A Ride in Egypt, from Sioot to Luxor in 1879: With Notes on the Present State and Ancient History of Nile Valley, and Some Account of the Various Ways of Making the Voyage Out and HomeMacmillan and Company, 1879 - 399 Seiten |
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... seemed tolerably smooth after the Bay of Biscay or the Dover Channel , the ship had an awkward way of veering to avoid a wave , and ducking every one who had been so foolish as to remain on deck . Taking a farewell look at the ...
... seemed tolerably smooth after the Bay of Biscay or the Dover Channel , the ship had an awkward way of veering to avoid a wave , and ducking every one who had been so foolish as to remain on deck . Taking a farewell look at the ...
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... seemed to perceive no one in his path , and all made way for him . We hoped he would not walk into our carriage . An official duly decorated with the shepherd's plaid came out to him , but approached him respectfully . He endeavoured to ...
... seemed to perceive no one in his path , and all made way for him . We hoped he would not walk into our carriage . An official duly decorated with the shepherd's plaid came out to him , but approached him respectfully . He endeavoured to ...
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... seemed to sway them as a wind sways the grass . He was a man who had suffered for his mission . He was not clothed in soft raiment . He had mutilated his body . He was naked and maimed . And though we understood not a word he said , yet ...
... seemed to sway them as a wind sways the grass . He was a man who had suffered for his mission . He was not clothed in soft raiment . He had mutilated his body . He was naked and maimed . And though we understood not a word he said , yet ...
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... seemed to shine on her white apron . She looked so appealingly out of her long , thickly - fringed eyes that it was impossible not to beg that she might be pardoned , particularly as she did not look in the least naughty . The ...
... seemed to shine on her white apron . She looked so appealingly out of her long , thickly - fringed eyes that it was impossible not to beg that she might be pardoned , particularly as she did not look in the least naughty . The ...
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... seemed ! I had two ' goes , ' and then rushed back to tell my American . Poor little fellow , he was almost insensible , and I could hardly get him roused to come with me . A glass of wine and one of water soon brought him round - and ...
... seemed ! I had two ' goes , ' and then rushed back to tell my American . Poor little fellow , he was almost insensible , and I could hardly get him roused to come with me . A glass of wine and one of water soon brought him round - and ...
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Abood Amen ancient anteekas Antiquary Arab backsheesh bank beautiful Beni Hassan Boolak boys building Cairo called Chafra Collector colour Coptic Copts Crown 8vo crude brick dark Dendera dervishes donkey dynasty early Edition Egyptian England English European evidently eyes face famine fcap feet fellah Fostat Girgeh Government Greek green Gypt Hassan heaps hieroglyphic HISTORY Horus hour Illustrations inscription inundation Ismail Pasha Karnac Keneh Khedive kings labour land least look Luxor Manetho Mariette Maydoom monuments morning mosque mound mountains Museum Nefert never night Nile obelisk Osiris palms passed perhaps piastres Portrait Professor Ptah pylon Pyramid Rameses ride river Roman round Sakkara sand scarabs Scot sculptures seemed seen Seneferoo shadoof sheykh Shoofoo side sight Sioot Soohag Sphinx steamer stone strange temple tent Thebes Thothmes tion tomb town traveller twelfth dynasty Upper Egypt village walls
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