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Términos y frases comunes
abundant Africa Amazon animals Arabs Asia Bailunda bamboo banks beautiful Berber birds British camels canal Cape Colony capital Central centre China Chinese climate coal coast cocoa-nut coffee colour commerce consists contains copper cotton covered desert district east eastern European exported feet high fertile flowers forests fruits gold Gulf Gulf of Guinea harbour hills Himalayas Hindoo houses India inhabitants interior island ivory Kafir Kalahari Desert karroos Khokand Kuen Lun lake Lake Tanganyika land largest LESSON maize miles long Morocco mountains natives navigation Negro Nile numerous ocean Orange Orange River ostrich palms Pará passes peninsula Persia plains plantations plants population port region rice river Sahara salt sand settlements ships shore Siberia side silk slaves slopes soil Soudan South America southern streams streets Suez sugar sugar-cane table-land tobacco town trade trees tropical Turkestan valley vegetation vessels wild winds Zanzibar
Pasajes populares
Página 98 - I did not like at first; but fruits are so scarce, except at particular seasons, that one soon learns to appreciate anything of a fruity nature. Many persons in Europe are under the impression that fruits of delicious flavour abound in the tropical forests, and they will no doubt be surprised to learn that the truly wild fruits of this grand and luxuriant archipelago, the vegetation of which will vie with that of any part of the world, are in almost every island inferior in abundance and quality...
Página 99 - I have never seen in the tropics such brilliant masses of colour as even England can show in her furze-clad commons, her heathery mountain-sides, her glades of wild hyacinths, her fields of poppies, her meadows of buttercups and orchises — carpets of yellow, purple, azureblue, and fiery crimson, which the tropics can rarely exhibit.
Página 152 - ... ground in vivid contrast, and running streams flashing in the sunlight ; whilst in the far distance were mountains of endless and pleasing variety of form, gradually fading away until they blended with the blue of the sky.
Página 44 - It is situated on an island of the same name, which is connected with the coast by a causeway. Its commerce is very extensive ; and It Is the principal packet station. Bombay was part of the wedding portion given to Charles II. with Catherine the Infanta of Portugal. Delhi...
Página 95 - ... great variety of palms, and as to another by calabashes and gourds. Almost all tropical countries produce bamboos, and wherever they are found in abundance, the natives apply them to a variety of uses. Their strength, lightness, smoothness, straightness, roundness, and hollow'ness, the facility and regularity with which they can be split, their many different sizes, the varying length of their joints, the ease with which they can be cut and with which holes can be made through them, their hardness...
Página 98 - Britain. Wild strawberries and raspberries are found in some places, but they are such poor tasteless things as to be hardly worth eating, and there is nothing to compare with our blackberries and whortleberries. The kanary-nut may be considered equal to a hazel-nut, but I have met with nothing else superior to our crabs, our haws, beech-nuts, wild plums, and acorns; fruits which would be highly esteemed by the natives of these islands, and would form an important part of their sustenance.
Página 136 - Pyramidal platform as it was. The smooth casing of part of the top of the Second Pyramid, and the magnificent granite blocks which form the lower stages of the third, serve to show what they must have been all, from top to bottom ; the first and second, brilliant white or yellow limestone, smooth from top to bottom, instead...
Página 23 - They rose in the evening air and shaded the wilderness around. A picture of desolation which wearied, by its utter loneliness, and at the same time appalled by its immensity ; a circle of which the centre was everywhere, and the circumference nowhere. Such were the steppes as I drove through them at nightfall or in the early morn; and where, fatigued by want of sleep, my eye searched eagerly, but in vain, for a station. On arriving at the halting-place, which was about twenty-seven versts from Orsk,...