Khartoum, and the Blue and White Niles, Том 2Colburn & Company, 1851 |
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... two more . The interior is in excellent preservation ; the border round the side looking remarkably gay with its bright red , green , and yellow . There are numerous hieroglyphics still re- taining the sharpness of AND THE NILES . 11.
... two more . The interior is in excellent preservation ; the border round the side looking remarkably gay with its bright red , green , and yellow . There are numerous hieroglyphics still re- taining the sharpness of AND THE NILES . 11.
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... , which cannot fail of looking pleasant after the desert all day . Possibly , however , the encampment may be in the midst of some arid plain , or under some sterile rocks ; but wherever we may be , there is our home . AND THE NILES . 25.
... , which cannot fail of looking pleasant after the desert all day . Possibly , however , the encampment may be in the midst of some arid plain , or under some sterile rocks ; but wherever we may be , there is our home . AND THE NILES . 25.
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... solitude of the desert every palm grove having given forth its dozen of swarthy gazers , its beautifully - shaped girls , its fine men , and its droll - looking children . At Derr Hamed , a large village , we bought AND THE NILES . 31.
... solitude of the desert every palm grove having given forth its dozen of swarthy gazers , its beautifully - shaped girls , its fine men , and its droll - looking children . At Derr Hamed , a large village , we bought AND THE NILES . 31.
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... looking men I ever met with ; with their dishevelled hair , and their only garb a blanket , that covered as much or as little of their persons as the temperature made desirable . One of these was especially conspicuous by his large ...
... looking men I ever met with ; with their dishevelled hair , and their only garb a blanket , that covered as much or as little of their persons as the temperature made desirable . One of these was especially conspicuous by his large ...
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... looking in vain for water . Our way had been , as usual , over vast plains , gravelly and sandy . We saw four or five petrified trees , like immense oaks , lying , some entire , some in fragments , on the ground . Two women , and a few ...
... looking in vain for water . Our way had been , as usual , over vast plains , gravelly and sandy . We saw four or five petrified trees , like immense oaks , lying , some entire , some in fragments , on the ground . Two women , and a few ...
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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...