Khartoum, and the Blue and White Niles, Том 2Colburn & Company, 1851 |
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... trees looked luxuriantly verdant , and the refreshing aspect of the water suggested the bath I was very soon enjoying . The three white tents were arranged in a semi - circle , another being formed by the numerous boxes - a principal ...
... trees looked luxuriantly verdant , and the refreshing aspect of the water suggested the bath I was very soon enjoying . The three white tents were arranged in a semi - circle , another being formed by the numerous boxes - a principal ...
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... seen rush- ing by numerous islands , and among bold black rocks , with the opposite shore , singu- larly verdant with date trees ; whilst above towered a majestic mountain . The desert is covered for AND THE NILES . 15.
... seen rush- ing by numerous islands , and among bold black rocks , with the opposite shore , singu- larly verdant with date trees ; whilst above towered a majestic mountain . The desert is covered for AND THE NILES . 15.
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... tree , favourable for our purpose is soon found , and in a few minutes we are seated in our little tent , on mattresses and rugs , while our unloaded camels are browsing about . Daireh brings out his meal of partridges , his biscuits ...
... tree , favourable for our purpose is soon found , and in a few minutes we are seated in our little tent , on mattresses and rugs , while our unloaded camels are browsing about . Daireh brings out his meal of partridges , his biscuits ...
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... trees . The inhabitants consist of a tolerably large family , of whom one young lady was pretty for a Nubian girl , with beautifully rounded limbs , fine shape , and an intelligent face . Having sufficiently admired her , I was informed ...
... trees . The inhabitants consist of a tolerably large family , of whom one young lady was pretty for a Nubian girl , with beautifully rounded limbs , fine shape , and an intelligent face . Having sufficiently admired her , I was informed ...
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... trees ; they become hard and dry , yet , without being so sugary as the others , are better flavoured . The former , when ripe , are placed in jars , and when a friend or stranger enters the house of a Nubian , he is offered a dozen of ...
... trees ; they become hard and dry , yet , without being so sugary as the others , are better flavoured . The former , when ripe , are placed in jars , and when a friend or stranger enters the house of a Nubian , he is offered a dozen of ...
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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...