Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 1824, 1825, 1826, and 1827, Том 2H. Colburn, 1829 |
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... boat ? they told me , when serpents got into a boat all the rats quitted it ; and besides , that this species was innoxious . This I afterwards found to be the case ; there were few houses in Cairo and the upper country , in which these ...
... boat ? they told me , when serpents got into a boat all the rats quitted it ; and besides , that this species was innoxious . This I afterwards found to be the case ; there were few houses in Cairo and the upper country , in which these ...
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... boat ; and what with threats , bribes , and blows , I made the Arabs sink the boat on the bank of the river , and leave it immersed in water for four hours . The difficulty of this operation was very trifling , the expense small , and ...
... boat ; and what with threats , bribes , and blows , I made the Arabs sink the boat on the bank of the river , and leave it immersed in water for four hours . The difficulty of this operation was very trifling , the expense small , and ...
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... boats for ropes and candles , to explore the cave at the bottom . Our Reis endeavoured to dissuade us from so hazardous an enterprise ; but when he found we were determined on it , he volunteered to go first , and had the courage to ...
... boats for ropes and candles , to explore the cave at the bottom . Our Reis endeavoured to dissuade us from so hazardous an enterprise ; but when he found we were determined on it , he volunteered to go first , and had the courage to ...
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... boat , and in those parts where the crocodiles abound most , yet no accident occurred ; in all our route I only heard of one little girl being drawn into the river , off the bank , some months ago indeed the Arabs say that a croco- dile ...
... boat , and in those parts where the crocodiles abound most , yet no accident occurred ; in all our route I only heard of one little girl being drawn into the river , off the bank , some months ago indeed the Arabs say that a croco- dile ...
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... boat was on the shore . " Years have passed away since the light of your jocund countenance beamed upon me ; and the memory of those scenes of humour we have together witnessed , I am anxious to recall , for I fear their repetition is ...
... boat was on the shore . " Years have passed away since the light of your jocund countenance beamed upon me ; and the memory of those scenes of humour we have together witnessed , I am anxious to recall , for I fear their repetition is ...
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Alexandria Allah ancient animal Arabs arrival Assouan beauty Bedouin believe Bishop boat body Cairo called Casheff CASIDA Christian church colocynth convent Coptic Copts CRANIOLOGY crocodile Damietta Dead Sea dear Sir Desert ditto divine EDFOU Egyptian Egyptian vulture embalming endeavoured English eyes feet five four give Gourna Greek hakkim half hand harem head Hebrew Herodotus honour hundred hyenas Israelites Jerusalem Jews journey Lady H Ladyship lake LAMJA Levantine look magician Menzalè miles monks mountains mummy never night Nile Nubian observed opinion Osiris Pacha passage perhaps piastres pistol poison priests R. R. M. LETTER Red Sea religion remain ruins sacred Salehie Salt sand says seen sepulchre serpent servant Sheik shore Siout splendid Suez Surur Syria temple Thebes thee thing thou thousand Tiberias tion tomb took traveller Turk Turkish Upper Egypt village walls women word Zoan
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Стр. 182 - Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
Стр. 216 - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Стр. 301 - And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee : blessed art thou among women.
Стр. 182 - And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened ; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry...
Стр. 311 - Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
Стр. 300 - There appeared in these our days a man of great virtue, named Jesus Christ, who is yet living amongst us, and of the Gentiles is accepted for a Prophet of truth, but his own disciples call him the Son of God.
Стр. 248 - ... rumbling about my bed ; but I regarded him nothing at all. When afterwards I began to slumber, then he kept such a racket and rumbling upon the chamber stairs, as if many emptie hogsheads and barrels had been tumbled down...
Стр. 290 - There shall not be found among you any one that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Стр. 213 - Suez, as Niebuhr, with good reason, conjectures. There is no other road of three days' march, in the way from Suez towards Sinai ; nor is there any other well absolutely bitter on the whole of this coast, as far as Ras Mohammed [the extreme southern point of the peninsula].
Стр. 356 - Halley's observations on evaporation ; observations admitted by Shaw, though he calculates that the Jordan daily discharges into the Dead Sea six millions and ninety thousand tons of water, exclusively of the Arnon and seven other streams. Several travellers, and, among others, Troilo and d'Arvieux, assert that they remarked fragments of walls and palaces in the Dead Sea.