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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... also are many curious plants and flow-- ers brought from different countries . On the 30th of June , Mr. Bruce embarked for Cairò . There are wonderful tales told at Alexandria as well as at Cairo , of the danger of paffing over the ...
... also are many curious plants and flow-- ers brought from different countries . On the 30th of June , Mr. Bruce embarked for Cairò . There are wonderful tales told at Alexandria as well as at Cairo , of the danger of paffing over the ...
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... also from the colour and diverfity of the green . On the zoth , early in the morning , they again fet fail and paffed feveral villages , till at length they reached Siout , where the wind turned directly fouth , so they were obliged to ...
... also from the colour and diverfity of the green . On the zoth , early in the morning , they again fet fail and paffed feveral villages , till at length they reached Siout , where the wind turned directly fouth , so they were obliged to ...
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... also no animal but the gazel or antelope , and but a few of them . There are few birds , and those which may be found are generally filent . On the 18th , at feven in the morning , they firft dif covered the mountains , under which lies ...
... also no animal but the gazel or antelope , and but a few of them . There are few birds , and those which may be found are generally filent . On the 18th , at feven in the morning , they firft dif covered the mountains , under which lies ...
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... also fome fears a plank might have been started ; but they faw the advantage of a veffel being fewed , rather than nailed together , as the not only was unhurt , but made very little water . 66 On the 19th of September , at five in the ...
... also fome fears a plank might have been started ; but they faw the advantage of a veffel being fewed , rather than nailed together , as the not only was unhurt , but made very little water . 66 On the 19th of September , at five in the ...
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... also probable , that the firft alphabet was Ethiopic , first founded on hieroglyphics , and afterwards modelled into more current , and lefs laborious figures , for the fake of applying them to the expedition of business . Though Mofes ...
... also probable , that the firft alphabet was Ethiopic , first founded on hieroglyphics , and afterwards modelled into more current , and lefs laborious figures , for the fake of applying them to the expedition of business . Though Mofes ...
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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.