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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... passed pleasantly enough on the steamer . The weather was so warm that the passengers preferred the deck to the stifling cabins , and the majority of them slept there every night , and lounged there during the day . The boys passed ...
... passed pleasantly enough on the steamer . The weather was so warm that the passengers preferred the deck to the stifling cabins , and the majority of them slept there every night , and lounged there during the day . The boys passed ...
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... passing Perim led Frank to suggest that the name might be made more descriptive of its character if it were called the Red - hot Sea . The thermometer stood at 101 ° in the cabin , and was only a little lower on deck ; the heat was ...
... passing Perim led Frank to suggest that the name might be made more descriptive of its character if it were called the Red - hot Sea . The thermometer stood at 101 ° in the cabin , and was only a little lower on deck ; the heat was ...
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... passed by Jeddah , the port of Mecca , and from the deck of the steamer the white walls and towers of the town were distinctly ** visible . Frank and Fred would have been delighted to land at Jeddah and make a pilgrimage to Mecca , but ...
... passed by Jeddah , the port of Mecca , and from the deck of the steamer the white walls and towers of the town were distinctly ** visible . Frank and Fred would have been delighted to land at Jeddah and make a pilgrimage to Mecca , but ...
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... passed near the southern end of the Canal , and from the veranda of the hotel they could see steamers passing apparently through the sandy desert , as the position where they stood concealed the water from sight . As soon as they had ...
... passed near the southern end of the Canal , and from the veranda of the hotel they could see steamers passing apparently through the sandy desert , as the position where they stood concealed the water from sight . As soon as they had ...
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... passed in the house , and the party went to bed in good season , as they were to leave at eight o'clock in the morning for Cairo . They were at the station in due time for departure , and found the train was composed of carriages after ...
... passed in the house , and the party went to bed in good season , as they were to leave at eight o'clock in the morning for Cairo . They were at the station in due time for departure , and found the train was composed of carriages after ...
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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.