The Lives of Celebrated Travelers, Opseg 3Harper & Brothers, 1837 |
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Ababde Africa afterward Aleppo amused ancient animals appeared Arabs arrived asses banks Bashkirs beautiful Bedouin beheld Belzoni birds Burckhardt Cairo camels camp canoe caravan Cheliabinsk companions considerable continued danger Denon Desaix desert desirous discovered distance Egypt encamped English escape exceedingly excursion fatigue fear fire French friends Hauran Heber Hejaz honour horse Hottentots ihram imagined immediately inhabitants Jidda journey labours Le Vaillant length Mamelukes manner Mecca ment mind Mohammed Mohammedan morning mountains natives natural never Niebuhr Niger night Nile observed Pallas Park pasha passed persons plain possessed present proceeded prodigious rain reached received Red Sea remained rendered returned river road rocks ruins says scene seems sheïkh shore shortly Siberia soon spot strangers stream Suakin Syria tents Thebes thing tion tomb took town trav traveller traveller's trees Vaillant village visited Volney voyage whole wild woods
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Stranica 44 - Can that Being (thought I) who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in this obscure part of the world, a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures formed after his own image? — surely not! Reflections like these would not allow me to despair. I started up, and disregarding both hunger and fatigue, travelled forwards, assured that relief was at hand ; and I was not disappointed.
Stranica 43 - The influence of religion, however, aided and supported me. I reflected that no human prudence or foresight could possibly have averted my present sufferings. I was indeed a stranger in a strange land, yet I was still under the protecting eye of that Providence, who has condescended to call himself the Stranger's Friend.
Stranica 317 - It appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long conflict, were all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various temples as the only proofs of their former existence.
Stranica 324 - But what a place of rest! Surrounded by bodies, by heaps of mummies in all directions; which, previous to my being accustomed to the sight, impressed me with horror. The blackness of the wall, the...
Stranica 37 - I was weary and dejected, inquired into my situation, which I briefly explained to her ; whereupon, with looks of great compassion, she took up my saddle and bridle, and told me to follow her.
Stranica 57 - ... and unable to keep up the canoe against the current, and no probability of escaping, Mr. Park took hold of one of the white men and jumped into the water ; Martyn did the same, and they were drowned in the stream in attempting to escape.
Stranica 197 - Black Stone " ;' it forms a part of the sharp angle of the building at four or five feet above the ground. It is an irregular oval, about seven inches in diameter, with an undulating surface, composed of about a dozen smaller stones of different sizes and shapes, well joined together with a small quantity of cement, and perfectly...
Stranica 37 - The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
Stranica 37 - About sunset, however, as I was preparing to pass the night in this manner, and had turned my horse loose, that he might graze at liberty, a...
Stranica 234 - ... rolling slowly along, and falling with a rattling noise over one another. Here a vast arched chasm presented itself in the side of the mountain, from which rushed with the velocity of a flood the clear vivid torrent of lava, in perfect fusion, and totally unconnected with any other matter that was not in a state of complete solution, unattended...