Khartoum, and the Blue and White Niles, Том 2Colburn & Company, 1851 |
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... nearly completed , Mahomet pops his head into our tent and encourages us to get up , bringing in the very small quantum of water that can be spared for our ablutions , and the breakfast things . Toilet despatched , we retire to the back ...
... nearly completed , Mahomet pops his head into our tent and encourages us to get up , bringing in the very small quantum of water that can be spared for our ablutions , and the breakfast things . Toilet despatched , we retire to the back ...
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... nearly dark - the first gleam of sunrise is just apparent over the distant mountains . At about half - past six the sun rises ; it then becomes deliciously cool , and of all atmospheres the pleasantest I know . Pre- sently our dragoman ...
... nearly dark - the first gleam of sunrise is just apparent over the distant mountains . At about half - past six the sun rises ; it then becomes deliciously cool , and of all atmospheres the pleasantest I know . Pre- sently our dragoman ...
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... nearly made the inmates die of fright . We were obliged to shoot a couple of the most audacious . The dogs too had to be ran after and stoned for being too inquisitive respecting our dinner . We found them great con- noisseurs of soup ...
... nearly made the inmates die of fright . We were obliged to shoot a couple of the most audacious . The dogs too had to be ran after and stoned for being too inquisitive respecting our dinner . We found them great con- noisseurs of soup ...
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... nearly resembled an English park than an African desert . Where the situation was low , the air was milder , and there was con- siderable vegetation ; trees appeared occa- sionally of a large size , singly , and in AND THE NILES . 73.
... nearly resembled an English park than an African desert . Where the situation was low , the air was milder , and there was con- siderable vegetation ; trees appeared occa- sionally of a large size , singly , and in AND THE NILES . 73.
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... nearly opposite Hafir . There is an immense quantity of gum trees in this neighbourhood . I met a travelling family of wealthy Bedouins , the head head man on horseback , having with him three camels with water- skins , and AND THE ...
... nearly opposite Hafir . There is an immense quantity of gum trees in this neighbourhood . I met a travelling family of wealthy Bedouins , the head head man on horseback , having with him three camels with water- skins , and AND THE ...
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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...