Notes, During a Visit to Egypt, Nubia, the Oasis, Mount Sinai, and JerusalemJohn Murray, 1823 - 340 sidor |
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Notes, During a Visit to Egypt, Nubia, the Oasis, Mount Sinai, and Jerusalem Sir Frederick Henniker Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1823 |
Notes, During a Visit to Egypt, Nubia, the Oasis, Mount Sinai, and Jerusalem Sir Frederick Henniker Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1823 |
Notes, During a Visit to Egypt, Nubia, the Oasis, Mount Sinai, and Jerusalem Sir Frederick Henniker Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1823 |
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Sida 276 - All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
Sida 190 - He adds, that the surface of the earth in the vicinity of the temple is very remarkable ; it is covered with a lamina of salt and sand mixed, and has the same appearance as if a ploughed field had been flooded over, then frozen, and the water drawn off from under the ice.t This remark suggests a question relative to the origin of these grassy islands in the desert.
Sida 277 - Siloam, by a burial-place at either end, and by the Hill of Calvary ; and the Hill of Calvary is now within the town, so that it was formerly smaller than it is at present. The best view of it is from the Mount of Olives ; it commands the exact shape, and nearly every particular, namely, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Armenian Convent, the Mosque of Omar, St.
Sida 277 - The building itself has a light, pagoda appearance ; the garden in which it stands occupies a considerable part of the city ; and, contrasted with the surrounding desert, is beautiful...
Sida 276 - ... and throughout the whole there is not one symptom of either commerce, comfort, or happiness. Is this the city that men call the Perfection of Beauty, the Joy of the whole Earth...
Sida 100 - I have cast her off." (Burckhardt's "Bedouins," p. 65). Sir F. Henniker in speaking of the difficulty he had in persuading the natives to descend into the crocodile mummy pits, in consequence of some men having lost their lives there, says : " our guides, as if preparing for certain death, took leave of their children ; the father took the turban from his own head, and put it upon that of his son ; or put him in his place, by giving him his shoes,
Sida 68 - An attempt to drill these lawless ragamuffins occasioned the last insurrection — no marching and countermarching, no playing at soldiers ; they, however, suffer themselves to be drawn up in line to listen to the music, if such it may be called, when produced by drums and squeaking Moorish fifes in the hands of Turks ; a number of voices frequently chimed in, and destroyed the monotony ; during this the soldiers were quiet ; so much for the power of even such music over Albanians — the music of...
Sida 44 - ... and every other requisite that Bedouins can offer ; arranged that he should accompany us to his party at Djibbel Romano, and to our boat on the following day for medicine : thus his illness insured our welfare ; —four hours walk, and quite dark, when the assault of dogs warned us of our approach to the habitations of men or Bedouins : a party were seated on the sand round a glimmering fire ; an occasional ray exhibited them to horrible advantage : ten men, black beards, white teeth, half clothed,...
Sida 31 - fantasia" was given to celebrate the circumcision of the village children, who, undergoing the same operation in company, may, if they can, laugh at one another : this event occasions as much rejoicing to the Mohammedan parents as the christening of a son and heir in Christendom ; two drums and two squeaking pipes formed the band ; eight villagers were very awkwardly, but very innocently, handling some long poles, with which they pretended to strike at one another, but gave a minute's notice as...
Sida 289 - ... friends were wounded, or they would certainly have killed me ; they had heard me vote their death, and which we should in all probability have effected, had the janissary, a Turk, understood me. I had spoken to him in Arabic. It was now past mid-day, and burning hot ; I bled profusely ; and two vultures, whose business it is to consume corpses, were hovering over me. I should scarcely have had strength to resist, had they chosen to attack me. In about twenty minutes Nicholai came up ; his only...