Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 1824, 1825, 1826, and 1827, Volume 2H. Colburn, 1829 - Egypt |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 31
Page 25
... Turks look upon these birds as sacred ; and some religious people make a merit of feeding them daily in Cairo . They certainly are extremely useful in removing some portion of the carrion which infects the atmosphere of all Egyptian ...
... Turks look upon these birds as sacred ; and some religious people make a merit of feeding them daily in Cairo . They certainly are extremely useful in removing some portion of the carrion which infects the atmosphere of all Egyptian ...
Page 37
... Turk can bestow , and asked me a thou- sand questions about the usages and manners of the Franks ; he was the only Turk I ever met with who seemed totally devoid of fanaticism . Before I left him , he presented me with a letter , which ...
... Turk can bestow , and asked me a thou- sand questions about the usages and manners of the Franks ; he was the only Turk I ever met with who seemed totally devoid of fanaticism . Before I left him , he presented me with a letter , which ...
Page 39
... Turks are ; a soldier took deliberate aim at me , with his pistol , at a very fair distance , not exceeding twenty paces , and yet he missed me , the ball passed through the sail of our boat . The only reason for this shot , was my ...
... Turks are ; a soldier took deliberate aim at me , with his pistol , at a very fair distance , not exceeding twenty paces , and yet he missed me , the ball passed through the sail of our boat . The only reason for this shot , was my ...
Page 41
... , but of the person who wrote the label on the medicine ) , the corrosive ointment of nitrate of mercury had been employed instead of the simple unction . Turks and Arabs 42 CASE OF CONSUMPTION . take a great deal of.
... , but of the person who wrote the label on the medicine ) , the corrosive ointment of nitrate of mercury had been employed instead of the simple unction . Turks and Arabs 42 CASE OF CONSUMPTION . take a great deal of.
Page 47
... Turks , to rebuild the altar ; if we would only give him twenty dollars it would be some- thing towards the support of religion . " Listen to me , father , " said I to him , " you shall not have twenty paras from us ; for what security ...
... Turks , to rebuild the altar ; if we would only give him twenty dollars it would be some- thing towards the support of religion . " Listen to me , father , " said I to him , " you shall not have twenty paras from us ; for what security ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Alexandria Allah ancient animal Arabs arrival Assouan beauty Bedouin believe Bishop boat body Cairo called Casheff CASIDA Christian church colocynth convent Coptic Copts CRANIOLOGY crocodile Damietta Dead Sea dear Sir Desert ditto divine EDFOU Egyptian Egyptian vulture embalming endeavoured English eyes feet five four give Gourna Greek hakkim half hand harem head Hebrew Herodotus honour hundred hyenas Israelites Jerusalem Jews journey Lady H Ladyship lake LAMJA Levantine look magician Menzalè miles monks mountains mummy never night Nile Nubian observed opinion Osiris Pacha passage perhaps piastres pistol poison priests R. R. M. LETTER Red Sea religion remain ruins sacred Salehie Salt sand says seen sepulchre serpent servant Sheik shore Siout splendid Suez Surur Syria temple Thebes thee thing thou thousand Tiberias tion tomb took traveller Turk Turkish Upper Egypt village walls women word Zoan
Popular passages
Page 182 - Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
Page 216 - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Page 301 - And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee : blessed art thou among women.
Page 182 - And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened ; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry...
Page 311 - Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
Page 300 - There appeared in these our days a man of great virtue, named Jesus Christ, who is yet living amongst us, and of the Gentiles is accepted for a Prophet of truth, but his own disciples call him the Son of God.
Page 248 - ... rumbling about my bed ; but I regarded him nothing at all. When afterwards I began to slumber, then he kept such a racket and rumbling upon the chamber stairs, as if many emptie hogsheads and barrels had been tumbled down...
Page 290 - There shall not be found among you any one that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Page 213 - Suez, as Niebuhr, with good reason, conjectures. There is no other road of three days' march, in the way from Suez towards Sinai ; nor is there any other well absolutely bitter on the whole of this coast, as far as Ras Mohammed [the extreme southern point of the peninsula].
Page 356 - Halley's observations on evaporation ; observations admitted by Shaw, though he calculates that the Jordan daily discharges into the Dead Sea six millions and ninety thousand tons of water, exclusively of the Arnon and seven other streams. Several travellers, and, among others, Troilo and d'Arvieux, assert that they remarked fragments of walls and palaces in the Dead Sea.