Letters on a Journey to Bombay: Through Syria and Arabia, in 1834-35 |
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Agails Allayan amongst Annisees appeared Arabs arrived Athens attack Baalbec Babylon Bedouin Beirout boat Bombay bread bricks bridge of boats Buggalow built Bussorah called camels camp Captain caravanserai Castalian spring centre cold Colonel Taylor covered Ctesiphon cultivated Damascus DEAR desert dirty dress encampment England Euphrates Father feet high fifty fire four Fraser friends Futty Illaw Gataxidi Greek ground Gulf of Lepanto Hillah horsemen horses Ibrahim Pasha inhabitants journey land letter living looking luggage Marquot miles miserable morning mounds mountains nearly night o'clock obliged ourselves party passed Patras Persian pieces pitched plunder poor procured remain river rubbish ruins sail scarcely sent servants Sheikh or Chief Shoogy Shooch side sleep soon sorah sort stopped Syra Syria tent thing thousand Tigris told town travelling troops Turks twelve twenty vessel village walls whole wind Zobeide


