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... Tatar , Mustapha : ' Methley's ' servant , Steel , in his pantry jacket ' , leads the rearguard with Mysseri , and Methley ' himself in a broad - brimmed hat , with Kinglake , invisible but for a pipe and a boot , brings up the rear ...
... Tatar , Mustapha : ' Methley's ' servant , Steel , in his pantry jacket ' , leads the rearguard with Mysseri , and Methley ' himself in a broad - brimmed hat , with Kinglake , invisible but for a pipe and a boot , brings up the rear ...
Page 18
... Tatar , the mounted Suridgees , and the baggage - horses altogether made up a strong cavalcade . The accomplished Mysseri , of whom you have heard me speak so often , and who served me so faithfully throughout my Oriental journeys ...
... Tatar , the mounted Suridgees , and the baggage - horses altogether made up a strong cavalcade . The accomplished Mysseri , of whom you have heard me speak so often , and who served me so faithfully throughout my Oriental journeys ...
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... Tatar ran once ( it was in order to pick up a partridge that Methley had winged with a pistol- shot ) , and the attempt was one of the funniest mis- directions of human energy that wondering man ever saw . But put him in his stirrups ...
... Tatar ran once ( it was in order to pick up a partridge that Methley had winged with a pistol- shot ) , and the attempt was one of the funniest mis- directions of human energy that wondering man ever saw . But put him in his stirrups ...
Page 20
... Tatar , commanding the forces ' , arrived ; he came sleek and fresh from the bath ( for so is the custom of the Otto- mans when they start upon a journey ) , and was care- fully accoutred at every point . From his thigh to his throat he ...
... Tatar , commanding the forces ' , arrived ; he came sleek and fresh from the bath ( for so is the custom of the Otto- mans when they start upon a journey ) , and was care- fully accoutred at every point . From his thigh to his throat he ...
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... Tatar , who towered so loftily over the scraggy little beast that carried him . In taking thought for the East , whilst in England , I had made one capital hit which you must not forget - I had brought with me a pair of common spurs ...
... Tatar , who towered so loftily over the scraggy little beast that carried him . In taking thought for the East , whilst in England , I had made one capital hit which you must not forget - I had brought with me a pair of common spurs ...
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