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" ... 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 lasted we remained stretched on the ground motionless, dying of thirst, burned by... "
Travels Through Central Africa to Timbuctoo: And Across the Great Desert, to ... - Page 116
by René Caillié - 1830 - 1005 pages
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Curiosities of Physical Geography

Wilhelm Wittich - Earthquakes - 1845 - 432 pages
...remained stretched on the ground motionless, dying of thirst, burned by the heat of the sand, and buffeted by the wind. We suffered nothing, however, from the sun, whose disk, almost concealed by the clouds of sand, appeared dim and deprived of its rays." What a degree of heat travellers experience...
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The Gallery of Nature: A Pictorial and Descriptive Tour Through Creation

Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...remained stretched on the ground motionless, dying of thirst, burned by the heat of the sand, and buffeted by the wind. We suffered nothing, however, from the sun, whose disk, almost concealed by the clouds of sand, appeared dim and deprived of its rays." Bruce has sketched with spirit several of these...
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Facts from the World of Nature, Animate and Inanimate

Mrs. Loudon (Jane), Jane Loudon - Natural history - 1848 - 426 pages
...remained stretched on the ground motionless, dying of thirst, burned by the heat of the sand, and buffeted by the wind. We suffered nothing, however, from the sun, whose disk, almost concealed by the clouds of sand, appeared dim and deprived of its rays." There are but few wild beasts in the desert:...
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Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, Volume 41

1852 - 702 pages
...remained stretched on the ground motionless, dying of thirst, burned by the heat of the sand, and buffeted by the wind. We suffered nothing, however, from the sun, whose disk, almost concealed by the clouds of sand, appeared dim and deprived of its rays." Bruce has sketched with spirit several of these...
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The gallery of nature: a tour through creation, Volume 28

Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pages
...remained stretched on the ground motionless, dying of thirst, burned by the heat of the sand, and buffeted by the wind. We suffered nothing, however, from the sun, whose disk, almost concealed by the clouds of sand, appeared dim and deprived of its rays." Bruce has sketched with spirit several of these...
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Physical Geography in Its Relation to the Prevailing Winds and Currents

John Knox Laughton - Meteorology - 1873 - 416 pages
...Great Desert to Morocco, vol. i., pp. 337, 345. thirst, burned by the heat of the sand, and buffeted by the wind. We suffered nothing, however, from the...cloud of sand, appeared dim and shorn of its beams." * The sand which easterly winds thus raise in the Desert is carried by them far out to sea. During...
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