An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq. Into Abyssinia, to Discover the Source of the Nile: Abridged from the Original WorkH.D. Symonds, Paternoster-Row., 1814 - 373 pages |
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... Beginning of this King's Reign , and his rigorous Conduct with the Monks of Debra Libanos - Saif Araad enjoys a peaceful Reign - Zara Jacob fends Ambaffadors from Jeru- falem to the Council of Florence - Boda Mariam receives much ill ...
... Beginning of this King's Reign , and his rigorous Conduct with the Monks of Debra Libanos - Saif Araad enjoys a peaceful Reign - Zara Jacob fends Ambaffadors from Jeru- falem to the Council of Florence - Boda Mariam receives much ill ...
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... ambaffador , Caffem Aga , at the beginning of this century , and all believed in England , though they carried falfehood upon the very face of them . B 3 Now Now approaching the fea coaft , he came to Ptolo- INTRODUCTION . 5.
... ambaffador , Caffem Aga , at the beginning of this century , and all believed in England , though they carried falfehood upon the very face of them . B 3 Now Now approaching the fea coaft , he came to Ptolo- INTRODUCTION . 5.
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... beginning of September , and a light and steady breeze , though not properly fair , promised a fhort and agreeable voyage ; but it was not long be- fore it turned fresh and cold ; a violent fhower of hail came on , and the clouds were ...
... beginning of September , and a light and steady breeze , though not properly fair , promised a fhort and agreeable voyage ; but it was not long be- fore it turned fresh and cold ; a violent fhower of hail came on , and the clouds were ...
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... beginning of March , and that two days only before their arrival , people had begun to open their houfes and communicate with each other ; but it was no matter , St. John's day was paft , the miraculous nucta , or dew , had fallen , and ...
... beginning of March , and that two days only before their arrival , people had begun to open their houfes and communicate with each other ; but it was no matter , St. John's day was paft , the miraculous nucta , or dew , had fallen , and ...
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... beginning of July , re- commended to the very hofpitable houfe of Julian and Bertran , to whom Mr. Bruce imparted his refolution of purfuing his journey to Abyffinia . The wildness of the intention feemed to ftrike them greatly , on ...
... beginning of July , re- commended to the very hofpitable houfe of Julian and Bertran , to whom Mr. Bruce imparted his refolution of purfuing his journey to Abyffinia . The wildness of the intention feemed to ftrike them greatly , on ...
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An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq. Into Abyssinia ... James Bruce,Samuel Shaw Affichage du livre entier - 1790 |
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Page 218 - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 369 - ... did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds. There the tops often separated from the bodies ; and these, once disjoined, dispersed in the air, and did not appear more.
Page 320 - Dextrous, too, as the riders are, the elephant sometimes reaches them with his trunk, with which he dashes the horse against the ground, and then sets his feet upon him, till he tears him limb from limb with his proboscis ; *a great many hunters die this way.
Page 218 - It is infamy for a man to go to market to buy any thing. He cannot carry water or bake bread ; but he must wash the clothes belonging to both sexes, and, in this function, the women cannot help him.
Page 353 - The inside of her lip she had made black with antimony. Her ears reached down to her shoulders, and had the appearance of wings ; she had in each of them a large ring of gold, somewhat smaller than a man's little finger, and about five inches diameter.
Page 221 - In the mean time, those within are very much elevated; love lights all its fires, and every thing is permitted with absolute freedom. There is no...
Page 279 - I ran down the hill, towards the little island of green sods, which was about two hundred yards distant; the whole side of the hill was thick grown over with flowers, the large bulbous roots of which appearing above the surface of the ground, and their skins coming off on treading upon them, occasioned...
Page 208 - Sierra occupied by the 3d division of infantry. — One division of French infantry arrived at the top of the ridge...
Page 201 - ... of the heavens. Other countries are not like this, though this was never so bad as it is now. These wretches here are enemies to strangers; if they saw you alone in your own parlour, their first thought would be how to murder you ; though they knew they were to get nothing by it, they would murder you for mere mischief.
Page 16 - Tyre seems to have been only a concealment of their knowledge of cochineal, as, had they depended upon the fish for their dye, if the whole city of Tyre applied to nothing else but fishing, they would not have coloured twenty yards of cloth in a year.