Khartoum, and the Blue and White Niles, Том 2Colburn & Company, 1851 |
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... entirely to ourselves . Every ferry - boat had brought at least a dozen gazers from Wadeh Halfeh , and the bank could boast an un- usual collection of picturesque objects , look- ing in the distance like bundles of white linen ...
... entirely to ourselves . Every ferry - boat had brought at least a dozen gazers from Wadeh Halfeh , and the bank could boast an un- usual collection of picturesque objects , look- ing in the distance like bundles of white linen ...
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... entirely without leaves . The euphorbia , or a plant closely resembling it , when broken in any part , exudes a thick white juice , of a sweet flavour , and of a poisonous quality , which , we were informed , was sometimes mixed in ...
... entirely without leaves . The euphorbia , or a plant closely resembling it , when broken in any part , exudes a thick white juice , of a sweet flavour , and of a poisonous quality , which , we were informed , was sometimes mixed in ...
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... hollow , roofed with earth , so as to be entirely sheltered , the water being drawn in leathern buckets , and emptied into troughs formed on the ground . Nor did we wonder at Rachel's fearing to approach such 68 KHARTOUM.
... hollow , roofed with earth , so as to be entirely sheltered , the water being drawn in leathern buckets , and emptied into troughs formed on the ground . Nor did we wonder at Rachel's fearing to approach such 68 KHARTOUM.
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... entirely blocking up the bazaar ; but they readily made way for us , partly from some fearful misgivings about our origin , and partly because a somewhat awful - looking personage , clothed in red jacket and boots , and AND THE NILES . 87.
... entirely blocking up the bazaar ; but they readily made way for us , partly from some fearful misgivings about our origin , and partly because a somewhat awful - looking personage , clothed in red jacket and boots , and AND THE NILES . 87.
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... entirely disclaimed the feats that had been attributed to him , such as dividing oxen , and severing cushions or silk - handkerchiefs with a single blow of his sabre . He , however , gave us a very animated account of the war in ...
... entirely disclaimed the feats that had been attributed to him , such as dividing oxen , and severing cushions or silk - handkerchiefs with a single blow of his sabre . He , however , gave us a very animated account of the war in ...
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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...