Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 1824, 1825, 1826, and 1827, Volume 2H. Colburn, 1829 - Egypt |
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Richard Robert Madden. CANAL OF BENESOUEF . 5 crawling over my face at night , or perhaps play- fully folding round my neck while I slept . I ordered every thing to be taken out of the boat ; and what with threats , bribes , and blows ...
Richard Robert Madden. CANAL OF BENESOUEF . 5 crawling over my face at night , or perhaps play- fully folding round my neck while I slept . I ordered every thing to be taken out of the boat ; and what with threats , bribes , and blows ...
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... which was pulled out of its cradle by rats at night , by dragging at the clothes on which it was laid ; and in the morning , the child was found with the tops of the toes and THE JACALL . 23 fingers gnawed in several places .
... which was pulled out of its cradle by rats at night , by dragging at the clothes on which it was laid ; and in the morning , the child was found with the tops of the toes and THE JACALL . 23 fingers gnawed in several places .
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... night seizing on lambs , goats , and poultry , in the Arab tents , and carrying them away . Hyenas have the same instinctive dread of man which dogs have of the hyena . I some- times brought dogs to the door of the magazine , but the ...
... night seizing on lambs , goats , and poultry , in the Arab tents , and carrying them away . Hyenas have the same instinctive dread of man which dogs have of the hyena . I some- times brought dogs to the door of the magazine , but the ...
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... night the bodies which have been superficially interred . I saw one of these in the Jews ' cemetery , in Alexandria , gnawing a human leg . Here in Thebes , in almost every ancient tomb I visit , they dispute the entrance with me ...
... night the bodies which have been superficially interred . I saw one of these in the Jews ' cemetery , in Alexandria , gnawing a human leg . Here in Thebes , in almost every ancient tomb I visit , they dispute the entrance with me ...
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... night , after doing so , some Arab shepherds , who were tending their flock on the river side , imagined our men had a design on their sheep , and actually pretended there was one missing . My companion , hearing this , unfortunately ...
... night , after doing so , some Arab shepherds , who were tending their flock on the river side , imagined our men had a design on their sheep , and actually pretended there was one missing . My companion , hearing this , unfortunately ...
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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.