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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... wanted . The guide explained that they were strangers who wished to see the place , and he accompanied the explanation with a small backsheesh . The khanjy said they might remain as long as they liked ; but they had seen all there was ...
... wanted . The guide explained that they were strangers who wished to see the place , and he accompanied the explanation with a small backsheesh . The khanjy said they might remain as long as they liked ; but they had seen all there was ...
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... wanted to buy something for his sister and Miss Effie , but was restrained by the Doctor , who advised him to postpone his purchases till he was better acquainted with the ways of dealing with the jewellers . We may as well record at ...
... wanted to buy something for his sister and Miss Effie , but was restrained by the Doctor , who advised him to postpone his purchases till he was better acquainted with the ways of dealing with the jewellers . We may as well record at ...
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... ' " Strangers were occasionally tricked in this way , and gave him his price without question , if they wanted the article ; but those who had A SLOW NEGOTIATION . 73 been a week or two 72 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND .
... ' " Strangers were occasionally tricked in this way , and gave him his price without question , if they wanted the article ; but those who had A SLOW NEGOTIATION . 73 been a week or two 72 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND .
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... wanted , and Champollion found it in the Rosetta Stone . " The inscription was in three lan- guages , one of them being Greek , and the other two the hieroglyphic and demotic , or common language of the ancient Egyptians . The Greek in ...
... wanted , and Champollion found it in the Rosetta Stone . " The inscription was in three lan- guages , one of them being Greek , and the other two the hieroglyphic and demotic , or common language of the ancient Egyptians . The Greek in ...
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... wanted . We will let the youths tell the story of their visit to the pyramids : " When we reached the stone platform at the base of the pyramids the driver unharnessed his horses and removed the pole from his car- riage . The Arabs ...
... wanted . We will let the youths tell the story of their visit to the pyramids : " When we reached the stone platform at the base of the pyramids the driver unharnessed his horses and removed the pole from his car- riage . The Arabs ...
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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.