Table of the Mecca Pilgrimage of 1880.
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Hughes, Thomas Patrick
Nationality of Pilgrims.
Arriving by Sea.
Arriving by Land.
Total of Mussulman 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 Mussalmans 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
Arabs,,from,, Oman and Hadramaut
3,000
3,000,000
Arabs,,from,, Nejd, Assir, and Hasa, most of them Wahhabites
5,000
4,000,000
Arabs,,from,, Hejaz, of these perhaps 10.000 Meccans
22,000
2,000,000
Negroes from Soudan
2,000
10,000,000(?)
Negroes,,from,, Zanzibar
1,000
1,500,000