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 27
... miles broad , though in many places broader and narrower . It reaches from the moun- tains of the Habab , or Bagla , which run in a ridge , as I have already said , from the south of Abyssinia * north down into Egypt , parallel to the ...
... miles broad , though in many places broader and narrower . It reaches from the moun- tains of the Habab , or Bagla , which run in a ridge , as I have already said , from the south of Abyssinia * north down into Egypt , parallel to the ...
Σελίδα 36
... miles from these powerful invaders furnished with horses and fire - arms , to both of which they are strangers ; they live for part of the fair season in continual apprehension . The other part of the sea- son , when the Abyssinian ...
... miles from these powerful invaders furnished with horses and fire - arms , to both of which they are strangers ; they live for part of the fair season in continual apprehension . The other part of the sea- son , when the Abyssinian ...
Σελίδα 47
... miles off upon the sides of the mountains of Abyssinia , where every certain number of soldiers had small farms allowed them for that pur- pose by government ; but still they could never bring up a crop in the Mazaga . And the progress ...
... miles off upon the sides of the mountains of Abyssinia , where every certain number of soldiers had small farms allowed them for that pur- pose by government ; but still they could never bring up a crop in the Mazaga . And the progress ...
Σελίδα 48
... permit him to be in the field , he bestowed a great deal of leisure and money this way ; and he was , at this time , busy erecting a magnificent church to the Nativity , about a mile below Gondar , on the 48 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER.
... permit him to be in the field , he bestowed a great deal of leisure and money this way ; and he was , at this time , busy erecting a magnificent church to the Nativity , about a mile below Gondar , on the 48 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER.
Σελίδα 49
... mile below Gondar , on the small ri- ver Kahha . But the season of hunting returning before he had finished it , he left it to repair to Bet Malo , a place in the Kolla , where he had built a hunting - seat , not far distant from the ...
... mile below Gondar , on the small ri- ver Kahha . But the season of hunting returning before he had finished it , he left it to repair to Bet Malo , a place in the Kolla , where he had built a hunting - seat , not far distant from the ...
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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...