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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... Half a dozen steamers lay at the anchorage , waiting for their turn to pass the 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 ...
... Half a dozen steamers lay at the anchorage , waiting for their turn to pass the 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 ...
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... half a century ago , but at present it is very generally broken down , and the hated infidel may visit the mosques of the principal cities of Egypt and Turkey , provided he pays for the privilege . They returned to the hotel in season ...
... half a century ago , but at present it is very generally broken down , and the hated infidel may visit the mosques of the principal cities of Egypt and Turkey , provided he pays for the privilege . They returned to the hotel in season ...
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... half a million pilgrims went every year . For the remaining fifty - two miles from Zagazig to Cairo the route lay through a fertile country , and only occasional glimpses were afforded of the desert . Boats and barges were moving on the ...
... half a million pilgrims went every year . For the remaining fifty - two miles from Zagazig to Cairo the route lay through a fertile country , and only occasional glimpses were afforded of the desert . Boats and barges were moving on the ...
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... half a dozen of them in operation on a series of steps , one above the other . " You will see representations of the shadoof on the walls of the tem- ples and tombs of Egypt , and the conclusion is certain that the form has not changed ...
... half a dozen of them in operation on a series of steps , one above the other . " You will see representations of the shadoof on the walls of the tem- ples and tombs of Egypt , and the conclusion is certain that the form has not changed ...
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... half enough . Not unfrequently your clothes are torn in the struggle , and if you escape without loss of money or temper you are very fortunate . The railway - station at Cairo is an excellent place to study the charac- ter of the ...
... half enough . Not unfrequently your clothes are torn in the struggle , and if you escape without loss of money or temper you are very fortunate . The railway - station at Cairo is an excellent place to study the charac- ter of the ...
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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.