Khartoum, and the Blue and White Niles, Том 2Colburn & Company, 1851 |
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... plains of sand , thickly strewn with white quartz , and granite of a very crumbly nature - the quartz resembling pieces of com- mon soap . A small gum caravan , and the tridges , were the only living creatures we met . We found ...
... plains of sand , thickly strewn with white quartz , and granite of a very crumbly nature - the quartz resembling pieces of com- mon soap . A small gum caravan , and the tridges , were the only living creatures we met . We found ...
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... 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.
... 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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... plain , and along the side of the river , passing the largest island in the Nile - Say Island . It is several miles in length , is covered with thick palmgroves , and boasts of considerable cultivation , which appears also on the banks ...
... plain , and along the side of the river , passing the largest island in the Nile - Say Island . It is several miles in length , is covered with thick palmgroves , and boasts of considerable cultivation , which appears also on the banks ...
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... plains of sand , with here and there gravel , covered with these ferruginous materials , mixed with innumerable cannon - balls and bullets . I could almost have fancied that we were approaching the forge of Vulcan , where he used , in ...
... plains of sand , with here and there gravel , covered with these ferruginous materials , mixed with innumerable cannon - balls and bullets . I could almost have fancied that we were approaching the forge of Vulcan , where he used , in ...
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... 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 young calves , comprised all the living objects we met with at ...
... 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 young calves , comprised all the living objects we met with at ...
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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. 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...