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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... Feet . 328 190 72 26 37 " The scenery on the Canal is not particularly interesting , as one soon gets tired of looking at the desert , with its apparently endless stretch of sand . At Ismailia and Kantara there has been an attempt at ...
... Feet . 328 190 72 26 37 " The scenery on the Canal is not particularly interesting , as one soon gets tired of looking at the desert , with its apparently endless stretch of sand . At Ismailia and Kantara there has been an attempt at ...
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... feet by the shadoof . If a higher elevation is needed , a second and even a third or a fourth may be used ; on the upper part of the Nile I have seen half a dozen of them in operation on a series of steps , one above the other . " You ...
... feet by the shadoof . If a higher elevation is needed , a second and even a third or a fourth may be used ; on the upper part of the Nile I have seen half a dozen of them in operation on a series of steps , one above the other . " You ...
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... feet by this process , the ox or mule walking patiently for hours , until it was his turn to be relieved . " While the Doctor was talking the train passed a sakkieh , which was being turned by a pair of oxen driven by a small boy . The ...
... feet by this process , the ox or mule walking patiently for hours , until it was his turn to be relieved . " While the Doctor was talking the train passed a sakkieh , which was being turned by a pair of oxen driven by a small boy . The ...
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... feet in height . In a little while the attention of the youths was drawn to the minarets of the Mosque of Mohammed Ali and the high walls of the Cita- del , on the summit of the hill that overlooks and commands the city of Cairo . Their ...
... feet in height . In a little while the attention of the youths was drawn to the minarets of the Mosque of Mohammed Ali and the high walls of the Cita- del , on the summit of the hill that overlooks and commands the city of Cairo . Their ...
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... feet in the stirrups when he goes down , you can't help being thrown over the animal's head ; but if you ride as the guide does , your feet come on the ground when the donkey falls , and you walk grace- fully forward a few steps till ...
... feet in the stirrups when he goes down , you can't help being thrown over the animal's head ; but if you ride as the guide does , your feet come on the ground when the donkey falls , and you walk grace- fully forward a few steps till ...
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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.