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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... reached the protection of the seaport . " " What would have happened if he had been found out ? " Frank inquired . " The mob of fanatical Moslems would have killed him , " was the reply . " They would have considered it an insult to ...
... reached the protection of the seaport . " " What would have happened if he had been found out ? " Frank inquired . " The mob of fanatical Moslems would have killed him , " was the reply . " They would have considered it an insult to ...
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... reached its bank a large steamer was just entering on its way to the Mediterranean . Frank observed that she was moving very slowly , and asked the Doctor why she did not put on full steam and go ahead . " That would be against the ...
... reached its bank a large steamer was just entering on its way to the Mediterranean . Frank observed that she was moving very slowly , and asked the Doctor why she did not put on full steam and go ahead . " That would be against the ...
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... reaching them is by a sail or row boat to the landing place , about two miles from the oasis . Since the opening of the fresh - water canal in 1863 this business of supplying the city has ceased , and the water is principally used for ...
... reaching them is by a sail or row boat to the landing place , about two miles from the oasis . Since the opening of the fresh - water canal in 1863 this business of supplying the city has ceased , and the water is principally used for ...
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... reached by a small ladder , and his hearers stood below him or squatted on the floor . What he said was unintelligible to our friends , as he was speaking in Arabic , which was to them an unknown tongue . The audience was apparently ...
... reached by a small ladder , and his hearers stood below him or squatted on the floor . What he said was unintelligible to our friends , as he was speaking in Arabic , which was to them an unknown tongue . The audience was apparently ...
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... reached in 1863 , and at the same time they laid a line of iron pipes from Ismailia to Port Said , on the Mediterranean . It would have been impossible to make and maintain the Maritime Canal without a supply of fresh - water , and thus ...
... reached in 1863 , and at the same time they laid a line of iron pipes from Ismailia to Port Said , on the Mediterranean . It would have been impossible to make and maintain the Maritime Canal without a supply of fresh - water , and thus ...
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ancient Egypt ancient Egyptians Arabs ascended backsheesh Banias bank bath bazaars Bedouins boat boys building built Cairo called camels Canal carried cataract centuries Christian church Cloth covered dahabeeah Damascus Dead Sea desert Doctor Bronson says donkeys dragoman dynasty Frank and Fred friends Gate Girgeh Greek hills Holy Land horses hundred inhabitants interesting Jaffa Jerusalem Jordan journey Karnak Kedesh King lake looked Luxor Mar Saba miles modern Mohammed monks Moslem mosque Mount Mount of Olives Mount Tabor mountains mummy Nabulus natives Nile Oriental Palestine party passed picture pilgrims plain pyramids Rameses Rameses II Ramleh Red Sea ride river road rock ruins Sakkara sand scene sculptures seen shadoof side Sioot sometimes soon Sphinx spot steamer stone streets Suez 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.