A Ride in Egypt, from Sioot to Luxor in 1879: With Notes on the Present State and Ancient History of Nile Valley, and Some Account of the Various Ways of Making the Voyage Out and HomeMacmillan and Company, 1879 - 399 sider |
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Side 13
... turned out originally by mother nature . The noise on board is incessant . First , there is the throbbing of the engines . The beating of my own rheumatic heart is nothing to them . Then there are innumerable chains which are dragged ...
... turned out originally by mother nature . The noise on board is incessant . First , there is the throbbing of the engines . The beating of my own rheumatic heart is nothing to them . Then there are innumerable chains which are dragged ...
Side 15
... turned on the Spanish preparations for the famous siege ; they had to watch in silence while their fiery trial was prepared for them before their faces . Nearer we may recog- nise the New Mole , on which , under Rooke , the seamen of ...
... turned on the Spanish preparations for the famous siege ; they had to watch in silence while their fiery trial was prepared for them before their faces . Nearer we may recog- nise the New Mole , on which , under Rooke , the seamen of ...
Side 21
... Turning to the eastward , we looked over a parapet fourteen hundred feet down into the Mediterranean . Steep as is the giddy height , it is still steeper a little further north , where a long sloping bank of loose sand extends almost ...
... Turning to the eastward , we looked over a parapet fourteen hundred feet down into the Mediterranean . Steep as is the giddy height , it is still steeper a little further north , where a long sloping bank of loose sand extends almost ...
Side 22
... turned reluctantly as the signalmen an- nounced the approach of an ironclad from the West , or ran up the ball which tells of the coming of the mail from England . A distant bugle - call catches the ear , and we look down to the parade ...
... turned reluctantly as the signalmen an- nounced the approach of an ironclad from the West , or ran up the ball which tells of the coming of the mail from England . A distant bugle - call catches the ear , and we look down to the parade ...
Side 29
... turned to brown , and the bare rocks and parched hills are clearly seen , there is little to make one wish to land upon it . There is a narrow green strait , over which something like a castle seems to keep guard , and then Comino ...
... turned to brown , and the bare rocks and parched hills are clearly seen , there is little to make one wish to land upon it . There is a narrow green strait , over which something like a castle seems to keep guard , and then Comino ...
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A Ride in Egypt, from Sioot to Luxor in 1879: With Notes on the Present ... William John Loftie Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1879 |
A Ride in Egypt, from Sioot to Luxor in 1879: With Notes on the Present ... William John Loftie Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1879 |
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Abood Amen ancient anteekas Antiquary appeared Arab backsheesh bank beautiful Beni Hassan blue boat Boolak boys building built Cairo called canal Chafra Collector colour Coptic Copts crowd Crown 8vo crude brick dark Dendera dervish donkey dynasty early Edition Egyptian English European evidently eyes face famine fcap feet Fellah Fostat Girgeh Government Greek green Gypt Hassan heaps Horus hour inscription interest inundation Karnac Keneh Khedive kings labour land least look Luxor Malta Maltese Manetho Mariette Maydoom monuments morning mosque Mosta mound mountains native Nefert never night Nile obelisk Osiris passed perhaps piastres Portrait pylon Pyramid ride river Roman round Sakkara scarabs Scot seemed seen Seneferoo shadoof sheykh Shoofoo side sight Sioot Soohag Sphinx stands steamer stone strange temple tent Thebes tion tomb town traveller twelfth dynasty Upper Egypt village voyage walls
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