Khartoum, and the Blue and White Niles, Том 2Colburn & Company, 1851 |
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... English weather - In sight of the Nile - Arrival at Korosko · 215 CHAPTER XVI . The Cataracts - Fogs - Keneh - A gang of convicts- Nile thieves - Domestic merchants - Shadoofs- Taxation - Ossioot - The Conscription - Female relations ...
... English weather - In sight of the Nile - Arrival at Korosko · 215 CHAPTER XVI . The Cataracts - Fogs - Keneh - A gang of convicts- Nile thieves - Domestic merchants - Shadoofs- Taxation - Ossioot - The Conscription - Female relations ...
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... English one , but the best their Eastern lungs could produce . The Reises , and some others , offered us their hands to shake , and numerous were the parting salaams and adieux we received , as we stalked majestically away . The high ...
... English one , but the best their Eastern lungs could produce . The Reises , and some others , offered us their hands to shake , and numerous were the parting salaams and adieux we received , as we stalked majestically away . The high ...
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... English kitchen - maids ; a little further on , a group of camels were devouring fresh - cut grass , whilst their drivers , at a convenient distance in another group , were eating with equal relish dates and bread . On the other side ...
... English kitchen - maids ; a little further on , a group of camels were devouring fresh - cut grass , whilst their drivers , at a convenient distance in another group , were eating with equal relish dates and bread . On the other side ...
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... 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 , respecting our next halt . These having been fully ...
... 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 , respecting our next halt . These having been fully ...
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... English deer . As some compensation for our disappoint- ment in suffering them to escape , we after- wards shot six brace of partridges out of five coveys ; this made the day decidedly the gamest we had had . We resumed our journey ...
... English deer . As some compensation for our disappoint- ment in suffering them to escape , we after- wards shot six brace of partridges out of five coveys ; this made the day decidedly the gamest we had had . We resumed our journey ...
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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. 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...