Khartoum, and the Blue and White Niles, Том 2Colburn & Company, 1851 |
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... he did not seem an object of pity , for he was a magnificent fellow , quite white , and standing twelve hands high at the shoulder ; and though he kept up a tremendous uproar , while his burthen was being adjusted to B 2 AND THE NILES . 3.
... he did not seem an object of pity , for he was a magnificent fellow , quite white , and standing twelve hands high at the shoulder ; and though he kept up a tremendous uproar , while his burthen was being adjusted to B 2 AND THE NILES . 3.
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... Standing by , were the swarthy Arabs , peeling onions and potatoes , like English kitchen - maids ; a little further on , a group of camels were devouring fresh - cut grass , whilst their drivers , at a convenient distance in another ...
... Standing by , were the swarthy Arabs , peeling onions and potatoes , like English kitchen - maids ; a little further on , a group of camels were devouring fresh - cut grass , whilst their drivers , at a convenient distance in another ...
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... standing at thirty degrees lower than during the daytime , they shivered every time they were turned over and excited to rise . Then followed the groaning of the camels as their pack saddles were secured — a music which was not rendered ...
... standing at thirty degrees lower than during the daytime , they shivered every time they were turned over and excited to rise . Then followed the groaning of the camels as their pack saddles were secured — a music which was not rendered ...
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... standing ; others are lying imperfect on the ground . It must have been a very fine edifice - second only to Carnac . The road from this temple led direct to the desert , over a large tract of country , resembling the gravel roads of a ...
... standing ; others are lying imperfect on the ground . It must have been a very fine edifice - second only to Carnac . The road from this temple led direct to the desert , over a large tract of country , resembling the gravel roads of a ...
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... standing this statement , they suddenly changed their minds , and were more anxious to go the shorter road than we had been . Our way was through a chain of high black VOL . II . F mountains , very like an alpine pass . The scenery AND ...
... standing this statement , they suddenly changed their minds , and were more anxious to go the shorter road than we had been . Our way was through a chain of high black VOL . II . F mountains , very like an alpine pass . The scenery AND ...
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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...