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 ...
Page 78
... 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 ...
Page 136
... 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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