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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... took its place , accompanied by all the party contests and all the civil seditions of which the history of the mother - country shows so many examples . To this unsettled condition of its government must be ascribed the fact , that ...
... took its place , accompanied by all the party contests and all the civil seditions of which the history of the mother - country shows so many examples . To this unsettled condition of its government must be ascribed the fact , that ...
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... took my passage on board a brigantine of 150 tons , the Pace , the largest vessel which trades between Malta and Benghazi . The depth of water in the small part of the ancient harbour , which is not yet sanded up , admits no vessel ...
... took my passage on board a brigantine of 150 tons , the Pace , the largest vessel which trades between Malta and Benghazi . The depth of water in the small part of the ancient harbour , which is not yet sanded up , admits no vessel ...
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... took nearly five hours to cast little more than a hundred balls . It must be confessed , in favour of the Jews , that if their filth and ignorance equal those of their brethren in all these countries , they are not behind them in ...
... took nearly five hours to cast little more than a hundred balls . It must be confessed , in favour of the Jews , that if their filth and ignorance equal those of their brethren in all these countries , they are not behind them in ...
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... took my camels seven hours and a half from here to Grennah , which , at the slowest rate of travelling , must give fifteen miles , and from the length of time I was on horseback I should judge the distance nearer eighteen . The ride ...
... took my camels seven hours and a half from here to Grennah , which , at the slowest rate of travelling , must give fifteen miles , and from the length of time I was on horseback I should judge the distance nearer eighteen . The ride ...
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... took a draught of its bright , cool water , and fixed my temporary home beneath the world - famed fountain , amidst the countless ruins of temples and public buildings . CHAPTER III . - Grennah . - Arab Conversation . 32 Chap . II ...
... took a draught of its bright , cool water , and fixed my temporary home beneath the world - famed fountain , amidst the countless ruins of temples and public buildings . CHAPTER III . - Grennah . - Arab Conversation . 32 Chap . II ...
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