The Lives of Celebrated Travelers, Opseg 3J. and J. Harper, 1832 |
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Ababde admired Africa afterward Aleppo amused ancient animals appeared Arabs arrived asses banks beautiful Bedouins beheld Belzoni Burckhardt Cairo camels camp canoe caravan Choiseul-Gouffier companions considerable Constantinople continued Crimea danger Denon Desaix desert desirous discovered distance Egypt encamped English escape European exceedingly excursion Family Library fatigue favourable fear fire Forskaal fortune French friends Hauran Heber Hejaz honour horse Hottentots ihram imagined immediately inhabitants Jidda journey Kaarta labours Le Vaillant length Mameluke manner Mecca ment mind Mohammedan mountains natives nature never Niebuhr Niger night Nile notwithstanding observed occasion Pallas Park pasha passed persons plain possessed present proceeded reached received Red Sea remained remarkable rendered returned river road rocks ruins says seems sheïkh shore shortly sight soon spot strangers Syria tents Thebes thing tion took town trav traveller traveller's tree Vaillant village visited Volney voyage whole wild Yemen
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Stranica 33 - the top of a gentle rising," says Park, " I climbed a high tree, from the topmost branches of which I cast a melancholy look over the barren wilderness, but without discovering the most distant trace of a human dwelling. The same dismal uniformity of shrubs and sand every where presented itself, and the horizon was
Stranica 53 - persist in throwing weapons at the canoe without ceasing, stood up and said to them,' Stop throwing now, you see nothing in the canoe, and nobody but myself; therefore cease. Take me and the canoe, but don't kill me.' They took possession of the canoe and the man, and carried them to the king.
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Stranica 41 - Shortly after this," says he, " as we were crossing a large open plain where there were a few scattered bushes, my guide, who was a little way before me, wheeled his horse round in a moment, calling out something in the Foulah language which I did not understand. I inquired in Mandingo what he meant.