Khartoum, and the Blue and White Niles, Том 2Colburn & Company, 1851 |
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... - Picturesque country — Alkaline hot springs . 1 CHAPTER II . Waking the Bedouins - Camels of the Nursery and Camels of the Desert - Travelling Nubian children - Dinner . 18 CHAPTER III . Sakkut - Desert vegetation - Arab village.
... - Picturesque country — Alkaline hot springs . 1 CHAPTER II . Waking the Bedouins - Camels of the Nursery and Camels of the Desert - Travelling Nubian children - Dinner . 18 CHAPTER III . Sakkut - Desert vegetation - Arab village.
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... Arab superstition - Verdure on the banks of the Nile - Pastoral scene · • 42 CHAPTER V. Gebel Birkel - Antiquities - Appearance of the country - Hawks - A pastoral scene - Illustrations of Holy Writ — Arab dwellings - Wady Bashana ...
... Arab superstition - Verdure on the banks of the Nile - Pastoral scene · • 42 CHAPTER V. Gebel Birkel - Antiquities - Appearance of the country - Hawks - A pastoral scene - Illustrations of Holy Writ — Arab dwellings - Wady Bashana ...
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... Arab Seer - Awkward disclosures Journey from Berber Effects of taxation - Scenery of the desert - Gagee - The comfortable point of temperature - Intense heat- Giraffes · 175 CHAPTER XIII . A sudden change - Burial in the desert - Arab ...
... Arab Seer - Awkward disclosures Journey from Berber Effects of taxation - Scenery of the desert - Gagee - The comfortable point of temperature - Intense heat- Giraffes · 175 CHAPTER XIII . A sudden change - Burial in the desert - Arab ...
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... Arab merchants - Making up a small parcel - Rain in the desert - The mirage - First rate calculators- English weather - In sight of the Nile - Arrival at Korosko · 215 CHAPTER XVI . The Cataracts - Fogs - Keneh - A gang of convicts ...
... Arab merchants - Making up a small parcel - Rain in the desert - The mirage - First rate calculators- English weather - In sight of the Nile - Arrival at Korosko · 215 CHAPTER XVI . The Cataracts - Fogs - Keneh - A gang of convicts ...
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... arabic ; they were accom- panied by four Bedouins , naked to the waist , bearing a striking resemblance to those very imaginative portraits that adorn the wrap- pers- 66 ' Of thine incomparable oil Macassar . " Our first encampment had ...
... arabic ; they were accom- panied by four Bedouins , naked to the waist , bearing a striking resemblance to those very imaginative portraits that adorn the wrap- pers- 66 ' Of thine incomparable oil Macassar . " Our first encampment had ...
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Aboohamed Admiral Fisher's agreeable appearance Arab arrived ARTHUR CONWAY Assuan banks bazaar beautiful Bedouins beheld Berber Bey Hassib blue boat brought Cairo camels caravan CO.'S NEW PUBLICATIONS coffee COLBURN AND CO.'S covered covey Daireh desert diabeheeh distance divan Dongola doum palms dragoman dromedaries durra Egypt Egyptian encampment England English European extremely feet four friends gazelles GEORGE MELLY Government Governor hareem hills hippopotamus hundred immense interesting Janissaries journey Khartoum Kordofan Korosko ladies Latiffe Pacha looking Marian Withers Mehemet Mehemet Ali miles morning mountains native night Nubian numerous o'clock palace partridges party passed piastres picturesque pipes plain proceeded pyramids resembling river road rocks round saddle sand scarcely scene seen servants Sheik side sight stones tents thought thousand tion town travelling trees Turkish twenty village vols Wady Halfa White Nile wind yards young
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Стр. 110 - Architecture in these regions being in an extremely primitive condition, the arrangement of the streets is just what might be expected from the aspect of the houses. There are no spacious thoroughfares ; here and there appears something like a square, or space — but the perspective generally is by no means such as would satisfy the humblest European judgment in thu art of building.
Стр. 33 - ... being handsome; but, Sir, if you please to recollect, you before hinted something about a hump or two, one eye, and a few more graces of that kind. Now, without being very nice, I own I should rather choose a wife of mine to have the usual number of limbs, and a limited quantity of back: and though one eye may be very agreeable, yet as the prejudice has always run in favour of two, I would not wish to affect a singularity in that article.
Стр. 73 - ... they were all eaten by a wolf (hyena), and scattered over the desert, while he was away leading some merchants over the sandy plains. When, after a march of ten days over stony hills, and arid plains of deep sand, we came suddenly upon the broad river, winding through the rich green of the durracovered banks, we could exclaim with the Psalmist, " He maketh me to lie down in green pastures ; He leadeth me beside still waters;" and as a Bedouin in advance of us called his servant, who was walking...