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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... Horse .. 272 The Phalanx of the Sheta . Medinet Aboo . An Egyptian War - boat .. 273 275 276 The Colossi during an Inundation .. 211 One of the Wells of Beersheba , with its Egyptian Priests clad in Leopard - skins .... 212 Rear View of ...
... Horse .. 272 The Phalanx of the Sheta . Medinet Aboo . An Egyptian War - boat .. 273 275 276 The Colossi during an Inundation .. 211 One of the Wells of Beersheba , with its Egyptian Priests clad in Leopard - skins .... 212 Rear View of ...
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... horses , which were changed at stations ten or fifteen miles apart . Water for supplying these stations was carried from the Nile and kept in tanks , and it was a matter of heavy expense to maintain the stations . The omnibus road was ...
... horses , which were changed at stations ten or fifteen miles apart . Water for supplying these stations was carried from the Nile and kept in tanks , and it was a matter of heavy expense to maintain the stations . The omnibus road was ...
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... horse , camel , mule , donkey , or ox . The animal walks in a circle , and turns a horizontal wheel which has cogs connected with an upright wheel , bearing a circle of earthen buckets on its rim . These buckets dip in water as the ...
... horse , camel , mule , donkey , or ox . The animal walks in a circle , and turns a horizontal wheel which has cogs connected with an upright wheel , bearing a circle of earthen buckets on its rim . These buckets dip in water as the ...
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... horses go the syce will keep ahead of them , and he does not seem at all fa- tigued after a run that would take the breath out of an American . They met other carriages ; they met camels and donkeys with riders on their backs , or ...
... horses go the syce will keep ahead of them , and he does not seem at all fa- tigued after a run that would take the breath out of an American . They met other carriages ; they met camels and donkeys with riders on their backs , or ...
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... horse was drinking from a trough in front of it . AN ORIENTAL KHAN . 67 The guide explained that the. INTERIOR OF A CARAVANSARY . GATE - WAY OF A CARAVANSARY . A STREET IN. 66 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND .
... horse was drinking from a trough in front of it . AN ORIENTAL KHAN . 67 The guide explained that the. INTERIOR OF A CARAVANSARY . GATE - WAY OF A CARAVANSARY . A STREET IN. 66 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND .
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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.