 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1857 - 608 sidor
...different design, unlike anything we had ever seen before, and the sides were covered with hieroglyphies With an interest perhaps stronger than we had ever felt in wandering among the ruins of Kgypt, we followed our guide, who, sometimes missing his way, with a constant and vigorous use of his... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1857 - 540 sidor
...different design, unlike any thing we had ever seen before, and the sidos were covered with hieroglyphies With an interest perhaps stronger than we had ever felt in wandering over the ruins of Egypt, we followed our guide, who, sometimes missing his way, with a constant and... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1902 - 436 sidor
...design, unlike anything we had ever seen before, and the sides were covered with hieroglyphics. . . . With an interest perhaps stronger than we had ever...constant and vigorous use of his machete, conducted us thiough the thick forest, among half-buried fragments, to fourteen monuments of the same character... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - 578 sidor
...emblematical devices, which he called an altar. The sight of this monument put at rest at once and for ever, in our minds, all uncertainty in regard to the character...guide, who, sometimes missing his way, with a constant use of his machete conducted us through the thick forest, among half-buried fragments, to fourteen... | |
 | Robert Silverberg - 1997 - 420 sidor
...of stone, also sculptured with figures and emblematical devices, which he called an altar. The sight of this unexpected monument put at rest at once and...machete, conducted us through the thick forest, among half-burned fragments, to fourteen monuments of the same character and appearance, some with more elegant... | |
 | Brian Fagan - 2006 - 318 sidor
...moved to profound eloquence in one of the most memorable pieces of all archaeological travel writing: With an interest perhaps stronger than we had ever...thick forest, among half-buried fragments, to fourteen more monuments of the same character and appearance, some with more elegant designs, and some in workmanship... | |
 | Benjamin Nicholas Martin - 1875 - 542 sidor
...504.) From the " Travels in Central America." 269* DISCOVERY OF A RUINED CITY IN THE WOODS. THE sight of this unexpected monument put at rest, at once and...use of his machete, conducted us through the thick furest, among half-buried fragments, to fourteen monuments of the same character and appearance, some... | |
 | S. Warrand - 1842 - 626 sidor
...emblematical devices, which he called an altar. The sight of this monument put at rest at once and for ever, in our minds, all uncertainty in regard to the character...guide, who, sometimes missing his way, with a constant use of his machete conducted us through the thick forest, among half-buried fragments, to fourteen... | |
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... historical records, that the people who once occupied the Continent of America were not savages. With an interest perhaps stronger than we had ever felt in wandering among the ruins of Egypt, we followed our guide, who, sometimes missing his way,... 
