Under the Palms in Algeria and Tunis ...Hurst and Blackett, 1868 |
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... and were speedily surrounded by an odoriferous group with dusky faces and ragged limbs , who crowded round , and stared as though a European were a very un- usual apparition . CHAPTER XIII . BATNA то BISKRA . E thought it.
... and were speedily surrounded by an odoriferous group with dusky faces and ragged limbs , who crowded round , and stared as though a European were a very un- usual apparition . CHAPTER XIII . BATNA то BISKRA . E thought it.
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... advised us to proceed no further , the snows having driven the lions from their usual haunts nearer to the abodes of man . We were told , indeed , that they VOL . II . C 18 LIONS AND PANTHERS . frequently prowl round the town.
... advised us to proceed no further , the snows having driven the lions from their usual haunts nearer to the abodes of man . We were told , indeed , that they VOL . II . C 18 LIONS AND PANTHERS . frequently prowl round the town.
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... usual arid look , and is as dry as ever , because no rain is ever known to fall here . When I say no rain , I am wrong , for it is reckoned that in very prosperous years there are generally two days of rain during the twelvemonth , one ...
... usual arid look , and is as dry as ever , because no rain is ever known to fall here . When I say no rain , I am wrong , for it is reckoned that in very prosperous years there are generally two days of rain during the twelvemonth , one ...
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... usual , with goggle - eyes and open mouth . The Sheikh nodded at us , thereby intimating that we were welcome ; and we nodded blandly in return , in thankfulness for the same . At his left hand squatted the Figaro of the village , who ...
... usual , with goggle - eyes and open mouth . The Sheikh nodded at us , thereby intimating that we were welcome ; and we nodded blandly in return , in thankfulness for the same . At his left hand squatted the Figaro of the village , who ...
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... usual avocation during the winter months , as they only return home in August for the date - harvest . He was great on the subject of the Duc d'Aumale , who , it seems , paid him a visit when travelling in Africa ; and ended by assuring ...
... usual avocation during the winter months , as they only return home in August for the date - harvest . He was great on the subject of the Duc d'Aumale , who , it seems , paid him a visit when travelling in Africa ; and ended by assuring ...
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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.