The Ansayrii, (or Assassins,): With Travels in the Further East, in 1850-51. Including a Visit to Ninevah, Volume 1R. Bentley, 1851 |
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... visited by Europeans . To this new route let me invite the reader , the traveller , the savant . The Ansayrii have long been an enigma- travellers have skirted , have beheld from a distance , but have never ventured among their ...
... visited by Europeans . To this new route let me invite the reader , the traveller , the savant . The Ansayrii have long been an enigma- travellers have skirted , have beheld from a distance , but have never ventured among their ...
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... Visits from the Sick - What they were pre- scribed 133 CHAPTER X. The Whirro - Sleight of hand of the Natives of Karah - Halt at a large Khan - Description of it - Son of the Montselim - Firing at a mark - Muskets of Damascus - Dine ...
... Visits from the Sick - What they were pre- scribed 133 CHAPTER X. The Whirro - Sleight of hand of the Natives of Karah - Halt at a large Khan - Description of it - Son of the Montselim - Firing at a mark - Muskets of Damascus - Dine ...
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... visited it before , but it seemed to me cleaner and more quaint than of yore - more picturesque , more peculiar in itself . The mixture of warlike defences with Eastern comforts ; * the stiff bastion and shaded arbour ; the dread array ...
... visited it before , but it seemed to me cleaner and more quaint than of yore - more picturesque , more peculiar in itself . The mixture of warlike defences with Eastern comforts ; * the stiff bastion and shaded arbour ; the dread array ...
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... visited the noble cathedral of St. John , but could not remove from my mind the impression of former years . It is ponderous and sombre , the columns heavy , and the arabesque tawdry . The mausoleum to the brother of Louis Philippe ...
... visited the noble cathedral of St. John , but could not remove from my mind the impression of former years . It is ponderous and sombre , the columns heavy , and the arabesque tawdry . The mausoleum to the brother of Louis Philippe ...
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... visited also the Baths of Diana , now environed by a paper - mill ; and difficult would it be in the modern building , with its long low apartments and vigorous activity , to trace any remains of the chaste goddess . May we hope that ...
... visited also the Baths of Diana , now environed by a paper - mill ; and difficult would it be in the modern building , with its long low apartments and vigorous activity , to trace any remains of the chaste goddess . May we hope that ...
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Aintab Aleppo amidst ancient Ansayrii appears Arabs arches Armenian arrived baggage banks bazaars beauty Bedawee beneath Beyrout built called castle Christians church companion Constantinople curious Dahhal Damascus Desert Diarbekr Djebel dress East Eastern encampment Euphrates feet fellow friends gate half Hamath hand handsome Haran hill Homs horses houses huge Ibrahim Pasha inhabitants inscription khan Koords Kubbes land Latakia Mahomet mare Maronite Marra minaret Montselim Moslem mosque Mosul mountains muleteer Mussulman nargilleh native Nestorian night Orfa ornamented passed perhaps piastres pipe pitched plain poor prayer pretty probably Prophet remains repose rest river road rock rode round ruins Saphi Saracens seemed sent servants sheik side Sidon smoke spot stone Sultan Syria tents Terah tobacco tombs tower town traveller tribe Turkish Turkomans Turks village visited walk walls whole wild women
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