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The latter two travellers contributed, with a consider­
able number of publications, to the dissemination and con­
solidation of knowledge about South and Southeast Arabia.
A comparison with Wellsted’s descriptions makes two
things clear:
(1) the reliability of Wellsted’s observations, which has al­
ready been emphasized and
(2) the negligible changes that had taken place in the
course of one century in this part of the world.
Up to this point, only those results of Wellsted’s ex­
peditions which are recorded in the first volume have been
referred to. This is due above all to the fact that Wellsted’s
writings on South and Southeast Arabia deal with an area

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