Khartoum, and the Blue and White Niles, Том 2Colburn & Company, 1851 |
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... Cairo- The Esbekya - Abbas Pacha and the Porte- The Census Cairene ladies Their - - even- ing parties - Palaces of the Pacha - The Over- land Route - An American - Mehemet Ali's Palace 253 CHAPTER XVIII . Barrege - Cotton - boats on the ...
... Cairo- The Esbekya - Abbas Pacha and the Porte- The Census Cairene ladies Their - - even- ing parties - Palaces of the Pacha - The Over- land Route - An American - Mehemet Ali's Palace 253 CHAPTER XVIII . Barrege - Cotton - boats on the ...
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... pleasure with profit , from Cairo to the Obaid Kordofan , & c . , taking manufactures and returning He was waiting for some of his with gum . camels , of which he had three hundred en route . We were almost as glad as he 16 KHARTOUM.
... pleasure with profit , from Cairo to the Obaid Kordofan , & c . , taking manufactures and returning He was waiting for some of his with gum . camels , of which he had three hundred en route . We were almost as glad as he 16 KHARTOUM.
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... Cairo biscuits and white sugar as the best educated English children could have displayed . At about two o'clock , the caravan passes in front of our tent , Abbas sitting on his gay rug , smoking his pipe , advances for his orders ...
... Cairo biscuits and white sugar as the best educated English children could have displayed . At about two o'clock , the caravan passes in front of our tent , Abbas sitting on his gay rug , smoking his pipe , advances for his orders ...
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... Cairo . On , how- ever , we proceeded ; on our way observing some fine scenery - a remarkable feature of which appeared in the shape of rocks , formed of grotesque masses of black stones , having a bloom upon them like that of a ripe ...
... Cairo . On , how- ever , we proceeded ; on our way observing some fine scenery - a remarkable feature of which appeared in the shape of rocks , formed of grotesque masses of black stones , having a bloom upon them like that of a ripe ...
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... Cairo was too far off for complaints . The instant we left , the lessons were resumed ; and I can almost fancy that I still hear the hum of the boys repeating their tasks . The next morning , we suddenly came upon a large covey of ...
... Cairo was too far off for complaints . The instant we left , the lessons were resumed ; and I can almost fancy that I still hear the hum of the boys repeating their tasks . The next morning , we suddenly came upon a large covey of ...
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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. 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...