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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... Doctor told them the jour- ney was out of the question , as no Christian is allowed to enter the sacred city of the ... Dr. Bronson . " He prepared himself for his travels by studying the Arabic language , and went in the disguise of an ...
... Doctor told them the jour- ney was out of the question , as no Christian is allowed to enter the sacred city of the ... Dr. Bronson . " He prepared himself for his travels by studying the Arabic language , and went in the disguise of an ...
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... doctor came on board , and was soon convinced that no reason existed VIEW OF MEDINA ( FROM A DRAWING BY A NATIVE ARTIST ) . why the passengers , who chose to do so , might not go on shore . Doctor Bronson and his young friends bargained ...
... doctor came on board , and was soon convinced that no reason existed VIEW OF MEDINA ( FROM A DRAWING BY A NATIVE ARTIST ) . why the passengers , who chose to do so , might not go on shore . Doctor Bronson and his young friends bargained ...
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... Doctor Bronson had telegraphed to the Hotel du Nil to send a carriage and a guide to meet his party at the station ... Doctor's example , and thus save themselves a struggle with the unruly crowd and a vast amount of annoyance . The ...
... Doctor Bronson had telegraphed to the Hotel du Nil to send a carriage and a guide to meet his party at the station ... Doctor's example , and thus save themselves a struggle with the unruly crowd and a vast amount of annoyance . The ...
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... Doctor Bronson says the peddlers on the streets have a curious way of calling out their wares , quite unlike that of the same class in other countries . For instance , the water - carrier has a goat - skin on his back filled with water ...
... Doctor Bronson says the peddlers on the streets have a curious way of calling out their wares , quite unlike that of the same class in other countries . For instance , the water - carrier has a goat - skin on his back filled with water ...
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... Doctor Bronson and his young friends continued their excursion in the direction of the bazaars , which both the boys ... Doctor supplemented what they already knew by an ex- planation of the differ- ences between Oriental and Occidental ...
... Doctor Bronson and his young friends continued their excursion in the direction of the bazaars , which both the boys ... Doctor supplemented what they already knew by an ex- planation of the differ- ences between Oriental and Occidental ...
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ancient Egypt ancient Egyptians Arabs ascended backsheesh Banias bank bath bazaars Bedouins boat boys building built Cairo called camels Canal carried cataract centuries Christian church Cloth covered dahabeeah Damascus Dead Sea desert Doctor Bronson says donkeys dragoman dynasty Frank and Fred friends Gate Girgeh Greek hills Holy Land horses hundred inhabitants interesting Jaffa Jerusalem Jordan journey Karnak Kedesh King lake looked Luxor Mar Saba miles modern Mohammed monks Moslem mosque Mount Mount of Olives Mount Tabor mountains mummy Nabulus natives Nile Oriental Palestine party passed picture pilgrims plain pyramids Rameses Rameses II Ramleh Red Sea ride river road rock ruins Sakkara sand scene sculptures seen shadoof side Sioot sometimes soon Sphinx spot steamer stone streets Suez 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.