Through and Through the Tropics: 30,000 Miles of Travel in Polynesia, Australasia, and IndiaHarper, 1882 - 304 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Agra Akbar beautiful Benares Brahmins brick building built Calcutta called Cape Cape Horn captain carved centre coast colors contains crater Delhi dome dred elephant Emperor English feet in height feet long five flowers four gardens gharry gold Golden Fleece half Hawaiian Hindoos Hindostan Honolulu hookah horse latitudes huge hundred and fifty hundred feet hundred miles immense India Indus inlaid Iolani Palace island Kamehameha Kamehameha IV Kanakas Kilauea king land lava length lofty magnificent Mahal mausoleum miles distant minars Mogul Mohammedan Molokai morning mosque mountains native nearly night Oahu ocean Oudh palace passed Persian plain present Prince rajah resembled river royal rupees San Francisco sandstone Shah Jehan ship side Sikh silver Singh species stands steamer stone Sukkur summit Sydney Taj Mahal temple tion tomb trees twelve twenty Umritsur vessels volcanic voyage walls white marble width
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 209 - And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
Seite 209 - O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, Behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, And lay thy foundations with sapphires. And I will make thy windows of agates, And thy gates of carbuncles, And all thy borders of pleasant stones.
Seite 224 - Jesus, on whom be peace, has said, The world is merely a bridge ; you are to pass over it and not to build your dwellings upon it.
Seite 272 - With woodbine, many a perfume breathed From plants that wake when others sleep, From timid jasmine buds, that keep Their odour to themselves all day, But, when the sunlight dies away, Let the delicious secret out To every breeze that roams about...
Seite 36 - ... so for two years, and at the end of the two years there was as much to be done as ever. As has often been said, a ship is like a lady's watch, always out of repair. When first leaving port, studding-sail gear is to be rove, all the running rigging to be examined, that which is unfit for use to be got down, and new rigging rove in its place; then the standing rigging is to be overhauled, replaced, and repaired in a thousand different ways; and wherever any of the numberless ropes or the yards...
Seite 76 - Now passed a cascade, then a whirlpool, then a smooth majestic river, then a series of rapids, tossing their waves like a stormy sea ; now rolling into lurid caverns, the roofs of which were hung with red-hot stalactites, and then under arches which it had thrown over itself in sportive triumph.
Seite 251 - For, oh, if there be an elysium on earth, It is this, it is this ! There's a bliss beyond all that the minstrel has told, When two, that are link'd in one heavenly tie, With heart never changing and brow never cold, Love on through all ills, and love on till they die ; One hour of a passion so sacred is worth Whole ages of heartless and wandering bliss : And oh...
Seite 36 - Six days shalt thou labor and do all that thou art able, And on the seventh — holystone the decks and scrape the cable.
Seite 254 - ... Mount Hermon, and a pelican from that of Mount Carmel, recalling Hosea xi. 11, "as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria." Crowds of people, travellers, traders, natives, covered the hills in all directions The cry of the muezzin floated on the morning air, Allah il Allah, wa Mohammed resoul Allah, There is but one God, and Mohammed is his Prophet. I passed the Fountain of the Virgin, noticing particularly the Nazareth women who throng there ; their complexion darker than...
Seite 181 - Sacred to the perpetual memory of a great company of Christian people, chiefly women and children, who near this spot were cruelly murdered by the followers of the rebel Nana Dhundu Panth of Bithur, and cast, the dying with the dead, into the well below, on the xvth day of July, MDCCCLVII.