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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... asked how long it would take them to go from Bom- bay to Suez . " About ten days , " was the reply . " The distance is three thousand miles , in round numbers , and I believe we are not to stop anywhere on the way . " The time was ...
... asked how long it would take them to go from Bom- bay to Suez . " About ten days , " was the reply . " The distance is three thousand miles , in round numbers , and I believe we are not to stop anywhere on the way . " The time was ...
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... asked why the body of water in question was called the Red Sea . The Doctor explained that the origin of the name was unknown , as it had been called the Red Sea since the time of Herodotus and other early writers . It is referred to in ...
... asked why the body of water in question was called the Red Sea . The Doctor explained that the origin of the name was unknown , as it had been called the Red Sea since the time of Herodotus and other early writers . It is referred to in ...
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... asked what could be seen at Mecca , and whether the place was really worth visiting . " As to that , " the Doctor answered , " tastes might differ . Mecca is said to be a well - built city , seventy miles from Jeddah , with a population ...
... asked what could be seen at Mecca , and whether the place was really worth visiting . " As to that , " the Doctor answered , " tastes might differ . Mecca is said to be a well - built city , seventy miles from Jeddah , with a population ...
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... asked how far it was from Mecca to Medina , the place where Mohammed died and was buried . " Medina is about two hundred and fifty miles north of Mecca , " said the Doctor , " and is only a third the. CAPTAIN BURTON IN NATIVE DRESS ...
... asked how far it was from Mecca to Medina , the place where Mohammed died and was buried . " Medina is about two hundred and fifty miles north of Mecca , " said the Doctor , " and is only a third the. CAPTAIN BURTON IN NATIVE DRESS ...
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... asked the Doctor why she did not put on full steam and go ahead . " That would be against the rules of the Canal Company , " was the reply . " If the steamers should go at full speed they would destroy the Canal in a short time ; the ...
... asked the Doctor why she did not put on full steam and go ahead . " That would be against the rules of the Canal Company , " was the reply . " If the steamers should go at full speed they would destroy the Canal in a short time ; the ...
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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.