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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... before the conclusion of the banquet , and the survivor feels a sense of personal injury when ominous sounds , as of a human being in distress , reach him from the neighbouring cabin . Perhaps 6 [ CH . I. ON THE VOYAGE .
... before the conclusion of the banquet , and the survivor feels a sense of personal injury when ominous sounds , as of a human being in distress , reach him from the neighbouring cabin . Perhaps 6 [ CH . I. ON THE VOYAGE .
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... feeling of being subjected to indignity as the rolling rudely shakes me from my seat , or takes my feet from under me . There is something humiliating in running down the deck and staggering up again as if you were very drunk indeed ...
... feeling of being subjected to indignity as the rolling rudely shakes me from my seat , or takes my feet from under me . There is something humiliating in running down the deck and staggering up again as if you were very drunk indeed ...
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... feeling that they may have to bleed in their country's cause , which helps to ennoble them . In moments of fancied seclusion - there is no real seclusion on board — a photograph book is brought out from the recesses of a portmanteau ...
... feeling that they may have to bleed in their country's cause , which helps to ennoble them . In moments of fancied seclusion - there is no real seclusion on board — a photograph book is brought out from the recesses of a portmanteau ...
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... feel ashamed of them though he wipes them away so fast . It is to such young Englishmen that England may have to look in time of need . Such are the minor accessories of life on every voyage . I remember that on this voyage in par ...
... feel ashamed of them though he wipes them away so fast . It is to such young Englishmen that England may have to look in time of need . Such are the minor accessories of life on every voyage . I remember that on this voyage in par ...
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... feel the reality of the difference . There , growing twenty feet high in its native soil , with great green leaves and golden fruit and white blossoms , is a magnificent orange - tree . The orange - tree behind the library at Gibraltar ...
... feel the reality of the difference . There , growing twenty feet high in its native soil , with great green leaves and golden fruit and white blossoms , is a magnificent orange - tree . The orange - tree behind the library at Gibraltar ...
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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 Arab backsheesh bank beautiful Beni Hassan Boolak boys building Cairo called Chafra Collector colour Coptic Copts Crown 8vo crude brick dark Dendera dervishes donkey dynasty early Edition Egyptian England English European evidently eyes face famine fcap feet fellah Fostat Girgeh Government Greek green Gypt Hassan heaps hieroglyphic HISTORY Horus hour Illustrations inscription inundation Ismail Pasha Karnac Keneh Khedive kings labour land least look Luxor Manetho Mariette Maydoom monuments morning mosque mound mountains Museum Nefert never night Nile obelisk Osiris palms passed perhaps piastres Portrait Professor Ptah pylon Pyramid Rameses ride river Roman round Sakkara sand scarabs Scot sculptures seemed seen Seneferoo shadoof sheykh Shoofoo side sight Sioot Soohag Sphinx steamer stone strange temple tent Thebes Thothmes tion tomb town traveller twelfth dynasty Upper Egypt village walls
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