Khartoum, and the Blue and White Niles, Том 2Colburn & Company, 1851 |
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... scarcely appre- ciated . One day we met a Bedouin , rich in herds , who was pursuing a single sheep , or camel , across the sandy wastes , tracking the animal by its footsteps ; the next , we might come on the ninety and nine left ...
... scarcely appre- ciated . One day we met a Bedouin , rich in herds , who was pursuing a single sheep , or camel , across the sandy wastes , tracking the animal by its footsteps ; the next , we might come on the ninety and nine left ...
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... Scarcely had they departed when we received a large basket of figs , bananas , pomegranates , and cream - fruit - the last most delicious to the taste , as might be expected from its name . With it came the following letter : " My Lord ...
... Scarcely had they departed when we received a large basket of figs , bananas , pomegranates , and cream - fruit - the last most delicious to the taste , as might be expected from its name . With it came the following letter : " My Lord ...
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... scarcely fair that I have ventured to say nothing about my own . I have said nothing on this interesting sub- ject , for the very simple reason that I - have nothing to say . But merely in com- pliance with a principle of justice , I ...
... scarcely fair that I have ventured to say nothing about my own . I have said nothing on this interesting sub- ject , for the very simple reason that I - have nothing to say . But merely in com- pliance with a principle of justice , I ...
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... Scarcely was the plank adjusted for our stepping ashore , when Mahamet Elmi , the sub - governor of Berber , a well - dressed and curious little Turk , apparently as quiet as a dormouse , came to the boat to pay his respects to us ...
... Scarcely was the plank adjusted for our stepping ashore , when Mahamet Elmi , the sub - governor of Berber , a well - dressed and curious little Turk , apparently as quiet as a dormouse , came to the boat to pay his respects to us ...
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... scarcely arrived at manhood , when he gave up his mind entirely to the political sentiments then prevailing in the French capital- sentiments as antagonistic as possible to those which existed in Egypt . This , however , was far from ...
... scarcely arrived at manhood , when he gave up his mind entirely to the political sentiments then prevailing in the French capital- sentiments as antagonistic as possible to those which existed in Egypt . This , however , was far from ...
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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...