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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... Tent -Its Furniture - Sheik Abdallah - Some Notice of his Tribe -Alarm of an Arab Attack - All Labour performed by Women - Dress of the Bedouins - Town of Haran - Its Ruins -Description of the Tower - Another Alarm of Arabs - Salt ...
... Tent -Its Furniture - Sheik Abdallah - Some Notice of his Tribe -Alarm of an Arab Attack - All Labour performed by Women - Dress of the Bedouins - Town of Haran - Its Ruins -Description of the Tower - Another Alarm of Arabs - Salt ...
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... tents , repentance of our folly , occupied a few hours Darkness came on , and with it every prospect of a bivouac without tobacco , food , fire , or cloaks falls , stumbles , loss of the only road left us , a heavy cold mist , and ...
... tents , repentance of our folly , occupied a few hours Darkness came on , and with it every prospect of a bivouac without tobacco , food , fire , or cloaks falls , stumbles , loss of the only road left us , a heavy cold mist , and ...
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... tent , and we gladly sat over a fire , in a house prepared for us . Burckhardt divides this plain into two districts , the Bekaa and Belbech ; but doubt may be entertained if they are not two names for the same place . Bekaa means , in ...
... tent , and we gladly sat over a fire , in a house prepared for us . Burckhardt divides this plain into two districts , the Bekaa and Belbech ; but doubt may be entertained if they are not two names for the same place . Bekaa means , in ...
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... tents of the regulars glistened in the afternoon sun . We pitched our tents at the entrance of a large finely built khan here on the Hadjee road . The khans are very fine . This was of a black species of granite , and little out of ...
... tents of the regulars glistened in the afternoon sun . We pitched our tents at the entrance of a large finely built khan here on the Hadjee road . The khans are very fine . This was of a black species of granite , and little out of ...
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... tents in the inner court of the khan , which , though now half in ruins , has only been built , we are told , some fifty years . No sooner were the soldiers released from their duties than they patiently sat and watched all our ...
... tents in the inner court of the khan , which , though now half in ruins , has only been built , we are told , some fifty years . No sooner were the soldiers released from their duties than they patiently sat and watched all our ...
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Aintab Aleppo amidst ancient Ansayrii antique appears Arabs arches Armenian arrived baggage banks bazaars beauty Bedawee beneath Beyrout built called carpets castle Christians church Constantinople curious Dahhal Damascus Desert Diarbekr Djebel dress East Eastern encampment entered Euphrates feet fellow gardens gate half Hamath hand handsome Haran hill Homs horses houses huge Ibrahim Pasha inhabitants inscription khan Koords Latakia Mahomet mare Maronite minaret Montselim Moslem mosque Mosul mountains Mussulman nargilleh native night Orfa ornamented passed perhaps piastres pipe plain poor portions prayer pretty probably Prophet river road rock rode round ruins Saphi Saracenic seemed servants sheik sherbets side Sidon smoke spot Stamboul standing stone Sultan Syria tents Terah tobacco tombs tower town traveller trees tribe trousers Turkish Turkomans Turks village visited walk walls whole wild women
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