Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land, Volumele 1-2Harper, 1837 |
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Pagina 14
... wind , and their little boat with its huge latteen sail , giving a strange wildness to their appearance , the effect of which was not a little heightened by their noise and confusion in attempting to come alongside . Failing in their ...
... wind , and their little boat with its huge latteen sail , giving a strange wildness to their appearance , the effect of which was not a little heightened by their noise and confusion in attempting to come alongside . Failing in their ...
Pagina 28
... wind which , books and travellers tell us , for nine months in the year continues to blow the same way , making it an easy matter to ascend from the Mediterranean to the cataracts , even against the strong current of the river ; and I ...
... wind which , books and travellers tell us , for nine months in the year continues to blow the same way , making it an easy matter to ascend from the Mediterranean to the cataracts , even against the strong current of the river ; and I ...
Pagina 29
... wind would let them . Our men had nothing to do ; all day they lay strewed about on deck ; towards even- ing they gathered around a large pilau of rice , and , as the sun was setting , one after the other , turning his face towards the ...
... wind would let them . Our men had nothing to do ; all day they lay strewed about on deck ; towards even- ing they gathered around a large pilau of rice , and , as the sun was setting , one after the other , turning his face towards the ...
Pagina 57
... winds upward to a steep ascent of eight or nine feet , and then falls into the natural passage , which is five feet high and one hundred feet long , forming a continued ascent to a sort of landing - place ; in a small recess of this is ...
... winds upward to a steep ascent of eight or nine feet , and then falls into the natural passage , which is five feet high and one hundred feet long , forming a continued ascent to a sort of landing - place ; in a small recess of this is ...
Pagina 58
... winds of heaven . There is something curious about this sarcopha- gus too . It is exactly the size of the orifice which forms the entrance of the pyramid , and could not have been conveyed to its place by any of the now known passages ...
... winds of heaven . There is something curious about this sarcopha- gus too . It is exactly the size of the orifice which forms the entrance of the pyramid , and could not have been conveyed to its place by any of the now known passages ...
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Akaba ancient Arabian Arabs Assouan bank beautiful Bedouins boat buried Cairo camels caravan Cataracts chamber Christian companions convent cross dark Dead Sea desert desolate door dromedary Edom Egypt Egyptian Engravings eyes face feeling feet foot gate gave governor grave ground half hand head Hebron Holy Land horse hour Idumea interest janizary Jerusalem Jews journey living looked miserable monks morning moun Mount Mount Hor mountains Mussulman naked never night Nile Nubian o'clock pacha palm-trees passed Paul Petra pilgrims Portrait propylon pyramids Red Sea returned river rock ruins sand scene seemed seen sheik shore side Sinai Siout sitting spot standing stone stood stranger sword tain temple tent Thebes thing tion told tomb of Samuel tombs Toualeb traveller tribe Turk Turkish turned Upper Egypt valley village vols walked walls whole wild wind
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Pagina 140 - And they came unto the brook of Eshcol and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates and of the figs.
Pagina 70 - They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, And all her princes shall be nothing. And thorns shall come up in her palaces, Nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: And it shall be an habitation of dragons, And a court for owls.
Pagina 88 - Moreover, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, set thy face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it, and say unto it, Thus saith the Lord God...
Pagina 250 - And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.
Pagina 310 - Sallust's Jugurthine War and Conspiracy of Catiline, with an English Commentary, and Geographical and Historical Indexes. By Charles Anthon, LL.D. Sixth Edition, corrected and enlarged. 12mo. With a Portrait. Select Orations of Cicero, with an English Commentary, and Historical, Geographical, and Legal Indexes.
Pagina 38 - It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
Pagina 307 - The History of Modern Europe : with a View of the Progress of Society, from the Rise of the Modern Kingdoms to the Peace of Paris, in 1763.
Pagina 88 - Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity...
Pagina 167 - So I went in and saw ; and, behold, every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about.
Pagina 89 - And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son ; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount. And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.