Under the Palms in Algeria and Tunis ...Hurst and Blackett, 1868 |
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Էջ 8
... carry letters . We made ourselves very comfortable , however , bivouacking on the roof , and sending the " thorn " to dowager inside . Rain had not fallen here for the last eight months , and yet the fields looked perfectly green , and ...
... carry letters . We made ourselves very comfortable , however , bivouacking on the roof , and sending the " thorn " to dowager inside . Rain had not fallen here for the last eight months , and yet the fields looked perfectly green , and ...
Էջ 9
... carried out , will deprive the English and Mediterranean Steamship Company of an immense amount of Levant traffic . M. A. Blancho advises , both on economical and political grounds , the importance of a railway all along the north coast ...
... carried out , will deprive the English and Mediterranean Steamship Company of an immense amount of Levant traffic . M. A. Blancho advises , both on economical and political grounds , the importance of a railway all along the north coast ...
Էջ 15
... carried us off up a rocky hill to the ruins of the Temple of Esculapius . Rather a pretty group of marble steps and overturned columns have been buried in weeds and grass - tufts . On glancing over the plain , shut in as it is by barren ...
... carried us off up a rocky hill to the ruins of the Temple of Esculapius . Rather a pretty group of marble steps and overturned columns have been buried in weeds and grass - tufts . On glancing over the plain , shut in as it is by barren ...
Էջ 41
... carried on in the great market hard by . This would make the streets look desolate , were it not the fashion to sit about in the road or on the footway , smoking cigarettes and sipping coffee . As it is , there is never a lack of ...
... carried on in the great market hard by . This would make the streets look desolate , were it not the fashion to sit about in the road or on the footway , smoking cigarettes and sipping coffee . As it is , there is never a lack of ...
Էջ 55
... carried on out there by the native regiments of Turkos and Spahis . They are a turbulent set , these Arabs of the Desert ; a yearly inspection is considered neces- sary , to be certain that there is no brewing of in- surrection going on ...
... carried on out there by the native regiments of Turkos and Spahis . They are a turbulent set , these Arabs of the Desert ; a yearly inspection is considered neces- sary , to be certain that there is no brewing of in- surrection going on ...
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Abd-el-Kader acres Africa Algeria Algiers Batna beauty Biskra BLACKETT'S NEW WORKS-Continued Blida blue Bureau Arabe burnous café camels Ceramic Art charming chief colonists colony colour Constantine cotton course crop cultivation dark desert distance Dufourg earth European eyes feet forest found ourselves francs French gold Government hands head hills Hodna horses Hôtel houses HURST AND BLACKETT'S interesting JOHN HALIFAX journey JULIA KAVANAGH Kabyle Kaid labour lady land looked Lord EUSTACE CECIL lovely Marabout MARLBOROUGH STREET MATILDA BETHAM EDWARDS Miliana Mostaganem mountains Msila mules natives night oasis once Oran ostrich Ouargla Oulad Nayls palms passed Philipville picturesque plains pleasant pretty province rain reader reservoir road rocks round ruins Sahara scene Sétif shadows Sheikh sight silver stones story tain tent thing tion Tlemcen Touaregs town traveller trees tribes turned village volumes walls wandered whilst wild wind women woods
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Էջ 280 - Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted: it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.