Khartoum, and the Blue and White Niles, Том 2Colburn & Company, 1851 |
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... - Eagles - Picturesque country — Alkaline hot springs . 1 CHAPTER II . Waking the Bedouins - Camels of the Nursery and Camels of the Desert - Travelling Nubian children - Dinner . 18 CHAPTER III . Sakkut - Desert vegetation - Arab village.
... - Eagles - Picturesque country — Alkaline hot springs . 1 CHAPTER II . Waking the Bedouins - Camels of the Nursery and Camels of the Desert - Travelling Nubian children - Dinner . 18 CHAPTER III . Sakkut - Desert vegetation - Arab village.
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George Melly. CHAPTER III . Sakkut - Desert vegetation - Arab village - A one- eyed Venus Dates at Derr Hamed Nubian - -- faith in European medicine Ruined temple - - Gazelles Lost in the desert birds - School . Flowers and 28 CHAPTER IV ...
George Melly. CHAPTER III . Sakkut - Desert vegetation - Arab village - A one- eyed Venus Dates at Derr Hamed Nubian - -- faith in European medicine Ruined temple - - Gazelles Lost in the desert birds - School . Flowers and 28 CHAPTER IV ...
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... Villages on the banks of the Mahmoudieh Canal - Nile loco- motion - Illuminations - An Eastern scene A striking contrast 276 CHAPTER XIX . Sale by auction - Dinner and ball - Ride from Alex- andria Rain - water lakes Effects of distance ...
... Villages on the banks of the Mahmoudieh Canal - Nile loco- motion - Illuminations - An Eastern scene A striking contrast 276 CHAPTER XIX . Sale by auction - Dinner and ball - Ride from Alex- andria Rain - water lakes Effects of distance ...
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... village , my brother and I set off in pursuit . The chase was very severe , but the scent i.e. footsteps in the sand , was good , and we passed hill and dale at a clipping pace for about half an hour , when we ran our game to earth in a ...
... village , my brother and I set off in pursuit . The chase was very severe , but the scent i.e. footsteps in the sand , was good , and we passed hill and dale at a clipping pace for about half an hour , when we ran our game to earth in a ...
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George Melly. hours till our early bed - time . Then the sleep , on our mattresses on the hard ground , was sleep such as I have rarely enjoyed before or since . CHAPTER III . Sakkut - Desert vegetation - Arab village AND THE NILES . 27.
George Melly. hours till our early bed - time . Then the sleep , on our mattresses on the hard ground , was sleep such as I have rarely enjoyed before or since . CHAPTER III . Sakkut - Desert vegetation - Arab village AND THE NILES . 27.
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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...