The Boy Travellers in the Far East: Adventures of two youths in a journey to Egypt and the Holy Land. Part fourthHarper & brothers, 1883 - 438 páginas |
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... CANAL ... CHAPTER III . FROM SUEZ TO CAIRO . - THROUGH THE LAND OF GOSHEN .. STREET SCENES IN CAIRO .. CHAPTER IV . CHAPTER V. A RAMBLE THROUGH THE BAZAARS OF CAIRO ..... CHAPTER VI . MOSQUES , DERVISHES , AND SCHOOLS . - EDUCATION IN ...
... CANAL ... CHAPTER III . FROM SUEZ TO CAIRO . - THROUGH THE LAND OF GOSHEN .. STREET SCENES IN CAIRO .. CHAPTER IV . CHAPTER V. A RAMBLE THROUGH THE BAZAARS OF CAIRO ..... CHAPTER VI . MOSQUES , DERVISHES , AND SCHOOLS . - EDUCATION IN ...
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... Canal . Oriental Ships of Ancient Times ... 31 Basin and Ewer 74 32 Bottle for Rose - water . 75 Ferdinand De Lesseps . 34 Oriental Guns ... 75 Suez Canal and Eastern Egypt 35 Bab - el - Nasr .. 76 Night Scene on Lake Menzaleh .. Camel ...
... Canal . Oriental Ships of Ancient Times ... 31 Basin and Ewer 74 32 Bottle for Rose - water . 75 Ferdinand De Lesseps . 34 Oriental Guns ... 75 Suez Canal and Eastern Egypt 35 Bab - el - Nasr .. 76 Night Scene on Lake Menzaleh .. Camel ...
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... Canal was begun the French thought they needed a port somewhere near Aden , and in 1857 they sent a ship - of- war to obtain one . The ship touched at Aden for provisions , and the cap- tain was invited to dine with the general who ...
... Canal was begun the French thought they needed a port somewhere near Aden , and in 1857 they sent a ship - of- war to obtain one . The ship touched at Aden for provisions , and the cap- tain was invited to dine with the general who ...
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... Canal ; and a dozen or more native craft , in addition to the foreign ships , made the harbor of Suez appear quite picturesque . The rocky hills behind the town , and the low slopes of the opposite shore , glistened in the bright ...
... Canal ; and a dozen or more native craft , in addition to the foreign ships , made the harbor of Suez appear quite picturesque . The rocky hills behind the town , and the low slopes of the opposite shore , glistened in the bright ...
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... Canal it was little better than an SCENE NEAR SUEZ . Arab village , with less than two thousand inhabitants ; at present it is a town of ten or twelve thousand people , the majority of whom are sup- ported , directly or indirectly , by ...
... Canal it was little better than an SCENE NEAR SUEZ . Arab village , with less than two thousand inhabitants ; at present it is a town of ten or twelve thousand people , the majority of whom are sup- ported , directly or indirectly , by ...
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Alexandria ancient Egypt ancient Egyptians Arabs ascended backsheesh bank bath bazaars Bedouins Bitter Lake boat boys building built Cairo called camels Canal carried cataract centuries Christian church Cloth covered dahabeeah Damascus Dead Sea desert Doctor Bronson says Doctor explained donkeys dragoman dynasty feet high Frank and Fred friends Gate Girgeh Gizeh hills horses hour hundred interesting Jaffa Jerusalem Jordan journey Karnak kings Lake looked Luxor Mar Saba Mariette miles modern Mohammed Moslem mosque Mount mountains mummy Nabulus natives Nile Oriental party passed pyramids Rameses Rameses II Ramleh Red Sea ride river road rock ruins Sakkara sand scene sculptures seen shadoof Shtora side Sioot sometimes soon Sphinx spot statue steamer stone streets Suez Suez Canal tell temple Thebes things Tiberias told tombs town travellers Valley village walk walls wonder youths
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Página 361 - Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Beth-el, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Beth-el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
Página 360 - 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 staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
Página 113 - Tell us, for doubtless thou canst recollect, To whom should we assign the Sphinx's fame ? Was Cheops or Cephrenes architect Of either pyramid that bears his name ? Is Pompey's pillar really a misnomer ? Had Thebes a hundred gates, as sung by Homer...
Página 113 - And thou hast walked about (how strange a story !) In Thebes's streets, three thousand years ago, When the Memnonium was in all its glory, And time had not begun to overthrow Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous ! 2.
Página 408 - Are not Pharpar and Abana, rivers of Damascus, better than all the rivers of Israel?" Your objections to such an attempt, my dear Doctor, were, you may remember, two-fold. You insisted upon the advantages which the Scotsman possessed, from the very recent existence of that state of society in which his scene was to be laid. Many now alive, you remarked, well remembered...
Página 416 - In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me : 33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.