Under the Palms in Algeria and Tunis ...Hurst and Blackett, 1868 |
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... fact that in days of storm coins and other relics are found in quantities on the beach . Mar- shal Valée , at the time of the conquest , felt anxious to give Constantine a fit opening to the sea , and laid the foundations of the Fort de ...
... fact that in days of storm coins and other relics are found in quantities on the beach . Mar- shal Valée , at the time of the conquest , felt anxious to give Constantine a fit opening to the sea , and laid the foundations of the Fort de ...
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... fact that rather than remain where we were , we submitted to the indignity of being packed up along with the luggage , and stowed away in the place usually allotted to the banquette , lying all in heaps any- how , our bones broken by ...
... fact that rather than remain where we were , we submitted to the indignity of being packed up along with the luggage , and stowed away in the place usually allotted to the banquette , lying all in heaps any- how , our bones broken by ...
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... fact that the oases are all pretty much on a straight line , and that water is found at an average depth all along that line . The natives , struck with the phenomenon , seek of course to account for it by the supernatural . They say ...
... fact that the oases are all pretty much on a straight line , and that water is found at an average depth all along that line . The natives , struck with the phenomenon , seek of course to account for it by the supernatural . They say ...
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... is rendered possible by the fact that the foolish birds almost always run in the direction in which they are started , unless terrified by a passing caravan , or some similar cause . 62 USES OF THE OSTRICH . A troop of ostriches.
... is rendered possible by the fact that the foolish birds almost always run in the direction in which they are started , unless terrified by a passing caravan , or some similar cause . 62 USES OF THE OSTRICH . A troop of ostriches.
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... fact the fable of their hiding their heads under their wings ? Their eggs are delicious . One of them will make an omelette for ten people . The town of Biskra , after dark , is seen from its most characteristic side . Then it is that ...
... fact the fable of their hiding their heads under their wings ? Their eggs are delicious . One of them will make an omelette for ten people . The town of Biskra , after dark , is seen from its most characteristic side . Then it is that ...
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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.