Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 1824, 1825, 1826, and 1827, Volume 2H. Colburn, 1829 - Egypt |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 55
Page 3
... Miles . 78 • 80 28 · 54 36 • 56 · • 28 38 Making about four hundred miles from Cairo to Thebes . I knew this voyage to be accomplished in five days ; but the average period is from fifteen to twenty - five . The following are the ...
... Miles . 78 • 80 28 · 54 36 • 56 · • 28 38 Making about four hundred miles from Cairo to Thebes . I knew this voyage to be accomplished in five days ; but the average period is from fifteen to twenty - five . The following are the ...
Page 8
... miles distant , with res- pect to those who are destined to be the guardians of the great harems in the Turkish empire . It is only in this village where the ceremony is per- formed ; and , strange to say , the actors are Christian ...
... miles distant , with res- pect to those who are destined to be the guardians of the great harems in the Turkish empire . It is only in this village where the ceremony is per- formed ; and , strange to say , the actors are Christian ...
Page 17
... miles above Cairo I saw the first crocodile ; after passing Siout these ani- mals were very numerous on the sand banks of the Nile , and my only amusement for fifteen days was shooting at them . I had not the good fortune to kill one ...
... miles above Cairo I saw the first crocodile ; after passing Siout these ani- mals were very numerous on the sand banks of the Nile , and my only amusement for fifteen days was shooting at them . I had not the good fortune to kill one ...
Page 51
... miles below Thebes , I went ashore to have some shooting : I had my hand close to the muzzle of the gun , when , on putting the stock to the ground , something touched the trigger , and off it went close to my ear . The Arab who stood ...
... miles below Thebes , I went ashore to have some shooting : I had my hand close to the muzzle of the gun , when , on putting the stock to the ground , something touched the trigger , and off it went close to my ear . The Arab who stood ...
Page 84
... miles distant , who had been a cripple from his boyhood , to request I would restore him to the use of his limbs . I told him it was impossible ; but he smiled at the word , and said , " Oh hakkim ! I know very well if you wished to ...
... miles distant , who had been a cripple from his boyhood , to request I would restore him to the use of his limbs . I told him it was impossible ; but he smiled at the word , and said , " Oh hakkim ! I know very well if you wished to ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Alexandria Allah ancient animal Arabs arrival Assouan beauty Bedouin believe Bishop boat body Cairo called Casheff CASIDA Christian church colocynth convent Coptic Copts CRANIOLOGY crocodile Damietta Dead Sea dear Sir Desert ditto divine EDFOU Egyptian Egyptian vulture embalming endeavoured English eyes feet five four give Gourna Greek hakkim half hand harem head Hebrew Herodotus honour hundred hyenas Israelites Jerusalem Jews journey Lady H Ladyship lake LAMJA Levantine look magician Menzalè miles monks mountains mummy never night Nile Nubian observed opinion Osiris Pacha passage perhaps piastres pistol poison priests R. R. M. LETTER Red Sea religion remain ruins sacred Salehie Salt sand says seen sepulchre serpent servant Sheik shore Siout splendid Suez Surur Syria temple Thebes thee thing thou thousand Tiberias tion tomb took traveller Turk Turkish Upper Egypt village walls women word Zoan
Popular passages
Page 182 - Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
Page 216 - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Page 301 - And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee : blessed art thou among women.
Page 182 - And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened ; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry...
Page 311 - Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
Page 300 - There appeared in these our days a man of great virtue, named Jesus Christ, who is yet living amongst us, and of the Gentiles is accepted for a Prophet of truth, but his own disciples call him the Son of God.
Page 248 - ... rumbling about my bed ; but I regarded him nothing at all. When afterwards I began to slumber, then he kept such a racket and rumbling upon the chamber stairs, as if many emptie hogsheads and barrels had been tumbled down...
Page 290 - There shall not be found among you any one that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Page 213 - Suez, as Niebuhr, with good reason, conjectures. There is no other road of three days' march, in the way from Suez towards Sinai ; nor is there any other well absolutely bitter on the whole of this coast, as far as Ras Mohammed [the extreme southern point of the peninsula].
Page 356 - Halley's observations on evaporation ; observations admitted by Shaw, though he calculates that the Jordan daily discharges into the Dead Sea six millions and ninety thousand tons of water, exclusively of the Arnon and seven other streams. Several travellers, and, among others, Troilo and d'Arvieux, assert that they remarked fragments of walls and palaces in the Dead Sea.