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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... hills ... 219 View of Jerusalem from the East . 223 Ground - plan of the Church of the Holy Sep- 220 Plan of Jerusalem ..... 222 The Church of the Holy Sepulchre .. 225 The Holy Sepulchre ... 226 Ancient Arch in Jerusalem . 231 The Via ...
... hills ... 219 View of Jerusalem from the East . 223 Ground - plan of the Church of the Holy Sep- 220 Plan of Jerusalem ..... 222 The Church of the Holy Sepulchre .. 225 The Holy Sepulchre ... 226 Ancient Arch in Jerusalem . 231 The Via ...
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... hills that enclose the sea have a strong tinge of red , especially at the hours of sunset and sunrise , and the coral reefs that stretch in every direction and make navigation dangerous are often of a vermilion tint . " You will see all ...
... hills that enclose the sea have a strong tinge of red , especially at the hours of sunset and sunrise , and the coral reefs that stretch in every direction and make navigation dangerous are often of a vermilion tint . " You will see all ...
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... hills behind the town , and the low slopes of the opposite shore , glistened in the bright sunlight ; but the almost total absence of verd- ure in the landscape rendered the picture the reverse of beautiful . Not a tree nor a blade of ...
... hills behind the town , and the low slopes of the opposite shore , glistened in the bright sunlight ; but the almost total absence of verd- ure in the landscape rendered the picture the reverse of beautiful . Not a tree nor a blade of ...
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... has never been of much importance , commercially or other- wise . The situation in the midst of desert hills , and more especially the SITUATION OF AN OLD CITY . 23 absence of fresh. 22 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND .
... has never been of much importance , commercially or other- wise . The situation in the midst of desert hills , and more especially the SITUATION OF AN OLD CITY . 23 absence of fresh. 22 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND .
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... hill that overlooks and commands the city of Cairo . Their glances turned from pyramids to mosque , and from mosque back again to pyramids , and from the sharp outline of the Mokattam Hills to the glistening sands of the Western Desert ...
... hill that overlooks and commands the city of Cairo . Their glances turned from pyramids to mosque , and from mosque back again to pyramids , and from the sharp outline of the Mokattam Hills to the glistening sands of the Western Desert ...
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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 temple Thebes things thousand 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.