Khartoum, and the Blue and White Niles, Том 2Colburn & Company, 1851 |
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... resembled I cannot pretend to say , but I thought my brother appeared very like a travelling pedlar ; his rifle , double - barrelled gun , powder - horn , water - skin , and last not least in request , " Macauley's England ...
... resembled I cannot pretend to say , but I thought my brother appeared very like a travelling pedlar ; his rifle , double - barrelled gun , powder - horn , water - skin , and last not least in request , " Macauley's England ...
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... resembling pieces of com- mon soap . A small gum caravan , and the tridges , were the only living creatures we met . We found , however , many traces of hyenas , gazelles , jackalls , and of a large species par- of vulture , which had ...
... resembling pieces of com- mon soap . A small gum caravan , and the tridges , were the only living creatures we met . We found , however , many traces of hyenas , gazelles , jackalls , and of a large species par- of vulture , which had ...
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... resembled petrified forests ; also a hill , having the appearance of an im- mense pile of slates , with vast quantities of the same useful material scattered about . The road was hard and stony all the way . After arriving at the ...
... resembled petrified forests ; also a hill , having the appearance of an im- mense pile of slates , with vast quantities of the same useful material scattered about . The road was hard and stony all the way . After arriving at the ...
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... resembling the gravel roads of a gentleman's park in England . We unsuccessfully followed a covey of partridges , and then observing something in motion , gave chase , and suddenly came upon ten gazelles , of which we had previously ...
... resembling the gravel roads of a gentleman's park in England . We unsuccessfully followed a covey of partridges , and then observing something in motion , gave chase , and suddenly came upon ten gazelles , of which we had previously ...
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... resembling it , when broken in any part , exudes a thick white juice , of a sweet flavour , and of a poisonous quality , which , we were informed , was sometimes mixed in cakes , to give the unwary traveller , that he might be the more ...
... resembling it , when broken in any part , exudes a thick white juice , of a sweet flavour , and of a poisonous quality , which , we were informed , was sometimes mixed in cakes , to give the unwary traveller , that he might be the more ...
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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...