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... Turkish Steamer to Egypt from Constantinople, .... Page 5 PART I. Purpose in going to Egypt. — Preparatory studies. — Europe. — Greece. — Arrival in Egypt. — Atfeh. — Cairo. — Donkeys. — Lions of Cairo. — Mohammed Ali in 1848-9 ...
... Turkish Steamer to Egypt from Constantinople, .... Page 5 PART I. Purpose in going to Egypt. — Preparatory studies. — Europe. — Greece. — Arrival in Egypt. — Atfeh. — Cairo. — Donkeys. — Lions of Cairo. — Mohammed Ali in 1848-9 ...
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... Turks and Persians. English travellers. — Dangers of the Nile. — Fayoom. — Minieh. — Gebel Heredy. — Sindbad the ... Turkish bath and the Dutchman. — A bright evening. Arab tales. — Soohajz. — Convent of Aboo Shenood. — Carrier Arab ...
... Turks and Persians. English travellers. — Dangers of the Nile. — Fayoom. — Minieh. — Gebel Heredy. — Sindbad the ... Turkish bath and the Dutchman. — A bright evening. Arab tales. — Soohajz. — Convent of Aboo Shenood. — Carrier Arab ...
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... Turkish empire ; and from finding them represented in the sculptures of Thebes, accompanying men of their own nation who bear tribute to the Eygptian monarch, we may conclude that a certain number were annually sent to Egypt from the ...
... Turkish empire ; and from finding them represented in the sculptures of Thebes, accompanying men of their own nation who bear tribute to the Eygptian monarch, we may conclude that a certain number were annually sent to Egypt from the ...
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... Turkish passengers crowd on board, and the cabins are filled with the wives of the Grand Pacha, Fuchtar Effendi, of two tails, whom the Sultan has recently appointed Governor of Mecca. Finally, his Pacha friends crowd around in their ...
... Turkish passengers crowd on board, and the cabins are filled with the wives of the Grand Pacha, Fuchtar Effendi, of two tails, whom the Sultan has recently appointed Governor of Mecca. Finally, his Pacha friends crowd around in their ...
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... a dreamer's eye. But what was Lake Leman to the Lake Mareotis ? what were all the rivers in the world when one sees the glorious Nile ? Arriving at Alexandria by the Turkish steamer, I was impatient 12 VOYAGE UP THE NILE.
... a dreamer's eye. But what was Lake Leman to the Lake Mareotis ? what were all the rivers in the world when one sees the glorious Nile ? Arriving at Alexandria by the Turkish steamer, I was impatient 12 VOYAGE UP THE NILE.
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Page 153 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 199 - And the flax and the barley was smitten : for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten ; for they were not grown up.
Page 154 - And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
Page 223 - And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
Page 126 - Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen ; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.
Page 116 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Page 176 - Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we : Come on, let us deal wisely with them ; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
Page 177 - And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Page 107 - In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon, the chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, the bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs...
Page 211 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left; and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.