Under the Palms in Algeria and Tunis ...Hurst and Blackett, 1868 |
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... stands the weather bravely still . Come and walk up here and see the Circus . What big stones they used , and here they are yet , though the hands that placed them have long since passed away . Tonnerre , but it is wonderful ! " He led ...
... stands the weather bravely still . Come and walk up here and see the Circus . What big stones they used , and here they are yet , though the hands that placed them have long since passed away . Tonnerre , but it is wonderful ! " He led ...
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... stands a tower or minaret , conspicuous as the only white spot in the pervading burnt - up monotony . We were told by the dirty and garrulous old woman who kept the caravansary that there was a mountain of salt hard by very well worth ...
... stands a tower or minaret , conspicuous as the only white spot in the pervading burnt - up monotony . We were told by the dirty and garrulous old woman who kept the caravansary that there was a mountain of salt hard by very well worth ...
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... stand over the ruins of fallen Eu- rope , and send forth edicts to the world ? We saw Biskra in the distance - a long belt of dark green foliage - its celebrated cypress tower- ing like a giant sentinel above the lesser trees . As the ...
... stand over the ruins of fallen Eu- rope , and send forth edicts to the world ? We saw Biskra in the distance - a long belt of dark green foliage - its celebrated cypress tower- ing like a giant sentinel above the lesser trees . As the ...
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... in this portion of the oasis ; its quaint - shaped earth- built minaret stands out in full relief against the sky , while its entrance lies in a sort of subterra- A MILITARY CICERONE . 55 nean passage , rendered more.
... in this portion of the oasis ; its quaint - shaped earth- built minaret stands out in full relief against the sky , while its entrance lies in a sort of subterra- A MILITARY CICERONE . 55 nean passage , rendered more.
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... stands the camel , whose faculty of remaining for four or five days without food renders him an absolute " necessity " in the desert . Four or five camels , therefore , are required for each hunter , who loads them with barrels of water ...
... stands the camel , whose faculty of remaining for four or five days without food renders him an absolute " necessity " in the desert . Four or five camels , therefore , are required for each hunter , who loads them with barrels of water ...
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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.