John Weeks Moore, Complete Encyclopaedia of Music… (1880)
“ Arabian Music. Lieutenant Lynch, in his "Expedition to the Dead Sea," gives a graphic description of some Arabian music, which the company enjoyed, and he endured, at one of their evening encampments, on the River Jordan, April 15, 1848. At Acre and at Tiberias, he had en-gaged some Arab chiefs to accompany the expedition. The name of one of these was Akil Agael Hassee, a border sheikh. Akil had a musical attendant, whom Lieutenant Lynch denominates Akil's bard, who sang Arabic love songs for their entertainment. ”
