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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... seen what his father had written con- cerning him in the first letters Elias was charged with . Others are mentioned in Elias's letter to the consul , as having been in Abyssinia . He calls them those of the league of Michael and Samuel ...
... seen what his father had written con- cerning him in the first letters Elias was charged with . Others are mentioned in Elias's letter to the consul , as having been in Abyssinia . He calls them those of the league of Michael and Samuel ...
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... seen was done at the instance of M. de Maillet collusively , that the king says was a violation of the law of nations ; and it was this insult , done to Murat his ambassador , that he all along complains of , not that offered to Du ...
... seen was done at the instance of M. de Maillet collusively , that the king says was a violation of the law of nations ; and it was this insult , done to Murat his ambassador , that he all along complains of , not that offered to Du ...
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... seen myself , and been often nearly inclosed in it , and can bear witness , that , at a distance , and by a stranger ignorant of the cause , it would very hardly be distinguished from a river of fire . The Shangalla go all naked ; they ...
... seen myself , and been often nearly inclosed in it , and can bear witness , that , at a distance , and by a stranger ignorant of the cause , it would very hardly be distinguished from a river of fire . The Shangalla go all naked ; they ...
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... seen in the constitution of the Shangalla women , even though they are without fatigue . A woman , upon bearing a child or two , at 10 or 11 years old , sees her breast fall immediately down to near her knees * . Her common manner of ...
... seen in the constitution of the Shangalla women , even though they are without fatigue . A woman , upon bearing a child or two , at 10 or 11 years old , sees her breast fall immediately down to near her knees * . Her common manner of ...
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... seen . Shenuda , son of Welled de l'Oul , played a very considerable part in the revolution that happened in my time ; was of a figure more than ordinary grace- ful ; was brave , and did not want good dispositions ; but these were ...
... seen . Shenuda , son of Welled de l'Oul , played a very considerable part in the revolution that happened in my time ; was of a figure more than ordinary grace- ful ; was brave , and did not want good dispositions ; but these were ...
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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...