To Bagdad and BackCentury Company, 1928 - 298 páginas |
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... SUDAN XVIII A VISIT WITH SIX AFRICAN SHEIKS 8 18 23 89 49 69 81 • 95 · • 107 119 . 185 145 • 157 169 • 179 • 191 . 205 . 217 XIX IN KHARTOUM - THE KEY CITY OF THE SUDAN . XX ON THE RIM OF EQUATORIAL AFRICA XXI 235 • 249 AFTER A GLIMPSE ...
... SUDAN XVIII A VISIT WITH SIX AFRICAN SHEIKS 8 18 23 89 49 69 81 • 95 · • 107 119 . 185 145 • 157 169 • 179 • 191 . 205 . 217 XIX IN KHARTOUM - THE KEY CITY OF THE SUDAN . XX ON THE RIM OF EQUATORIAL AFRICA XXI 235 • 249 AFTER A GLIMPSE ...
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... , the home of happy mortals , but now a refuge for stray tramps and curious denizens of the wilderness . View of Bagdad from Bab - al - muadhdham . 8 TO BAGDAD AND BACK ENTERING THE EMPIRE OF THE SUDAN A VISIT WITH SIX AFRICAN SHEIKS.
... , the home of happy mortals , but now a refuge for stray tramps and curious denizens of the wilderness . View of Bagdad from Bab - al - muadhdham . 8 TO BAGDAD AND BACK ENTERING THE EMPIRE OF THE SUDAN A VISIT WITH SIX AFRICAN SHEIKS.
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... the rivers at Bussorah , where lived Sinbad , the Sailor , and where the first cotton fields in history were cultivated . As I entered the building a crowd gathered to gaze at the lone American in his Sudan helmet , who [ 23 ]
... the rivers at Bussorah , where lived Sinbad , the Sailor , and where the first cotton fields in history were cultivated . As I entered the building a crowd gathered to gaze at the lone American in his Sudan helmet , who [ 23 ]
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... Sudan , was being given a farewell " ancient and honorable " dinner , which I attended . He had just completed his work of pre- paring a constitution which is now awaiting the final confirmation of the newly - created Iraq parliament ...
... Sudan , was being given a farewell " ancient and honorable " dinner , which I attended . He had just completed his work of pre- paring a constitution which is now awaiting the final confirmation of the newly - created Iraq parliament ...
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... Sudan , was assassinated and Britain retaliated by demanding an indemnity of two and one - half millions . News- paper readers all over the world were astounded at the rapidity with which the payment was made . Less than a week had ...
... Sudan , was assassinated and Britain retaliated by demanding an indemnity of two and one - half millions . News- paper readers all over the world were astounded at the rapidity with which the payment was made . Less than a week had ...
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Africa American ancient Arabian Nights Arabic Bagdad baksheesh banks began Beirut Bethlehem blue Blue Nile boys British Cairo called camel caravans centuries Chaldea CHAPTER Christ Christian civilization color consul Damascus declared desert distance donkeys dreams dust East Egypt Egyptian England English eyes feel feet gazed glory hand Holy Land hour human hundred Iraq Jeff Jerusalem Jews Khartoum King live looked Mesopotamia miles millions Mohammed Mohammedan morning Moslem mosque nation native never Nile o'clock Omar Khayyám Omdurman once Orient palace Palestine Pasha passed Persia picture pyramids race railroad region reminded river Rubáiyát of Omar ruins sand scene seemed sheik Shullas Siddik Esee smiled Sowash stars stood story streets Sudan Sudanese Syrian Syrian Desert Temple Thou thought thousand Tigris tiny tion told tomb tower trees valley visited Wady Halfa walls women wonder Zaghloul
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Página 148 - Into this Universe, and Why not knowing Nor Whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing; And out of it, as Wind along the Waste, I know not Whither, willy-nilly blowing.
Página 16 - Awake! for morning in the bowl of night Has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight: And lo! the hunter of the east has caught The sultan's turret in a noose of light.
Página 98 - I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
Página 296 - Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane, The Moon of Heav'n is rising once again: How oft hereafter rising shall she look Through this same Garden after me - in vain!
Página 111 - Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust, and under Dust, to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and — sans End!
Página 296 - Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
Página 84 - And those who husbanded the Golden grain, And those who flung it to the winds like Rain, Alike to no such aureate Earth are turn'd As, buried once, Men want dug up again.
Página 136 - Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about : but evermore Came out by the same door where in I went...
Página 250 - Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And who with Eden didst devise the Snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blacken'd, Man's Forgiveness give — and take ! KUZA-NAMA LIX Listen again.
Página 84 - They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep ; And Bahrain, that great Hunter — the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, and he lies fast asleep.