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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... called the youths to his side and told them their destination . " We are going , " said he , " to Egypt , and thence to the Holy Land . The steamer will carry us across the Indian Ocean to the Straits of Bab- el- mandeb , and then ...
... called the youths to his side and told them their destination . " We are going , " said he , " to Egypt , and thence to the Holy Land . The steamer will carry us across the Indian Ocean to the Straits of Bab- el- mandeb , and then ...
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... called an inlet of the Indian Ocean , " said the Doctor , " as it is long and narrow , and has more the characteristics of an inlet than of a sea . It is about fourteen hundred miles long , and varies from twenty to two hundred miles in ...
... called an inlet of the Indian Ocean , " said the Doctor , " as it is long and narrow , and has more the characteristics of an inlet than of a sea . It is about fourteen hundred miles long , and varies from twenty to two hundred miles in ...
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... 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 the Hebrew Scriptures as Yam Suph , the Sea ...
... 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 the Hebrew Scriptures as Yam Suph , the Sea ...
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... called " Mount Sinai in the Wilderness . " With a powerful telescope not a sign of vegetation was anywhere visible . It was late in the forenoon of a pleasant day when the ship came to anchor , as we have described in our opening lines ...
... called " Mount Sinai in the Wilderness . " With a powerful telescope not a sign of vegetation was anywhere visible . It was late in the forenoon of a pleasant day when the ship came to anchor , as we have described in our opening lines ...
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... called Port Ibrahim , capable of con- taining many ships at once . The Canal Company's repair - shops and ware- houses stand on artificial ground , which was made by dredging the sand and piling it into the space between the pier and ...
... called Port Ibrahim , capable of con- taining many ships at once . The Canal Company's repair - shops and ware- houses stand on artificial ground , which was made by dredging the sand and piling it into the space between the pier and ...
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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.