Fifteen Months' Pilgrimage Through Untrodden Tracts of Khuzistan and Persia, in a Journey from India to England, Volym 1 |
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... ground before he became the sport of chance , and unable to carry into effect his original plans , was thrown into parts of Khuzistan and Irân , which he found had never been trodden by Europeans . This first sug- gested to him the ...
... ground before he became the sport of chance , and unable to carry into effect his original plans , was thrown into parts of Khuzistan and Irân , which he found had never been trodden by Europeans . This first sug- gested to him the ...
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... ground - Castor oil and leeches - General sketch of a new route through the heart of Persia- Reach Tabreez - Kindness of the acting Envoy CHAPTER IX . 125 Tabreez - Costume - Distaste for manufactures - Abbas Meerza's palace - The Ark ...
... ground - Castor oil and leeches - General sketch of a new route through the heart of Persia- Reach Tabreez - Kindness of the acting Envoy CHAPTER IX . 125 Tabreez - Costume - Distaste for manufactures - Abbas Meerza's palace - The Ark ...
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... ground of dispute between the two boat owners was the refusal of the buggara owner to take cargo to Bussorah in addition to passengers , and not his refusal to carry us for the stipulated sum . This added to my vexation , but I resolved ...
... ground of dispute between the two boat owners was the refusal of the buggara owner to take cargo to Bussorah in addition to passengers , and not his refusal to carry us for the stipulated sum . This added to my vexation , but I resolved ...
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... , have long formed a subject of deliberation , and it is hoped that the judicious arrangements of our Indian governments have left little present ground for alarm on that head . But nothing HOW TO BE MET . 53 has yet appeared to.
... , have long formed a subject of deliberation , and it is hoped that the judicious arrangements of our Indian governments have left little present ground for alarm on that head . But nothing HOW TO BE MET . 53 has yet appeared to.
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... the Zobeirs ; the Turkish governor , or motesellim , had retreated with his suite to Mahummarah , where the sheikh had not only afforded him protection , but had , for a pecuniary considera- INTROD in . He had n up Persian ground purt.
... the Zobeirs ; the Turkish governor , or motesellim , had retreated with his suite to Mahummarah , where the sheikh had not only afforded him protection , but had , for a pecuniary considera- INTROD in . He had n up Persian ground purt.
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Abbas Meerza Ahwaz Ali Pacha appeared Arabs Ararat armed Armenian Arzeroum Asia Minor Augea Bagdad Balool banks Bayazeed Bebuhan Begler Beg boat British resident Buctiarian buggala Bushire Bussorah Captain caravan caravanserai Chab Chabeans cloth costume Daoud date trees Dere Mullah dressed English Euphrates European furnished garden gomruck horses houses hundred Imaum India inhabitants Isfahan Joseph Wolff journey Julfa Karoon Khan Khuzistan Koete Koordish Koords Kuzzeem latter Mahummarah Major Taylor Meer ment miles Mobader morning motesellim of Bussorah mountains of Buctiari Mullah Muscat nacquodah night numerous officer Pacha party passed Persian Gulph Pharseigh piastres pistols plague plain possess quarter racter reached rendered RETREAT river route Russian sent sheikh shore soon sorah Tabreez tents thousand Tigris Tigris and Euphrates tion tomauns town trackers travellers Trebisond tribes Turkish Turks vessel village voyage whole wild Zeitoon Zobeirs
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Sida 115 - And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: and he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
Sida 114 - A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shall thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
Sida 103 - Aire, and over every living thing that mooveth upon the Earth. And when the Sea had, as it were, rebelled against rebellious Man, so that all in whose nostrils was the breath of life, and all that was in the dry Land died, yet then did it all that time indure the yoke of Man, in that first of ships the Arke of Noah...
Sida 113 - Of the two separate peaks, called Little and Great Ararat, which are separated by a chasm about seven miles in width, Sir Robert thus speaks ; — ' These inaccessible summits have never been trodden by the foot of man, since the days of Noah...
Sida 59 - ... the antiquities of which she explored with unwearied zeal, and the historical dignity of which she has vindicated in her longest poem. From 1812 to 1815 inclusive, she passed much time at Windsor and its neighbourhood, and formed an intimate acquaintance with all the recesses of its forest. " She knew each lane, and every alley green, Dingle or bushy dell of those old woods, And every bosky bower from side to side.
Sida 129 - What should it be, that thus their faith can bind? The power of Thought — the magic of the Mind! Linked with success, assumed and kept with skill, is That moulds another's weakness to its will; Wields with their hands, but, still to these unknown, Makes even their mightiest deeds appear his own.
Sida 60 - Not vainly did the early Persian make His altar the high places, and the peak Of earth, o'ergazing mountains...
Sida xii - Buggales are large boats. averaging from one to two hundred tons burthen; they have high sterns and pointed prows, one large cabin on a somewhat inclined plane, galleries and stern windows; they usually carry two large latteen sails, and occasionally a jib; are generally built at Cochin and other places on the Malabar coast, and are employed by the Arab and Hindoo merchants on the trade between Arabia, Persia, and the Indian coast.
Sida 58 - To use the language of an elegant modern writer,* " they knew the particular projection of a rock, and the tree of unusual appearance which admonished them to turn now to the right, and now * Godwin. ' • ' to the left; so they were nothing more at a loss than a town-bred man among the streets of the city in which he was born.
Sida 115 - Here we have mountains specified as the place of its haven, not the mountain, as denoting a single summit. Therefore as the holy ship could not rest on both peaks, the...