Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile: In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, & 1773, Τόμος 4James Ballantyne, 1804 - 436 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 24
... ground , surrounded by the graver sort , who point out to him the names of those of the nobility that are happy enough to distinguish themselves in his sight . The merit of others is known by report . " Each young man brings before the ...
... ground , surrounded by the graver sort , who point out to him the names of those of the nobility that are happy enough to distinguish themselves in his sight . The merit of others is known by report . " Each young man brings before the ...
Σελίδα 30
... ground ; but , not venturing to extend them- selves in the chase of wild beasts , they are confined to the neighbourhood of the Tacazze , and rivers falling into it , where they fish in safety . The banks of that river are deep ...
... ground ; but , not venturing to extend them- selves in the chase of wild beasts , they are confined to the neighbourhood of the Tacazze , and rivers falling into it , where they fish in safety . The banks of that river are deep ...
Σελίδα 32
... ground so perfectly , that it gapes in chasms ; the grass , struck at the roots by the rays , supports itself no more , but droops , and becomes parched . To clear this away , the Shangalla set fire to it , which runs with incredible ...
... ground so perfectly , that it gapes in chasms ; the grass , struck at the roots by the rays , supports itself no more , but droops , and becomes parched . To clear this away , the Shangalla set fire to it , which runs with incredible ...
Σελίδα 33
... grounds , and guide their enemies to the places in- habited . The country now cleared , the hunting begins , and , with the hunting , the danger of the Shangalla . All the governors , bordering upon the country , from the Baharnagash to ...
... grounds , and guide their enemies to the places in- habited . The country now cleared , the hunting begins , and , with the hunting , the danger of the Shangalla . All the governors , bordering upon the country , from the Baharnagash to ...
Σελίδα 34
... ground , being shaded by their depth , and their being in pos- session of the last water that runs , are the latest to * This explanation is just ; but it cannot be admitted , that fire , kindled by the Shangalla , runs the whole ...
... ground , being shaded by their depth , and their being in pos- session of the last water that runs , are the latest to * This explanation is just ; but it cannot be admitted , that fire , kindled by the Shangalla , runs the whole ...
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Abuna Abyssinia Achmet Adowa Agows Amhara appeared Arabia Arabs Arkeeko army arrived Axum Ayto Azage Azazo Bacuffa Baharnagash beasts Begemder Betwudet brother called church command Damot death Dixan Djawi encamped Enderta enemy Eshte Fasil fire Galla Georgis Gibberti Gojam Gondar governor of Tigre Gusho hand head Hezekias horse hyæna Ibaba immediately inhabitants Iteghe Janni Jidda Kasmati king king's kingdom Koscam l'Oul Lasta Mahomet Mahometans Mammo manner Mariam Barea Masuah Metical Metical Aga miles monks morning mountain murder Naybe never night Nile o'clock officers Oustas Ozoro Esther palace passed patakas person plain priests prince province queen Ras Michael reason Red Sea reign returned river says seemed seen Sennaar sent servants Shangalla shewed side soldiers soon Suhul Tacazze Taranta Tecla Haimanout teff tent thing throne Tigre tion town trees troops village violent Waragna Wechne Welleta Yasine Yasous
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Σελίδα 462 - 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.
Σελίδα 391 - I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn: 5 Lift not up your horn on high : speak not with a stiff neck.
Σελίδα 313 - He appears, by his modest and unaffected narration, to have described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears; and his cataracts fall from the rock without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants.
Σελίδα 462 - Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Σελίδα 434 - Sierra occupied by the 3d division of infantry. — One division of French infantry arrived at the top of the ridge...
Σελίδα 464 - Saul caused roll to him a great stone, and ordered those that killed their oxen to cut their throats upon that stone. This was the only lawful way of killing animals for food ; the tying of the ox and throwing it upon the ground was not permitted as equivalent. The Israelites did probably in that case as the...
Σελίδα 467 - ... down his ribs, and so on to the buttock, ^cutting the skin wherever it hinders them commodiously to strip the poor animal bare. All the flesh on the buttocks is then cut off, and in solid square pieces, without bones, or much effusion of blood ; and the prodigious noise the animal makes is a signal for the company to sit down to table.
Σελίδα 391 - Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.
Σελίδα 361 - to be the great reservoir from whence arise most of the rivers that water this part of Abyssinia. A multitude of streams issue from the very summit in all directions; the springs boil out from the earth in large quantities, capable of turning a mill. They plough, sow, and reap here at all seasons ; and the husbandman must blame his own indolence, and not the soil, if he has not three harvests. We saw in one place people busy cutting down wheat ; immediately next to it others at the plough, and the...
Σελίδα 228 - I lay down, then, as a positive rule of health, that the warmest dishes the natives delight in, are the most wholesome strangers can use in the putrid climates of the Lower Arabia, Abyssinia, Sennaar, and Egypt itself; and that spirits, and all fermented liquors, should be regarded as...