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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... difficulty in believing this story , and other tales not less marvellous . The profits of the trading vessels are principally made on the return Chap . I. ASPECT OF THE TOWN . 5 voyage 4 Chap . I. WANDERINGS IN NORTH AFRICA .
... difficulty in believing this story , and other tales not less marvellous . The profits of the trading vessels are principally made on the return Chap . I. ASPECT OF THE TOWN . 5 voyage 4 Chap . I. WANDERINGS IN NORTH AFRICA .
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... less lux- urious , their feasts are less frequent and less gay than those of richer places ; they have few or no amuse- ments , and there is no bath in the town , excepting in the castle , where there is one capable of containing a ...
... less lux- urious , their feasts are less frequent and less gay than those of richer places ; they have few or no amuse- ments , and there is no bath in the town , excepting in the castle , where there is one capable of containing a ...
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... less barren , being covered with short grass , which , even when quite dry , has a greenish yellow tone ; it is thickly dotted with thorny plants , some of which were just bursting into fresh leaf , and were most gaily green . In four ...
... less barren , being covered with short grass , which , even when quite dry , has a greenish yellow tone ; it is thickly dotted with thorny plants , some of which were just bursting into fresh leaf , and were most gaily green . In four ...
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... less bare . While my tent was being pitched for the mid - day repose , I rode to a distance of twenty minutes to the north to see the remains of a ruined castle , called by the Arabs Kasr Jbilla . It is a square build- ing , with towers ...
... less bare . While my tent was being pitched for the mid - day repose , I rode to a distance of twenty minutes to the north to see the remains of a ruined castle , called by the Arabs Kasr Jbilla . It is a square build- ing , with towers ...
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... less reason , and the best idea I can give of its import and style is by recalling the nursery ditty , - Here we go up , up , up , Now we go down , down . Chorus - How , wow , how . as like bow wow wow as can be . In leaving Zardes our ...
... less reason , and the best idea I can give of its import and style is by recalling the nursery ditty , - Here we go up , up , up , Now we go down , down . Chorus - How , wow , how . as like bow wow wow as can be . In leaving Zardes our ...
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