An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq. Into Abyssinia, to Discover the Source of the Nile: Abridged from the Original WorkH.D. Symonds, Paternoster-Row., 1814 - 373 pagina's |
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Pagina viii
... against Michael- Mr. Bruce retires to Emfras - Defcription of Gon- dar , Emfras , and Lake Tzana - Mr . Bruce vifits the great Cataract of Alata - Paffes the Nile- Alarm on approaching the Army - Joins the King- King's Army retreats ...
... against Michael- Mr. Bruce retires to Emfras - Defcription of Gon- dar , Emfras , and Lake Tzana - Mr . Bruce vifits the great Cataract of Alata - Paffes the Nile- Alarm on approaching the Army - Joins the King- King's Army retreats ...
Pagina 8
... against the ebb , which , by finking and touching the ground , he now made more eafy . At laft , finding his hands and knees upon the fands , he fixed his nails into it , and obftinately refifted being carried back at all , crawling a ...
... against the ebb , which , by finking and touching the ground , he now made more eafy . At laft , finding his hands and knees upon the fands , he fixed his nails into it , and obftinately refifted being carried back at all , crawling a ...
Pagina 12
... against him in Europe , and feeing himself fo treated in return for fo complete a journey as he had then actually terminated , thought it below him to facrifice the beft years of his life to daily pain and danger , when the impreffion ...
... against him in Europe , and feeing himself fo treated in return for fo complete a journey as he had then actually terminated , thought it below him to facrifice the beft years of his life to daily pain and danger , when the impreffion ...
Pagina 20
... against it , but , feeing him refolved , they offered kindly their most effectual fervices . That part of Cairo , in which the French are settled , is exceedingly commodious , and fit for retirement . It confifts of one long ftreet ...
... against it , but , feeing him refolved , they offered kindly their most effectual fervices . That part of Cairo , in which the French are settled , is exceedingly commodious , and fit for retirement . It confifts of one long ftreet ...
Pagina 25
... against the stream , by having the beat drawn with a rope . They advanced a few miles to two convents of Cophts , called Deireteen . Here they stopped to pafs the night , having had a fine view of the Pyramids of Geeza and Saccara , and ...
... against the stream , by having the beat drawn with a rope . They advanced a few miles to two convents of Cophts , called Deireteen . Here they stopped to pafs the night , having had a fine view of the Pyramids of Geeza and Saccara , and ...
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An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq. Into Abyssinia ... James Bruce,Samuel Shaw Volledige weergave - 1790 |
An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq. Into Abyssinia ... James Bruce Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2018 |
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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 208 - Sierra occupied by the 3d division of infantry. — One division of French infantry arrived at the top of the ridge...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.