Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile: In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, & 1773, Volumen4James Ballantyne, 1804 - 436 páginas |
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... passing him , turned short upon his front , crossing the Nile at Fagitta , and forced him to an en- gagement in the plain country at Maitsha . The battle , though it was obstinately fought by the rebels , ended in a complete victory in ...
... passing him , turned short upon his front , crossing the Nile at Fagitta , and forced him to an en- gagement in the plain country at Maitsha . The battle , though it was obstinately fought by the rebels , ended in a complete victory in ...
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... away , the Shangalla set fire to it , which runs with incredible violence the whole breadth of Africa , passing under the trees , and following the dry grass among the branches with such velocity 32 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER.
... away , the Shangalla set fire to it , which runs with incredible violence the whole breadth of Africa , passing under the trees , and following the dry grass among the branches with such velocity 32 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER.
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... passing near the horns of the moon denotes the coming of an enemy . They have priests , or rather diviners ; but it should seem that these were looked upon as servants of the evil being , rather than of the good THE SOURCE OF THE NILE . 35.
... passing near the horns of the moon denotes the coming of an enemy . They have priests , or rather diviners ; but it should seem that these were looked upon as servants of the evil being , rather than of the good THE SOURCE OF THE NILE . 35.
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... passing at Gondar , a vio- lent alarm had seized all the princes upon the moun- tain of Wechne . They had been treated with severity during Oustas's whole reign . Their revenues had been with - held , or at least not regularly paid ...
... passing at Gondar , a vio- lent alarm had seized all the princes upon the moun- tain of Wechne . They had been treated with severity during Oustas's whole reign . Their revenues had been with - held , or at least not regularly paid ...
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... passing at the present ; people in con- stant habits of dirt and nastiness , naked , or covered with hair ; in short , a collection of monsters , scarcely to be described or conceived , compose an ecclesiasti- cal assembly in Abyssinia ...
... passing at the present ; people in con- stant habits of dirt and nastiness , naked , or covered with hair ; in short , a collection of monsters , scarcely to be described or conceived , compose an ecclesiasti- cal assembly in Abyssinia ...
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Abuna Abyssinia Achmet Adowa Agows Amhara appeared Arabia Arabs Arkeeko army arrived Axum Ayto Azage Azazo Bacuffa Baharnagash beasts Begemder Betwudet brother called church command Damot death Dixan Djawi encamped Enderta enemy Eshte Fasil fire Galla Georgis Gibberti Gojam Gondar governor of Tigre Gusho hand head Hezekias horse hyæna Ibaba immediately inhabitants Iteghe Janni Jidda Kasmati king king's kingdom Koscam l'Oul Lasta Mahomet Mahometans Mammo manner Mariam Barea Masuah Metical Metical Aga miles monks morning mountain murder Naybe never night Nile o'clock officers Oustas Ozoro Esther palace passed patakas person plain priests prince province queen Ras Michael reason Red Sea reign returned river says seemed seen Sennaar sent servants Shangalla shewed side soldiers soon Suhul Tacazze Taranta Tecla Haimanout teff tent thing throne Tigre tion town trees troops village violent Waragna Wechne Welleta Yasine Yasous
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Página 462 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Página 391 - I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn: 5 Lift not up your horn on high : speak not with a stiff neck.
Página 313 - He appears, by his modest and unaffected narration, to have described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears; and his cataracts fall from the rock without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants.
Página 462 - Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Página 434 - Sierra occupied by the 3d division of infantry. — One division of French infantry arrived at the top of the ridge...
Página 464 - Saul caused roll to him a great stone, and ordered those that killed their oxen to cut their throats upon that stone. This was the only lawful way of killing animals for food ; the tying of the ox and throwing it upon the ground was not permitted as equivalent. The Israelites did probably in that case as the...
Página 467 - ... down his ribs, and so on to the buttock, ^cutting the skin wherever it hinders them commodiously to strip the poor animal bare. All the flesh on the buttocks is then cut off, and in solid square pieces, without bones, or much effusion of blood ; and the prodigious noise the animal makes is a signal for the company to sit down to table.
Página 391 - Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.
Página 361 - to be the great reservoir from whence arise most of the rivers that water this part of Abyssinia. A multitude of streams issue from the very summit in all directions; the springs boil out from the earth in large quantities, capable of turning a mill. They plough, sow, and reap here at all seasons ; and the husbandman must blame his own indolence, and not the soil, if he has not three harvests. We saw in one place people busy cutting down wheat ; immediately next to it others at the plough, and the...
Página 228 - I lay down, then, as a positive rule of health, that the warmest dishes the natives delight in, are the most wholesome strangers can use in the putrid climates of the Lower Arabia, Abyssinia, Sennaar, and Egypt itself; and that spirits, and all fermented liquors, should be regarded as...