 | Margaret De Courcy, Beatrice De Courcy - 1832 - 562 Seiten
...the link by which many nations separated by boundless wastes are connected. Major Smith observes : " To the wild Arab of the desert, the camel is all that...saddles, and buckets of the hide: he conveys himself and his family on his back, makes his pillow of his side, and his shelter of him against the whirlwind... | |
 | Robert Jameson, James Wilson, Hugh Murray - 1832 - 390 Seiten
...for its swiftness, as the name imports, is now for the most part bestowed on the species itself. " To the wild Arab of the desert, the camel is all that to necessities require. He feeds on the flesh, drinks the milk, makes clothes and tents of the hair... | |
 | Robert Jameson - 1842 - 386 Seiten
...for its swiftness, as the name imports, is now for the most part bestowed on the sp» cies itself. " To the wild Arab of the desert, the camel is all that...buckets of the hide ; he conveys himself and family ou his back, makes his pillow of his side, and his shelter of him against the whirlwind of sand. Couched... | |
 | 1844 - 384 Seiten
...for its swiftness, as the Dame imports, is now for the most part bestowed on the spe> ciee itself. " To the wild Arab of the desert, the camel is all that...makes clothes and tents of the hair; belts, sandals, saddle*, and buckets of the hide ; he conveys himself and family on hie back, makes, his pillow of... | |
 | Margaret De Courcy, Beatrice De Courcy - 1832 - 540 Seiten
...the link by which many nations separated by boundless wastes are connected. Major Smith observes : " To the wild Arab of the desert, the camel is all that hig necessities require : he feeds on the flesh, drinks the milk, makes clothes and tents of the hair... | |
 | 1856 - 72 Seiten
...frequently impossible. " The Camel," says Major Smith, "is to the Arab all that his necessities require—he feeds on the flesh; drinks the milk; makes clothes and tents of the hair; belts, sandals, and buckets of the hide; he carries himself and his family on his back, makes his pillow of his side,... | |
 | Thomas Rymer Jones - 1865 - 624 Seiten
...under privations which no other animal differently constituted could have borne for half the period. To the wild Arab of the Desert, the Camel is all that...drinks the milk, makes clothes and tents of the hair ; sandals, saddles, and buckets of the hide ; he conveys himself and family on his back ; makes a pillow... | |
 | 1842 - 472 Seiten
...mud and melting snows, soften his feet and render him unfit for use. It has well been said that, ' To the wild Arab of the desert, the camel is all that...and tents of the hair; belts, sandals, saddles, and backets of the hide : he conveys himself and family on his back, makes his pillow of his side, and... | |
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... his back, makes his pillow of his side, and his shelter of him against the whirlwind of sand. Couched in a circle around him, his camels form a fence, and in battle an intrenchment behind which his family and property are obstinately, and often successfully... 