Wanderings in North AfricaJ. Murray, 1856 - 320 Seiten Description of a journey from Bengazi through Barca and the Libyan Desert to Cairo. |
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... Italian travellers , anterior in point of time to the last - men- tioned , must not be forgotten , viz . Della Cella , a Genoese physician , who in the suite of the Bey of Ben- ghazi , visited this country in 1819 , and published an ...
... Italian travellers , anterior in point of time to the last - men- tioned , must not be forgotten , viz . Della Cella , a Genoese physician , who in the suite of the Bey of Ben- ghazi , visited this country in 1819 , and published an ...
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... Italian . Such cleverness , such industry , never were employed for smaller ends , for his profits must be in- considerable . He knows , I believe , every article in every house in the town , as well as if he had taken an inventory of ...
... Italian . Such cleverness , such industry , never were employed for smaller ends , for his profits must be in- considerable . He knows , I believe , every article in every house in the town , as well as if he had taken an inventory of ...
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... Italy , and here by the Arabs , Baturne ; it yields a medicinal berry . We now reached a group of low rocks hollowed out into many sepulchral caves . The soil has a reddish tint ( whose reflection is heating to the eyes ) , which with a ...
... Italy , and here by the Arabs , Baturne ; it yields a medicinal berry . We now reached a group of low rocks hollowed out into many sepulchral caves . The soil has a reddish tint ( whose reflection is heating to the eyes ) , which with a ...
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... Italy , the scenery more beautiful and more varied , and fever and dysentery are unknown . From early spring to the middle of October , no rain ever falls , though the sky after the middle of August is almost always cloudy ; a heavy ...
... Italy , the scenery more beautiful and more varied , and fever and dysentery are unknown . From early spring to the middle of October , no rain ever falls , though the sky after the middle of August is almost always cloudy ; a heavy ...
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... Italy have I seen a country apparently so well adapted to the cultivation of the olive ; but the uncertainty of tenure of property , the deplorable weakness of the Government , and the un- tamed savageness of the Arabs of the ...
... Italy have I seen a country apparently so well adapted to the cultivation of the olive ; but the uncertainty of tenure of property , the deplorable weakness of the Government , and the un- tamed savageness of the Arabs of the ...
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