Khartoum, and the Blue and White Niles, Том 2Colburn & Company, 1851 |
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... never exhibit any feelings whatever , this apparent indifference was not so sur- prising . We heard of ruins upon an island on the river which some travellers had recently visited ; but the account of them that was related to us did not ...
... never exhibit any feelings whatever , this apparent indifference was not so sur- prising . We heard of ruins upon an island on the river which some travellers had recently visited ; but the account of them that was related to us did not ...
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... hour . Daireh , our invaluable dragoman , who was never known to forget himself , any thing or any one , 18 KHARTOUM CHAPTER II Waking the Bedouins-Camels of the Nursery Camels of the Desert Travelling Nubian children-Dinner.
... hour . Daireh , our invaluable dragoman , who was never known to forget himself , any thing or any one , 18 KHARTOUM CHAPTER II Waking the Bedouins-Camels of the Nursery Camels of the Desert Travelling Nubian children-Dinner.
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... never halting , though without both food and water - such are the camels of our tender years , such are not the camels of our experience . Instead of this poetic patience , they growl savagely , making one of the most disagreeable ...
... never halting , though without both food and water - such are the camels of our tender years , such are not the camels of our experience . Instead of this poetic patience , they growl savagely , making one of the most disagreeable ...
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... never - ending soupe à la Julienne . Appetite , however , seasons the humblest meal ; and , therefore , it was seldom that either soup or stew was neglected . Indeed , to say nothing more than the truth , on many occasions , the novelty ...
... never - ending soupe à la Julienne . Appetite , however , seasons the humblest meal ; and , therefore , it was seldom that either soup or stew was neglected . Indeed , to say nothing more than the truth , on many occasions , the novelty ...
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... never so happy as when they could make themselves of the slightest possible use to any of us . Leaving our encampment at dawn , we soon reached a ruin consisting of the frag- ments of a temple : one column alone re- mained 34 KHARTOUM.
... never so happy as when they could make themselves of the slightest possible use to any of us . Leaving our encampment at dawn , we soon reached a ruin consisting of the frag- ments of a temple : one column alone re- mained 34 KHARTOUM.
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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. 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...