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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Page 28
... appears to be offering up nazam , but nearer inspection shows his shoe is only receiving the offering to the heaving waves . Our steamer had passed sad hours of toil , and pitched and tossed us all out of temper before we entered the ...
... appears to be offering up nazam , but nearer inspection shows his shoe is only receiving the offering to the heaving waves . Our steamer had passed sad hours of toil , and pitched and tossed us all out of temper before we entered the ...
Page 29
... appears , and the fragile building speaks , how truly , in its contrast to the massive walls and ponderous works of former rulers , that the battle is not always to the strong . On the northern corner is a more sheltered dock almost ...
... appears , and the fragile building speaks , how truly , in its contrast to the massive walls and ponderous works of former rulers , that the battle is not always to the strong . On the northern corner is a more sheltered dock almost ...
Page 43
... appear- ance of a fortification . On a reef of rock that shelters the harbour , stands a pile of building of different eras . It seems to be castle , mosque , and church . Along the beach lie hundreds of shafts of columns , and many are ...
... appear- ance of a fortification . On a reef of rock that shelters the harbour , stands a pile of building of different eras . It seems to be castle , mosque , and church . Along the beach lie hundreds of shafts of columns , and many are ...
Page 66
... appear- ance to the spot . Some few lemon and lime trees alone were left for their intrinsic worth . The very ground she reposed on was envied by the plough , whose sharp traces had run round it in scraping propinquity . The beautiful ...
... appear- ance to the spot . Some few lemon and lime trees alone were left for their intrinsic worth . The very ground she reposed on was envied by the plough , whose sharp traces had run round it in scraping propinquity . The beautiful ...
Page 70
... appears to have prophesied of himself , and given her but a very subordinate place in the procession in triumph to Jerusalem . On this point they quarrelled , and he was driven to Sidon . She , however , long continued to support him ...
... appears to have prophesied of himself , and given her but a very subordinate place in the procession in triumph to Jerusalem . On this point they quarrelled , and he was driven to Sidon . She , however , long continued to support him ...
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Aintab Aleppo amidst ancient Ansayrii appears Arabs arches Armenian arrived baggage banks bazaars beauty Bedawee beneath Beyrout built CALIFORNIA LIBRARY 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 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