Khartoum, and the Blue and White Niles, Том 2Colburn & Company, 1851 |
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... give in , dead - beat . My brother , however , kept up the chase half an hour longer , being rewarded every now and then for his perseverance by a sight of his game . At last , he found himself on a rock , but of the whereabouts of the ...
... give in , dead - beat . My brother , however , kept up the chase half an hour longer , being rewarded every now and then for his perseverance by a sight of his game . At last , he found himself on a rock , but of the whereabouts of the ...
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... sently our dragoman approached us , having stayed behind to give his last orders . He gallops merrily up in his usual good humour , for he always looks on the bright side of all things . Our sheik rides in advance , the small 22 KHARTOUM.
... sently our dragoman approached us , having stayed behind to give his last orders . He gallops merrily up in his usual good humour , for he always looks on the bright side of all things . Our sheik rides in advance , the small 22 KHARTOUM.
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... give up the chase , and endeavoured to return ; but , not knowing the proper direction , shortly lost ourselves , and began to experience uncomfortable misgiv- ings respecting the result of our adventure . Having a decided dislike to ...
... give up the chase , and endeavoured to return ; but , not knowing the proper direction , shortly lost ourselves , and began to experience uncomfortable misgiv- ings respecting the result of our adventure . Having a decided dislike to ...
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... give the unwary traveller , that he might be the more easily robbed . Along the banks of the river lay a luxuriant belt of verdure of considerable breadth , edged by palm and other trees . At a little distance , rose the singular ...
... give the unwary traveller , that he might be the more easily robbed . Along the banks of the river lay a luxuriant belt of verdure of considerable breadth , edged by palm and other trees . At a little distance , rose the singular ...
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... ten piastres ( 2s . ) each — and a liberal quantity of weak beer , brewed from durra - that loses the little appreciation you are inclined , at your first trial to give it , on a second acquaintance : AND THE NILES . 75.
... ten piastres ( 2s . ) each — and a liberal quantity of weak beer , brewed from durra - that loses the little appreciation you are inclined , at your first trial to give it , on a second acquaintance : AND THE NILES . 75.
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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...