Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile: In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, & 1773, Volum 4James Ballantyne, 1804 - 436 pàgines |
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Pàgina 3
... enemies to our faith . God grant you your desires . " — Wrote the 10th of Zulkade , Anno 1118 , i . e . the 21st of January 1706 . * The direction is " To king Baady , son of king Ounsa , may God favour him with his grace . " The first ...
... enemies to our faith . God grant you your desires . " — Wrote the 10th of Zulkade , Anno 1118 , i . e . the 21st of January 1706 . * The direction is " To king Baady , son of king Ounsa , may God favour him with his grace . " The first ...
Pàgina 14
... enemies to fear , he was persuaded , by some of his favourites , first to dismiss Dermin and his army , then all the troops that had joined him , and go with a few of his attendants , or court , to hunt the buffalo in the neighbouring ...
... enemies to fear , he was persuaded , by some of his favourites , first to dismiss Dermin and his army , then all the troops that had joined him , and go with a few of his attendants , or court , to hunt the buffalo in the neighbouring ...
Pàgina 19
... enemy's great superiority of number , offered battle to them as soon as he arrived . Nor did Tigi and his Galla re- fuse it ; but , on the 28th day of March 1709 , a very obstinate engagement ensued ; where , though the king was ...
... enemy's great superiority of number , offered battle to them as soon as he arrived . Nor did Tigi and his Galla re- fuse it ; but , on the 28th day of March 1709 , a very obstinate engagement ensued ; where , though the king was ...
Pàgina 27
... enemies to the Abys- sinian government . Hunting these miserable wretch- es is the next expedition undertaken by a new king . * Vide general map . The season of this is just before the rains , THE SOURCE OF THE NILE . 27.
... enemies to the Abys- sinian government . Hunting these miserable wretch- es is the next expedition undertaken by a new king . * Vide general map . The season of this is just before the rains , THE SOURCE OF THE NILE . 27.
Pàgina 31
... enemy , constantly upon the watch for them , part of his tribute being paid in black slaves . These , therefore , confine themselves to the southern part of their territory , near the Bara- bra . The extraordinary course of this river ...
... enemy , constantly upon the watch for them , part of his tribute being paid in black slaves . These , therefore , confine themselves to the southern part of their territory , near the Bara- bra . The extraordinary course of this river ...
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Abuna Abyssinia Achmet Adowa Agows Amhara appeared Arabia Arabs Arkeeko army arrived Axum Ayto Azage Azazo Bacuffa Baharnagash beasts Begemder Betwudet brother called church command Damot death Dixan Djawi encamped Enderta enemy Eshte Fasil fire Galla Georgis Gibberti Gojam Gondar governor of Tigre Gusho hand head Hezekias horse hyæna Ibaba immediately inhabitants Iteghe Janni Jidda Kasmati king king's kingdom Koscam l'Oul Lasta Mahomet Mahometans Mammo manner Mariam Barea Masuah Metical Metical Aga miles monks morning mountain murder Naybe never night Nile o'clock officers Oustas Ozoro Esther palace passed patakas person plain priests prince province queen Ras Michael reason Red Sea reign returned river says seemed seen Sennaar sent servants Shangalla shewed side soldiers soon Suhul Tacazze Taranta Tecla Haimanout teff tent thing throne Tigre tion town trees troops village violent Waragna Wechne Welleta Yasine Yasous
Passatges populars
Pàgina 462 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Pàgina 391 - I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn: 5 Lift not up your horn on high : speak not with a stiff neck.
Pàgina 313 - He appears, by his modest and unaffected narration, to have described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears; and his cataracts fall from the rock without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants.
Pàgina 462 - Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Pàgina 434 - Sierra occupied by the 3d division of infantry. — One division of French infantry arrived at the top of the ridge...
Pàgina 464 - Saul caused roll to him a great stone, and ordered those that killed their oxen to cut their throats upon that stone. This was the only lawful way of killing animals for food ; the tying of the ox and throwing it upon the ground was not permitted as equivalent. The Israelites did probably in that case as the...
Pàgina 467 - ... down his ribs, and so on to the buttock, ^cutting the skin wherever it hinders them commodiously to strip the poor animal bare. All the flesh on the buttocks is then cut off, and in solid square pieces, without bones, or much effusion of blood ; and the prodigious noise the animal makes is a signal for the company to sit down to table.
Pàgina 391 - Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.
Pàgina 361 - to be the great reservoir from whence arise most of the rivers that water this part of Abyssinia. A multitude of streams issue from the very summit in all directions; the springs boil out from the earth in large quantities, capable of turning a mill. They plough, sow, and reap here at all seasons ; and the husbandman must blame his own indolence, and not the soil, if he has not three harvests. We saw in one place people busy cutting down wheat ; immediately next to it others at the plough, and the...
Pàgina 228 - I lay down, then, as a positive rule of health, that the warmest dishes the natives delight in, are the most wholesome strangers can use in the putrid climates of the Lower Arabia, Abyssinia, Sennaar, and Egypt itself; and that spirits, and all fermented liquors, should be regarded as...