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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... present . Yafous is reported to have been the most graceful and dexterous horfeman of his time . He diftinguished himself in hunting as much for his addrefs and courage against the beasts , as he had , for a fhort while before , done by ...
... present . Yafous is reported to have been the most graceful and dexterous horfeman of his time . He diftinguished himself in hunting as much for his addrefs and courage against the beasts , as he had , for a fhort while before , done by ...
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... present to understand , that he has fent us prefents by a man whofe name is Du Roule , who has likewife feveral others along with him , and that these people have been arrested at your town of Sennaar . We require of you , therefore ...
... present to understand , that he has fent us prefents by a man whofe name is Du Roule , who has likewife feveral others along with him , and that these people have been arrested at your town of Sennaar . We require of you , therefore ...
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... present in the palace , the dif agreeable task now impofed upon him , à ftranger with- out acquaintance or protection , having the language but imperfectly , and without power or controul among them . He profeffed his intention of doing ...
... present in the palace , the dif agreeable task now impofed upon him , à ftranger with- out acquaintance or protection , having the language but imperfectly , and without power or controul among them . He profeffed his intention of doing ...
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... present , after which he foon reired . Mr. Bruce went afterwards to the king's palace , and met Aylo , and Heikel at the door of the prefence - cham- ber . Tecla Mariam walked before them to the foot of the throne ; after which Mr ...
... present , after which he foon reired . Mr. Bruce went afterwards to the king's palace , and met Aylo , and Heikel at the door of the prefence - cham- ber . Tecla Mariam walked before them to the foot of the throne ; after which Mr ...
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... present , he had told them , that his fpirit had ap- peared fome nights before , and ordered him , in his re- treat , to furprise the mountain of Wechné , and either flay or carry with him to Tigré the princes fequeftered there . Nebrit ...
... present , he had told them , that his fpirit had ap- peared fome nights before , and ordered him , in his re- treat , to furprise the mountain of Wechné , and either flay or carry with him to Tigré the princes fequeftered there . Nebrit ...
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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.