Khartoum, and the Blue and White Niles, Том 2Colburn & Company, 1851 |
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... , smoking his pipe , advances for his orders , respecting our next halt . These having been fully explained , we presently behold them crossing the mirage , which , in the distance , makes them appear as if they were 24 KHARTOUM.
... , smoking his pipe , advances for his orders , respecting our next halt . These having been fully explained , we presently behold them crossing the mirage , which , in the distance , makes them appear as if they were 24 KHARTOUM.
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... respecting the result of our adventure . Having a decided dislike to add to the collection of beautifully bleached skeletons the desert contained , we renewed our endea- vours to recover our lost track , and by great good fortune at ...
... respecting the result of our adventure . Having a decided dislike to add to the collection of beautifully bleached skeletons the desert contained , we renewed our endea- vours to recover our lost track , and by great good fortune at ...
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... respecting our dinner . We found them great con- noisseurs of soup , and possessed of a respectable taste for more solid cookery . A superstition prevails which prevents these curs from being destroyed , so they multiply at a ...
... respecting our dinner . We found them great con- noisseurs of soup , and possessed of a respectable taste for more solid cookery . A superstition prevails which prevents these curs from being destroyed , so they multiply at a ...
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George Melly. thirty ready to meet us at Berber . At a hint respecting the forwarding of our letters , he volunteered to send them by a special mes- senger from station to station on swift dromedaries to Assouan , whence men would run ...
George Melly. thirty ready to meet us at Berber . At a hint respecting the forwarding of our letters , he volunteered to send them by a special mes- senger from station to station on swift dromedaries to Assouan , whence men would run ...
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... of a most illustrious generation . Long before our arrival , rumours were in circulation respecting us that increased in extravagance every hour . Among other veracious statements , it was affirmed that a gentleman , 104 KHARTOUM.
... of a most illustrious generation . Long before our arrival , rumours were in circulation respecting us that increased in extravagance every hour . Among other veracious statements , it was affirmed that a gentleman , 104 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. 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...