Khartoum, and the Blue and White Niles, Том 2Colburn & Company, 1851 |
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... Ali Bey Hassib Juvenile costume Mara- - - bouts · 146 CHAPTER XI . Prejudices of Nubian parents -Egyptian youths sent for education to Paris and London - Unsatis- factory result - Story of a Perversion - Its tragic vi CONTENTS .
... Ali Bey Hassib Juvenile costume Mara- - - bouts · 146 CHAPTER XI . Prejudices of Nubian parents -Egyptian youths sent for education to Paris and London - Unsatis- factory result - Story of a Perversion - Its tragic vi CONTENTS .
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... Egyptian Government - A grand prospect 161 CHAPTER XII . Mesmerism in Nubia - An Arab Seer - Awkward disclosures Journey from Berber Effects of taxation - Scenery of the desert - Gagee - The comfortable point of temperature - Intense ...
... Egyptian Government - A grand prospect 161 CHAPTER XII . Mesmerism in Nubia - An Arab Seer - Awkward disclosures Journey from Berber Effects of taxation - Scenery of the desert - Gagee - The comfortable point of temperature - Intense ...
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... Alex- andria Rain - water lakes Effects of distance - - -Ancient house - A wonderful Englishwoman- A midnight serenade - A parting scene - Farewell to Egypt . 289 KHARTOUM , AND THE BLUE AND WHITE NILES . CHAPTER CONTENTS . ix.
... Alex- andria Rain - water lakes Effects of distance - - -Ancient house - A wonderful Englishwoman- A midnight serenade - A parting scene - Farewell to Egypt . 289 KHARTOUM , AND THE BLUE AND WHITE NILES . CHAPTER CONTENTS . ix.
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... Egypt and all her wonderful relics were forgotten - we pocketed our dilet- tanteism with the greatest possible dispatch , and followed by a Bedouin chief from the neighbouring village , my brother and I set off in pursuit . The chase ...
... Egypt and all her wonderful relics were forgotten - we pocketed our dilet- tanteism with the greatest possible dispatch , and followed by a Bedouin chief from the neighbouring village , my brother and I set off in pursuit . The chase ...
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... Egypt . If the least picturesque of our encampments , it is un- doubtedly the most interesting . A crowd of notables , two of them wearing tarbooshes , came to see us ; and then followed throngs of shiny , black children , some carrying ...
... Egypt . If the least picturesque of our encampments , it is un- doubtedly the most interesting . A crowd of notables , two of them wearing tarbooshes , came to see us ; and then followed throngs of shiny , black children , some carrying ...
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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...