedition were Carsten Niebuhr (basically a graduate student), von Haven (the Arabist), Forskal (the botanist), Kramer (the physician), and Baurenfeind (the artist). |
 | | Niebuhr was an apt observer of Egyptian culture, noting, for example, that Arabic "in the mouths of the Egyptians" "difplays little of its genune purity" (p. |
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