An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq. Into Abyssinia, to Discover the Source of the Nile: Abridged from the Original WorkH.D. Symonds, Paternoster-Row., 1814 - 373 sidor |
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... Michael- -Tecla Haimanout II . his Character and prudent Behaviour --- воок V. TRANSACTIONS at Mafuah - Directions to Tra- vellers for preferving their Health - Diseases , Trade , & c . of Mafuah- -Conferences with the Naybe - Journey ...
... Michael- -Tecla Haimanout II . his Character and prudent Behaviour --- воок V. TRANSACTIONS at Mafuah - Directions to Tra- vellers for preferving their Health - Diseases , Trade , & c . of Mafuah- -Conferences with the Naybe - Journey ...
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... Michael- Mr. Bruce retires to Emfras - Defcription of Gon- dar , Emfras , and Lake Tzana - Mr . Bruce vifits the great Cataract of Alata - Paffes the Nile- Alarm on approaching the Army - Joins the King- King's Army retreats towards ...
... Michael- Mr. Bruce retires to Emfras - Defcription of Gon- dar , Emfras , and Lake Tzana - Mr . Bruce vifits the great Cataract of Alata - Paffes the Nile- Alarm on approaching the Army - Joins the King- King's Army retreats towards ...
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... Michael , interpreted for the reft . Having been inform- ed , that the large tent belonged to an Englishman , they came into it without ceremony . They told Mr. Bruce , that they were a number of neighbours and companions , who had fet ...
... Michael , interpreted for the reft . Having been inform- ed , that the large tent belonged to an Englishman , they came into it without ceremony . They told Mr. Bruce , that they were a number of neighbours and companions , who had fet ...
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... Michael on which day the army takes the field . A fight fo uncommon alarmed all forts of people ; and the prophets , who had kept themselves within very moderate bounds during this whole reign , now thought that it was incumbent upon ...
... Michael on which day the army takes the field . A fight fo uncommon alarmed all forts of people ; and the prophets , who had kept themselves within very moderate bounds during this whole reign , now thought that it was incumbent upon ...
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... Michael , where he arrived yet alive , but died immediately upon being taken from the horfe . Badjerund Ouftas , and fome others of his father's old officers , who had attached themselves to him after his father's death , took the body ...
... Michael , where he arrived yet alive , but died immediately upon being taken from the horfe . Badjerund Ouftas , and fome others of his father's old officers , who had attached themselves to him after his father's death , took the body ...
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An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq. Into Abyssinia ... James Bruce,Samuel Shaw Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1790 |
An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq. Into Abyssinia ... James Bruce Ingen förhandsgranskning - 2018 |
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Sida 218 - 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.
Sida 369 - ... did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds. There the tops often separated from the bodies ; and these, once disjoined, dispersed in the air, and did not appear more.
Sida 320 - Dextrous, too, as the riders are, the elephant sometimes reaches them with his trunk, with which he dashes the horse against the ground, and then sets his feet upon him, till he tears him limb from limb with his proboscis ; *a great many hunters die this way.
Sida 218 - It is infamy for a man to go to market to buy any thing. He cannot carry water or bake bread ; but he must wash the clothes belonging to both sexes, and, in this function, the women cannot help him.
Sida 353 - The inside of her lip she had made black with antimony. Her ears reached down to her shoulders, and had the appearance of wings ; she had in each of them a large ring of gold, somewhat smaller than a man's little finger, and about five inches diameter.
Sida 221 - In the mean time, those within are very much elevated; love lights all its fires, and every thing is permitted with absolute freedom. There is no...
Sida 279 - I ran down the hill, towards the little island of green sods, which was about two hundred yards distant; the whole side of the hill was thick grown over with flowers, the large bulbous roots of which appearing above the surface of the ground, and their skins coming off on treading upon them, occasioned...
Sida 208 - Sierra occupied by the 3d division of infantry. — One division of French infantry arrived at the top of the ridge...
Sida 201 - ... of the heavens. Other countries are not like this, though this was never so bad as it is now. These wretches here are enemies to strangers; if they saw you alone in your own parlour, their first thought would be how to murder you ; though they knew they were to get nothing by it, they would murder you for mere mischief.
Sida 16 - Tyre seems to have been only a concealment of their knowledge of cochineal, as, had they depended upon the fish for their dye, if the whole city of Tyre applied to nothing else but fishing, they would not have coloured twenty yards of cloth in a year.