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... unless they were thus copiously supplied both with food and water . This
country , flat as the deserts on which it borders , has fat black earth for its soil . It is
generally about forty miles broad , though in many places broader and narrower .
... unless they were thus copiously supplied both with food and water . This
country , flat as the deserts on which it borders , has fat black earth for its soil . It is
generally about forty miles broad , though in many places broader and narrower .
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... in on every side by active and powerful enemies , who consider them as a
species of wild beasts , and hunt them precisely as they do the elephant and
rhinoceros ; placed in a small territory , where they never are re . moved above
20 miles ...
... in on every side by active and powerful enemies , who consider them as a
species of wild beasts , and hunt them precisely as they do the elephant and
rhinoceros ; placed in a small territory , where they never are re . moved above
20 miles ...
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For the inhabitants of Ras el Feel were used to plow and sow , and did constantly
eat bread ; but the grain was produced ten or fifteen miles off upon the sides of
the mountains of Abyssinia , where every certain number of soldiers had small ...
For the inhabitants of Ras el Feel were used to plow and sow , and did constantly
eat bread ; but the grain was produced ten or fifteen miles off upon the sides of
the mountains of Abyssinia , where every certain number of soldiers had small ...
Sida 48
In the season that did not permit him to be in the field , he bestowed a great deal
of leisure and money this way ; and he was , at this time , busy erecting a
magnificent church to the Nativity , about a mile below Gondar , on the 48
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In the season that did not permit him to be in the field , he bestowed a great deal
of leisure and money this way ; and he was , at this time , busy erecting a
magnificent church to the Nativity , about a mile below Gondar , on the 48
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Nativity , about a mile below Gondar , on the small river Kahha . But the season of
hunting returning before he had finished it , he left it to repair to Bet Malo , a place
in the Kolla , where he had built a hunting - seat , not far distant from the ...
Nativity , about a mile below Gondar , on the small river Kahha . But the season of
hunting returning before he had finished it , he left it to repair to Bet Malo , a place
in the Kolla , where he had built a hunting - seat , not far distant from the ...
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Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile: In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770 ... James Bruce Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1804 |
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile: In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770 ... James Bruce Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1804 |
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile: In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770 ... James Bruce Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1804 |
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Sida 466 - 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 395 - I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn: 5 Lift not up your horn on high : speak not with a stiff neck.
Sida 317 - He appears, by his modest and unaffected narration, to have described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears; and his cataracts fall from the rock without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants.
Sida 466 - Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Sida 438 - Sierra occupied by the 3d division of infantry. — One division of French infantry arrived at the top of the ridge...
Sida 468 - Saul caused roll to him a great stone, and ordered those that killed their oxen to cut their throats upon that stone. This was the only lawful way of killing animals for food ; the tying of the ox and throwing it upon the ground was not permitted as equivalent. The Israelites did probably in that case as the...
Sida 471 - ... down his ribs, and so on to the buttock, ^cutting the skin wherever it hinders them commodiously to strip the poor animal bare. All the flesh on the buttocks is then cut off, and in solid square pieces, without bones, or much effusion of blood ; and the prodigious noise the animal makes is a signal for the company to sit down to table.
Sida 395 - Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.
Sida 365 - to be the great reservoir from whence arise most of the rivers that water this part of Abyssinia. A multitude of streams issue from the very summit in all directions; the springs boil out from the earth in large quantities, capable of turning a mill. They plough, sow, and reap here at all seasons ; and the husbandman must blame his own indolence, and not the soil, if he has not three harvests. We saw in one place people busy cutting down wheat ; immediately next to it others at the plough, and the...
Sida 232 - I lay down, then, as a positive rule of health, that the warmest dishes the natives delight in, are the most wholesome strangers can use in the putrid climates of the Lower Arabia, Abyssinia, Sennaar, and Egypt itself; and that spirits, and all fermented liquors, should be regarded as...
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| Titel | Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile: In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, & 1773 Volym 4 av Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author, James Bruce Volym 4 av Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768-1773, James Bruce Volym 4 av Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile: In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773, James Bruce |
| Författare | James Bruce |
| Utgåva | 2 |
| Utgivare | J. Ballantyne, 1804 |
| Original från | New York Public Library |
| Digitaliserad | 21 aug 2007 |
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