Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land, Bind 1Harper, 1837 - 264 sider |
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... cross - legged habits of the Eastern people . She was manned by ten Arabs , good stout fellows , and a rais or captain . CHAPTER II . From Alexandria to Cairo . - Experience versus Travellers ' Tales .-- An un- intended Bath . - Iron ...
... cross - legged habits of the Eastern people . She was manned by ten Arabs , good stout fellows , and a rais or captain . CHAPTER II . From Alexandria to Cairo . - Experience versus Travellers ' Tales .-- An un- intended Bath . - Iron ...
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... cross ; on the other side we saw a strapping Arab , and called to him to come and carry us over . Like most of his tribe , he was not troubled with any superfluous clothing , and , slipping over his head the frag- ments of his frock ...
... cross ; on the other side we saw a strapping Arab , and called to him to come and carry us over . Like most of his tribe , he was not troubled with any superfluous clothing , and , slipping over his head the frag- ments of his frock ...
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... cross a large square filled with officers and soldiers , surrounded by what are called palaces , but seeing nothing that can interest him save the house in which the gallant Kleber , the hero of many a bloody field , died ingloriously ...
... cross a large square filled with officers and soldiers , surrounded by what are called palaces , but seeing nothing that can interest him save the house in which the gallant Kleber , the hero of many a bloody field , died ingloriously ...
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... cross the desert to Cossier , and down the Red Sea to the Holy City . They were coming from all parts of the Mussulman dominions , poor and rich , old and young , women and children , almost piled upon each other , by scores , for ...
... cross the desert to Cossier , and down the Red Sea to the Holy City . They were coming from all parts of the Mussulman dominions , poor and rich , old and young , women and children , almost piled upon each other , by scores , for ...
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... crosses the plain , a comparatively unknown and unnoticed , but stupendous work , which for more than three thousand years has resisted the headlong current of the Nile at its highest , and now stands , like the pyramids , not so ...
... crosses the plain , a comparatively unknown and unnoticed , but stupendous work , which for more than three thousand years has resisted the headlong current of the Nile at its highest , and now stands , like the pyramids , not so ...
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Side 160 - Noph ; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt. It shall be the basest of the nations, neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations : for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.
Side 132 - 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.
Side 131 - All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch...
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Side 132 - Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.