The Lives of Celebrated Travellers, Opseg 3Harper & Brothers, 1859 |
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able afterward ancient animals appeared Arabs arrived banks beautiful began Burckhardt called carried caused companions completed considerable continued course covered danger departed desire determined directed discovered distance Egypt English entered escape fear fire follow formed fortune French friends hands head Heber horse imagination immediately Italy journey kind knowledge known land learned leave length less live look manner March means mind mountains natives nature never Niebuhr night object observed obtained occasion once Park passed perhaps persons possessed present proceeded reached received remained remarkable rendered respecting river road rocks round ruins says scene seems shore short side sight soon thing thought tion took town traveller trees turned Vaillant various village visited Volney whole wild young
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Stranica 48 - 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 339 - 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 40 - ... a woman, returning from the labours of the field, stopped to observe me, and perceiving / that 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 286 - Right in the middest of that Paradise There stood a stately mount, on whose round top A gloomy grove of mirtle trees did rise...
Stranica 64 - ... threw every thing they had in the canoe into the river, and kept firing; but being overpowered by numbers and fatigue, 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 40 - They lightened their labour by songs, one of which was composed extempore; for I was myself the subject of it. It was sung by one of the young women, the rest joining in a sort of chorus. The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these: — '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 339 - After the exertion of entering into such a place, through a passage of fifty, a hundred, three hundred, or perhaps six hundred yards, nearly overcome, I sought a resting-place, found one, and contrived to sit; but when my weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed it like a band-box. I naturally had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but they found no better support; so that I...
Stranica 340 - Thus I proceeded from one cave to another, all full of mummies piled up in various ways, some standing, some lying, and some on their heads. The purpose of my researches was to rob the Egyptians of their papyri; of which I found a few hidden in their breasts, under their arms, in the space above the knees, or on the legs, and covered by the numerous folds of cloth, that envelop the mummy.
Stranica 38 - I saw with infinite pleasure the great object of my mission — the longsought-for majestic Niger, glittering to the morning sun, as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and having drunk of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer to the Great Ruler of all things, for having thus far crowned my endeavours with success.
Stranica 42 - ... for me to ride away. But my horse was too much fatigued; so we rode slowly past the bush, from which the animal had given us the alarm. Not seeing...