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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... seen from Below . 154 A Bull - fight .... 110 View on a Sugar Plantation 156 Goddesses of Truth and Justice . 110 Interior of a Sugar - mill .. 158 The Name of Apis , an Egyptian God , in A Secure Point of View .. 159 Hieroglyphics ...
... seen from Below . 154 A Bull - fight .... 110 View on a Sugar Plantation 156 Goddesses of Truth and Justice . 110 Interior of a Sugar - mill .. 158 The Name of Apis , an Egyptian God , in A Secure Point of View .. 159 Hieroglyphics ...
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... seen , and hoped that the story of their wanderings would prove interesting to their school - mates in America , and to other youths of their age . * Soon after entering the Red Sea they passed the island of Perim , a barren stretch of ...
... seen , and hoped that the story of their wanderings would prove interesting to their school - mates in America , and to other youths of their age . * Soon after entering the Red Sea they passed the island of Perim , a barren stretch of ...
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... seen it 110 ° in the cabin of a steamer , and on one occasion , when the simoom was blowing from the desert , it was 132 ° . 1 TEMPERATURE OF THE RED SEA . 17 Steamers going north 16 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND .
... seen it 110 ° in the cabin of a steamer , and on one occasion , when the simoom was blowing from the desert , it was 132 ° . 1 TEMPERATURE OF THE RED SEA . 17 Steamers going north 16 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND .
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... seen at Mecca , and whether the place was really worth visiting . " As to that , " the Doctor answered , " tastes might differ . Mecca is said to be a well - built city , seventy miles from Jeddah , with a population . of about fifty ...
... seen at Mecca , and whether the place was really worth visiting . " As to that , " the Doctor answered , " tastes might differ . Mecca is said to be a well - built city , seventy miles from Jeddah , with a population . of about fifty ...
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... seen is the curtain surrounding it , and even that must be observed through an aperture in a wooden screen . The custodians say that any person who looks on the tomb of the Prophet would be instantly blinded by a flood of holy light ...
... seen is the curtain surrounding it , and even that must be observed through an aperture in a wooden screen . The custodians say that any person who looks on the tomb of the Prophet would be instantly blinded by a flood of holy light ...
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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.