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 2
... and that these people have been ar- The seal given in Le Grande's Book is not the king's ; It is the invention of some Mahometan , employed to write the letters . you , rested at your town of Sennaar . We 2 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER.
... and that these people have been ar- The seal given in Le Grande's Book is not the king's ; It is the invention of some Mahometan , employed to write the letters . you , rested at your town of Sennaar . We 2 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER.
Pàgina 3
... town of Sennaar . We require of therefore , to set them immediately at liberty , and to suffer them to come to us with all the marks of ho- nour ; and that you should pay regard to the ancient friendship which has always subsisted ...
... town of Sennaar . We require of therefore , to set them immediately at liberty , and to suffer them to come to us with all the marks of ho- nour ; and that you should pay regard to the ancient friendship which has always subsisted ...
Pàgina 10
... town of great Cairo , may God favour them with his goodness . " There are several things very remarkable in this letter . The king of Abyssinia values himself , and his predecessors , upon never having molested or troubled any of his ...
... town of great Cairo , may God favour them with his goodness . " There are several things very remarkable in this letter . The king of Abyssinia values himself , and his predecessors , upon never having molested or troubled any of his ...
Pàgina 50
... town , where there is a royal residence , below Maitsha , on the west , or Gojam side of the Nile , from which it is about three days dis- tance . From this he returned again , and went to Tcherkin , a small village in the Kolla ...
... town , where there is a royal residence , below Maitsha , on the west , or Gojam side of the Nile , from which it is about three days dis- tance . From this he returned again , and went to Tcherkin , a small village in the Kolla ...
Pàgina 51
... town , till the apartments should be smoked with gunpowder . But this was done so carelessly by his servants , that his house was burnt to the ground ; which was looked upon as a very bad omen , and made a great impres sion upon the ...
... town , till the apartments should be smoked with gunpowder . But this was done so carelessly by his servants , that his house was burnt to the ground ; which was looked upon as a very bad omen , and made a great impres sion upon the ...
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Frases i termes més freqüents
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...