Khartoum, and the Blue and White Niles, Том 2Colburn & Company, 1851 |
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... friends of the same species in England , but smaller in size and stronger in flavour . Our road led us across numberless hills interrupted by plains of sand , thickly strewn with white quartz , and granite of a very crumbly nature - the ...
... friends of the same species in England , but smaller in size and stronger in flavour . Our road led us across numberless hills interrupted by plains of sand , thickly strewn with white quartz , and granite of a very crumbly nature - the ...
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... friend or stranger enters the house of a Nubian , he is offered a dozen of them . We wanted this woman to accept a knife , but she preferred piastres , which she after- wards got changed for coffee from Daireh . My father , having been ...
... friend or stranger enters the house of a Nubian , he is offered a dozen of them . We wanted this woman to accept a knife , but she preferred piastres , which she after- wards got changed for coffee from Daireh . My father , having been ...
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... friend . To To say the truth , we existed in a kind of dependence on the river , from the dread of having to endure the sufferings which we had heard often befel travellers wandering in the desert , looking in vain for water . Our way ...
... friend . To To say the truth , we existed in a kind of dependence on the river , from the dread of having to endure the sufferings which we had heard often befel travellers wandering in the desert , looking in vain for water . Our way ...
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... Governor was very civil , obtained us thirty - three camels , and accompanied us while we remained in his district . The fact was , Kirchid Pacha , our friend the Governor of Dongola , had , in his letter , promised AND THE NILES . 57.
... Governor was very civil , obtained us thirty - three camels , and accompanied us while we remained in his district . The fact was , Kirchid Pacha , our friend the Governor of Dongola , had , in his letter , promised AND THE NILES . 57.
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... friends beat them hollow in uncouthness , as with their spears in their hands , they whirled about , each performing his particular pas , as the others kept time , and every dance ending with an embrace , for myself and my brother ...
... friends beat them hollow in uncouthness , as with their spears in their hands , they whirled about , each performing his particular pas , as the others kept time , and every dance ending with an embrace , for myself and my brother ...
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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...