Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 1824, 1825, 1826, and 1827, Volume 2H. Colburn, 1829 - Egypt |
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... months ago . We rewarded the Reis for his courage with a present of two dollars , and gave a few piastres to the Arabs who assisted us . At Siout , which is the capital of the province , we stopped two days . I was desirous of getting 8 ...
... months ago . We rewarded the Reis for his courage with a present of two dollars , and gave a few piastres to the Arabs who assisted us . At Siout , which is the capital of the province , we stopped two days . I was desirous of getting 8 ...
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... months to bring the eggs to maturity ; and when they are deposited , they are about the size of those of a small goose . Our boatmen were constantly in the river drag- ging the boat , and in those parts where the crocodiles abound most ...
... months to bring the eggs to maturity ; and when they are deposited , they are about the size of those of a small goose . Our boatmen were constantly in the river drag- ging the boat , and in those parts where the crocodiles abound most ...
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... months , another two months , and several which I gave away , after keeping them ten days or a fortnight . Of all the irascible little animals in the world , there are none so choleric as the chameleon . I trained two large ones to ...
... months , another two months , and several which I gave away , after keeping them ten days or a fortnight . Of all the irascible little animals in the world , there are none so choleric as the chameleon . I trained two large ones to ...
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... months , deposited thirteen eggs in a corner of the room ; each was about the size of a large coriander seed . The animal never sat on them : I took them away to try the effects of the sun , but from that period she declined daily in ...
... months , deposited thirteen eggs in a corner of the room ; each was about the size of a large coriander seed . The animal never sat on them : I took them away to try the effects of the sun , but from that period she declined daily in ...
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... months . A man slept in the magazine all this time , and had no apprehension of these ravenous animals . The fact is , I believe , that the hyena never attacks a man , notwithstand- ing what Bruce says , of the Desert being covered with ...
... months . A man slept in the magazine all this time , and had no apprehension of these ravenous animals . The fact is , I believe , that the hyena never attacks a man , notwithstand- ing what Bruce says , of the Desert being covered with ...
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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 314 - So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.
Page 221 - This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating : an omer for every man according to the number of your persons, take ye every man for them which are in his tents.
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 31 - ... by them to a great extent. 447. The ravages of the Locust are often adverted to in the Bible, and the descriptions there given correspond with those of modern travelers. They are spoken of as a " great army," and it is said that " the land before them is as the Garden of Eden, and behind them a desolate wilderness" — a result often witnessed at the present day.
Page 213 - In moving with a whole nation, the march may well be supposed to have occupied three days; and the bitter well at Marah, which was sweetened by Moses, corresponds exactly with that of Howara. This is the usual route to Mount Sinai; and was probably, therefore, that which the Israelites took on their escape from Egypt ; provided it be admitted that they crossed the sea near Suez, as Niebuhr, with good reason, conjectures. There is no other road of three days...
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...