Khartoum, and the Blue and White Niles, Том 2Colburn & Company, 1851 |
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... young children and place them carefully on their backs , and camels gallop for days un- repiningly over sandy deserts , never halting , though without both food and water - such are the camels of our tender years , such are not the ...
... young children and place them carefully on their backs , and camels gallop for days un- repiningly over sandy deserts , never halting , though without both food and water - such are the camels of our tender years , such are not the ...
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... 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 that she lacked an eye ; a deficiency I had not been able to discover in ...
... 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 that she lacked an eye ; a deficiency I had not been able to discover in ...
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... young girls , from seven to eighteen , were so shy , that they invariably ran away directly we made our appearance . The We killed about seven brace of partridges during our stay at this place ; they were very wild , but exceedingly ...
... young girls , from seven to eighteen , were so shy , that they invariably ran away directly we made our appearance . The We killed about seven brace of partridges during our stay at this place ; they were very wild , but exceedingly ...
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... young camel , a dog of the gazelle hunting species , and a Nubian , who is returning to his home at Gebel Berkel . He was , by his own account , to have accomplished the distance - one hun- dred and twenty miles , as the crow flies — be ...
... young camel , a dog of the gazelle hunting species , and a Nubian , who is returning to his home at Gebel Berkel . He was , by his own account , to have accomplished the distance - one hun- dred and twenty miles , as the crow flies — be ...
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... young calves , comprised all the living objects we met with at Merawah , our last stage , the men being absent with their herds . The females brought out large calabashes of excellent butter - milk , which they presented to us refusing ...
... young calves , comprised all the living objects we met with at Merawah , our last stage , the men being absent with their herds . The females brought out large calabashes of excellent butter - milk , which they presented to us refusing ...
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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...