Khartoum, and the Blue and White Niles, Том 2Colburn & Company, 1851 |
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... scene · • 42 CHAPTER V. Gebel Birkel - Antiquities - Appearance of the country - Hawks - A pastoral scene - Illustrations of Holy Writ — Arab dwellings - Wady Bashana Bedouin revels Christmas Day in the desert 59 CHAPTER VI . Khartoum ...
... scene · • 42 CHAPTER V. Gebel Birkel - Antiquities - Appearance of the country - Hawks - A pastoral scene - Illustrations of Holy Writ — Arab dwellings - Wady Bashana Bedouin revels Christmas Day in the desert 59 CHAPTER VI . Khartoum ...
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... scene A striking contrast 276 CHAPTER XIX . Sale by auction - Dinner and ball - Ride from Alex- andria Rain - water lakes Effects of distance - - -Ancient house - A wonderful Englishwoman- A midnight serenade - A parting scene ...
... scene A striking contrast 276 CHAPTER XIX . Sale by auction - Dinner and ball - Ride from Alex- andria Rain - water lakes Effects of distance - - -Ancient house - A wonderful Englishwoman- A midnight serenade - A parting scene ...
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... scene entirely to ourselves . Every ferry - boat had brought at least a dozen gazers from Wadeh Halfeh , and the bank could boast an un- usual collection of picturesque objects , look- ing in the distance like bundles of white linen ...
... scene entirely to ourselves . Every ferry - boat had brought at least a dozen gazers from Wadeh Halfeh , and the bank could boast an un- usual collection of picturesque objects , look- ing in the distance like bundles of white linen ...
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... scene we leave behind : the ground is covered with our baggage - the fire in which our omelette was prepared , is flickering out ; a few Bedouins run from their work to warm their hands from time to time at its last embers . The camels ...
... scene we leave behind : the ground is covered with our baggage - the fire in which our omelette was prepared , is flickering out ; a few Bedouins run from their work to warm their hands from time to time at its last embers . The camels ...
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... scene , the sense of adventure , and the fatigue of the day's journey , lent such a relish to our unpretending cuisine , that we enjoyed ourselves a great deal more than it is probable we should have done , had we dined at the best ...
... scene , the sense of adventure , and the fatigue of the day's journey , lent such a relish to our unpretending cuisine , that we enjoyed ourselves a great deal more than it is probable we should have done , had we dined at the best ...
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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...