Under the Palms in Algeria and Tunis ...Hurst and Blackett, 1868 |
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... travellers new to such relics of antiquity , but for those who remember Pompeii's long paved streets , and the house of Diomed , the whole thing is a delusion and a snare . A few statues are collected in a sort of museum near the ...
... travellers new to such relics of antiquity , but for those who remember Pompeii's long paved streets , and the house of Diomed , the whole thing is a delusion and a snare . A few statues are collected in a sort of museum near the ...
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... traveller may obtain a more perfect view . The face of the Sahara is wrinkled by wide river - beds , two or three hundred yards across , the stones and sands of which cover subterranean waters a short depth down . This theory accounts ...
... traveller may obtain a more perfect view . The face of the Sahara is wrinkled by wide river - beds , two or three hundred yards across , the stones and sands of which cover subterranean waters a short depth down . This theory accounts ...
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... traveller of a prison yard . From the shoulders falls a cloak , dark and thick , and over that again is hung a white - striped cotton and silk sort of burnous , which sometimes trails in the mud , and is occasionally drawn over the head ...
... traveller of a prison yard . From the shoulders falls a cloak , dark and thick , and over that again is hung a white - striped cotton and silk sort of burnous , which sometimes trails in the mud , and is occasionally drawn over the head ...
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... travellers . Tuggurt used to be an orthodox expedition , but is now im- possible through the unruly condition of the tribes in that quarter . We had ordered camels as an ex- periment in methods of locomotion , and I had sore misgivings ...
... travellers . Tuggurt used to be an orthodox expedition , but is now im- possible through the unruly condition of the tribes in that quarter . We had ordered camels as an ex- periment in methods of locomotion , and I had sore misgivings ...
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... by suddenly pouncing on unwary travellers . When on a pillaging expedition the Touaregs live upon the pods of one of the desert shrubs , and are trained to go without food for an enormous space 84 THE TOUAREGS . of time . They must have G ...
... by suddenly pouncing on unwary travellers . When on a pillaging expedition the Touaregs live upon the pods of one of the desert shrubs , and are trained to go without food for an enormous space 84 THE TOUAREGS . of time . They must have G ...
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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.