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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... things that may have undergone changes since his last journey in the Levant . In addition to using his own notes and observations , made on the spot , he has consulted many previous and some subsequent travellers , and has examined ...
... things that may have undergone changes since his last journey in the Levant . In addition to using his own notes and observations , made on the spot , he has consulted many previous and some subsequent travellers , and has examined ...
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... Thing of Beauty ... View in the Temple of Edfoo Hagar Silsilis . . . The Foot of the First Cataract The Ship of the Desert ... Bedouin Arabs with their Camel Herds . Camels ( from an Assyrian Sculpture ) . A Bactrian Camel in Good ...
... Thing of Beauty ... View in the Temple of Edfoo Hagar Silsilis . . . The Foot of the First Cataract The Ship of the Desert ... Bedouin Arabs with their Camel Herds . Camels ( from an Assyrian Sculpture ) . A Bactrian Camel in Good ...
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... things as you proceed , " he continued , " and by the time you are at Suez you will have no difficulty in understanding why this body . of water is called the Red Sea . " The boys found it as he had predicted , and the temperature for ...
... things as you proceed , " he continued , " and by the time you are at Suez you will have no difficulty in understanding why this body . of water is called the Red Sea . " The boys found it as he had predicted , and the temperature for ...
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... things around them , and they are less likely to be frightened if anything un- usual happens in their neighborhood . This is particularly the case with the native buffalo and with the mule , and the practice of blindfolding the latter ...
... things around them , and they are less likely to be frightened if anything un- usual happens in their neighborhood . This is particularly the case with the native buffalo and with the mule , and the practice of blindfolding the latter ...
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... thing as a winnowing - machine was practically unknown in Egypt . Attempts have been made to introduce modern implements and machinery for agricultural purposes , but they have generally failed . ANCIENT PROCESS OF TREADING OUT THE CORN ...
... thing as a winnowing - machine was practically unknown in Egypt . Attempts have been made to introduce modern implements and machinery for agricultural purposes , but they have generally failed . ANCIENT PROCESS OF TREADING OUT THE CORN ...
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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.