 | James MacQueen - Africa - 1840 - 420 pages
...which threatened every moment to bury us in their course. One of the largest of these pillars, crossing our camp, overset all the tents, and, whirling us...consternation was general ; nothing was heard on all sides but lamentations, and most of my companions recommended themselves to heaven, crying with all their might,... | |
 | Wilhelm Wittich - Earthquakes - 1845 - 432 pages
...on the other in the utmost confusion. We knew not where we were, and could not distinguish anything at the distance of a foot. The sand wrapped us in darkness like a fog, and the sky and the earth seemed confounded and blended in one. Whilst this frightful tempest... | |
 | 1873 - 744 pages
...on the other in the utmost confusion. We knew not where we were, and could not distinguish anything at the distance of a foot. The sand wrapped us in darkness like a fog, and heaven and earth seemed confounded and blended in oue. Whilst this frightful tempest lasted,... | |
 | Tempest - 1848 - 316 pages
...on the other in the utmost confusion. We knew not where we were, and could not distinguish anything at the distance of a foot. The sand wrapped us in darkness like a fog, and the sky and earth seemed confounded and blended in one. Whilst this frightful tempest lasted... | |
 | Mrs. Loudon (Jane), Jane Loudon - Natural history - 1848 - 426 pages
...on the other in the utmost confusion. We knew not where we were, and could not distinguish anything at the distance of a foot. The sand wrapped us in darkness like a fog, and the sky and the earth seemed confounded and blended in one. Whilst this frightful tempest... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...on the other in the utmost confusion. We knew not where we were, and could not distinguish anything at the distance of a foot. The sand wrapped us in darkness like a fog, and the sky and the earth seemed confounded and blended in one. Whilst this frightful tempest... | |
 | David Purdie Thomson - Meteorology - 1849 - 516 pages
...on the other in the utmost confusion. We knew not where we were, and could not distinguish any thing at the distance of a foot. The sand wrapped us in darkness like a fog, and the sky and the earth seemed confounded and blended in one. Whilst this frightful tempest... | |
 | S.G Goodrich - 1851 - 664 pages
...of sand, which threatened to bury us in their course. One of the largest of these pillars, crossing our camp, overset all the tents, and, whirling us...consternation was general; nothing was heard on all sides but lamentations, and most of my companions recommended themselves to heaven, crying with all their might,... | |
 | 1852 - 700 pages
...the other in the utmost confusion. We knew not where we were, and could not distin;"isli any thing at the distance of a foot. The sand wrapped us in darkness like a fog, and the s>ky and the earth seemed confounded and blended in one. Whilst this frightful tempest... | |
 | Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - Science - 1854 - 246 pages
...writer, describing this wind, says — " We knew not where we were, and could not distinguish anything at the distance of a foot. The sand wrapped us in darkness, like a fog, and the sky and the earth seemed confounded and blended together." — Caille.* The precise operating... | |
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One of the largest of these pillars of sand," says a modern traveller, Caillie, " crossed our camp, overset all the seats, and whirling us about like straws, threw one of us on the other in the utmost confusion. We knew not where we were, and could not... 
