Khartoum, and the Blue and White Niles, Том 2Colburn & Company, 1851 |
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... observation , were then nicely balanced upon it ; over this a light mattrass was either thrown across , or the ends turned up at each end , forming a sort of chair , the rider's feet resting either on the animal's neck , or in stirrups ...
... observation , were then nicely balanced upon it ; over this a light mattrass was either thrown across , or the ends turned up at each end , forming a sort of chair , the rider's feet resting either on the animal's neck , or in stirrups ...
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... observe winding its course along a narrow pathway of broken rocks , among the curiously - shaped cal- careous banks , full of holes , and rising like a wall from the lower plain . When we had reached the bottom , our eyes were regaled ...
... observe winding its course along a narrow pathway of broken rocks , among the curiously - shaped cal- careous banks , full of holes , and rising like a wall from the lower plain . When we had reached the bottom , our eyes were regaled ...
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... observation , and the sculpture is painted blue . scriptions appear to be of the same character as those we observed at Carnac and Aboo- simhel , but the industry of mason bees is here throwing that of man a little in the background ...
... observation , and the sculpture is painted blue . scriptions appear to be of the same character as those we observed at Carnac and Aboo- simhel , but the industry of mason bees is here throwing that of man a little in the background ...
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... observe the prevalence of the sandy colour of the soil in the creatures that have to exist upon it . Sandy coloured eagles devour sandy coloured vipers and lizards , which in their turn prey on grass- hoppers and slugs of the same ...
... observe the prevalence of the sandy colour of the soil in the creatures that have to exist upon it . Sandy coloured eagles devour sandy coloured vipers and lizards , which in their turn prey on grass- hoppers and slugs of the same ...
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... Saviour's shoes . These are but a few of the innumerable passages of the Bible , which desert travelling daily brought to our remembrance . Further we observed some genuine Arab tents ; and again we went out of our way 72 KHARTOUM.
... Saviour's shoes . These are but a few of the innumerable passages of the Bible , which desert travelling daily brought to our remembrance . Further we observed some genuine Arab tents ; and again we went out of our way 72 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. 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...