An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq. Into Abyssinia, to Discover the Source of the Nile: Abridged from the Original Work |
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... said Mimf had stood , a large city , the capital of all Egypt . All this was ex- ecuted with great fuccefs . Early in the morning the Shekh of the Howadat had paffed at Miniel , where there is a ferry , the Nile being very deep , and ...
... said Mimf had stood , a large city , the capital of all Egypt . All this was ex- ecuted with great fuccefs . Early in the morning the Shekh of the Howadat had paffed at Miniel , where there is a ferry , the Nile being very deep , and ...
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... said , from the carriage of crude materials , the mould- ing , making , and fending them to market , to Cairo and to different places in the Delta , to afford occupation to two thousand men . About two o'clock in the afternoon , they ...
... said , from the carriage of crude materials , the mould- ing , making , and fending them to market , to Cairo and to different places in the Delta , to afford occupation to two thousand men . About two o'clock in the afternoon , they ...
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... said that the town was compofed of very bad ' Turks , very bad Moors , and very bad Chriftians ; that feveral devils had been feen among them lately , who had been discovered by being better and quieter than the reft . The Nubian ...
... said that the town was compofed of very bad ' Turks , very bad Moors , and very bad Chriftians ; that feveral devils had been feen among them lately , who had been discovered by being better and quieter than the reft . The Nubian ...
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... said , with more appearance of probability , that this temple was built by Seftris , in his voyage to Arabia Felix , and that he was worshipped there under the name of Ofiris . This tower , and idol , being held in great veneration by ...
... said , with more appearance of probability , that this temple was built by Seftris , in his voyage to Arabia Felix , and that he was worshipped there under the name of Ofiris . This tower , and idol , being held in great veneration by ...
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... said , was his duty , and denying that he was accountable to any man on earth for the marks of affection which he fhewed to his mother . Bæda Mariam , confidering his fon's justification as a reproach made to himself for cruelty ...
... said , was his duty , and denying that he was accountable to any man on earth for the marks of affection which he fhewed to his mother . Bæda Mariam , confidering his fon's justification as a reproach made to himself for cruelty ...
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Page 218 - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 369 - ... did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds. There the tops often separated from the bodies ; and these, once disjoined, dispersed in the air, and did not appear more.
Page 320 - Dextrous, too, as the riders are, the elephant sometimes reaches them with his trunk, with which he dashes the horse against the ground, and then sets his feet upon him, till he tears him limb from limb with his proboscis ; *a great many hunters die this way.
Page 218 - It is infamy for a man to go to market to buy any thing. He cannot carry water or bake bread ; but he must wash the clothes belonging to both sexes, and, in this function, the women cannot help him.
Page 353 - The inside of her lip she had made black with antimony. Her ears reached down to her shoulders, and had the appearance of wings ; she had in each of them a large ring of gold, somewhat smaller than a man's little finger, and about five inches diameter.
Page 221 - In the mean time, those within are very much elevated; love lights all its fires, and every thing is permitted with absolute freedom. There is no...
Page 279 - I ran down the hill, towards the little island of green sods, which was about two hundred yards distant; the whole side of the hill was thick grown over with flowers, the large bulbous roots of which appearing above the surface of the ground, and their skins coming off on treading upon them, occasioned...
Page 208 - Sierra occupied by the 3d division of infantry. — One division of French infantry arrived at the top of the ridge...
Page 201 - ... of the heavens. Other countries are not like this, though this was never so bad as it is now. These wretches here are enemies to strangers; if they saw you alone in your own parlour, their first thought would be how to murder you ; though they knew they were to get nothing by it, they would murder you for mere mischief.
Page 16 - Tyre seems to have been only a concealment of their knowledge of cochineal, as, had they depended upon the fish for their dye, if the whole city of Tyre applied to nothing else but fishing, they would not have coloured twenty yards of cloth in a year.