Tales of TravelGeorge H. Doran Company, 1923 - 381 pages The drums of Kairwan -- The Amir of Afghanistan -- The voice of Mennon -- The falls of the Zambesi -- The great waterfalls of the world -- "Lest we forget." I. The death-bed of Sir Henry Lawrence. II. The billiard table of Napoleon -- The palaestra of Japan -- Pages from a diary -- Humours of travel -- The singing sands. |
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... persons profited by the early licence of victory to visit the hitherto inviolate shrines . Since then the permission had been wisely curtailed by the French , with whose ca- pacity for assimilation with the natives I was throughout my ...
... persons profited by the early licence of victory to visit the hitherto inviolate shrines . Since then the permission had been wisely curtailed by the French , with whose ca- pacity for assimilation with the natives I was throughout my ...
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... persons , all males , in the mosque . Presently the sheikh gave the signal for com- mencement , and in a moment burst forth the melancholy chant of the Arab voices and the ceaseless droning of the drums . The song was not what we should ...
... persons , all males , in the mosque . Presently the sheikh gave the signal for com- mencement , and in a moment burst forth the melancholy chant of the Arab voices and the ceaseless droning of the drums . The song was not what we should ...
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... persons are superior to yourselves , you lay the foundation of envy and hatred , and cause many calamities to fall upon you . Therefore , take care and listen to me , who am your King , with all your heart , and weigh well what I say ...
... persons are superior to yourselves , you lay the foundation of envy and hatred , and cause many calamities to fall upon you . Therefore , take care and listen to me , who am your King , with all your heart , and weigh well what I say ...
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... persons suspected of murder . One day there came running into a Durbar being held by the Amir , streaming with sweat , and 1 I believe the real number was nearer 5,000,000 . in the last stage of exhaustion , a Herati Afghan THE AMIR OF ...
... persons suspected of murder . One day there came running into a Durbar being held by the Amir , streaming with sweat , and 1 I believe the real number was nearer 5,000,000 . in the last stage of exhaustion , a Herati Afghan THE AMIR OF ...
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... persons who must have visited Memnon , would alone suffice to show ; but those who repeated the experiment might expect in the long run to be rewarded for their persever- ance . We are now in possession of all the facts avail- able to ...
... persons who must have visited Memnon , would alone suffice to show ; but those who repeated the experiment might expect in the long run to be rewarded for their persever- ance . We are now in possession of all the facts avail- able to ...
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Abdur Rahman Khan Afghan Afghanistan Amir Amir Abdur Rahman Amir's appeared Arab beach billiard British British Guiana called cataract causes chasm cliffs courtiers described desert distance drums Durbar Egypt Emperor England face famous favour feet high figure frontier Government Graec grains ground Hadrian head heard height hill horses hour India Insc inscriptions islands Jebel Nakus Kabul Kairwan Khagan King Kukenam later London Lord Majesty Memnon ment miles mosque motion mountain Musical Sand native natural NEJEF never Niagara night noise occasion passed Pausanias persons phenomenon plunge present produced Reg-i-Ruwan remarkable resembling river rock Roraima Russian sand-grains sand-hill sand-slope scene seen sheikh side Singing Sands slope sonorous spot statue stone Strabo Suleiman Khan summit sunrise Thebes throne thunder tion travellers vibration Victoria Falls visitor vocal walls waterfalls Wilkinson wind Zambesi
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Page 139 - The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss. And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set...
Page 23 - And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud, for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
Page 100 - Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?
Page 392 - ... rains. By virtue of these films, the sand-grains become separated by elastic cushions of condensed gases, capable of considerable vibration, and whose thickness we have approximately determined. The extent of the vibration and the volume and pitch of the sound thereby produced...
Page 161 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 101 - Golden his hair of short Numidian curl, Regal his shape majestic, a vast shade In midst of his own brightness, like the bulk Of Memnon's image at the set of sun To one who travels from the dusking East: Sighs, too, as mournful as that Memnon's harp He utter'd, while his hands contemplative He press'd together, and in silence stood.
Page 231 - Take her up tenderly — Lift her with care! Fashioned so slenderly — Young, and so fair!
Page 120 - In the lap of the statue is a stone, which, on being struck, emits a metallic sound, that might still be. made use of to deceive a visitor, who was predisposed to believe its powers...
Page 301 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood...
Page 120 - ... be made use of to deceive a visitor, who was predisposed to believe its powers ; and from its position, and the squared space cut in the block behind, as if to admit a person who might thus lie concealed from the most scrutinous observer in the plain below, it seems to have been used after the restoration of the statue ; and another similar recess exists beneath the present site of this stone, which might have been intended for the same purpose when the statue was in its mutilated state.