The Lure of the Mediterranean: The Ship Dwellers: a Story of a Happy CruiseHarper & brothers, 1911 - 393 pages |
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... Kings — this , to most of us , means travel . Once , a long time ago it was in 1867 - the good ship Quaker City carried the first little band of ocean excursionists to the shores of the Mediterranean , and one of them wrote a book about ...
... Kings — this , to most of us , means travel . Once , a long time ago it was in 1867 - the good ship Quaker City carried the first little band of ocean excursionists to the shores of the Mediterranean , and one of them wrote a book about ...
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... KINGS THE HIGHWAY OF EGYPT . . 346 · 359 XLIII XLIV XLV XLVI OTHER WAYS THAT ARE EGYPTIAN SAKKARA AND THE SACRED BULLS A VISIT WITH RAMESES II . THE LONG WAY HOME 370 . 377 382 391 ILLUSTRATIONS WE CHANGED OUR MINDS ABOUT BEING WILLING ...
... KINGS THE HIGHWAY OF EGYPT . . 346 · 359 XLIII XLIV XLV XLVI OTHER WAYS THAT ARE EGYPTIAN SAKKARA AND THE SACRED BULLS A VISIT WITH RAMESES II . THE LONG WAY HOME 370 . 377 382 391 ILLUSTRATIONS WE CHANGED OUR MINDS ABOUT BEING WILLING ...
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... kings , and for three hundred years one of the greatest centres of commerce in the world . But these things . are only history . What we care for on a day like this is invention - romance - and remembering that somewhere beyond that ...
... kings , and for three hundred years one of the greatest centres of commerce in the world . But these things . are only history . What we care for on a day like this is invention - romance - and remembering that somewhere beyond that ...
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... king . As France had been the principal sufferer from Hus- sein's pirates , it was not likely that the king would notice this demand . Soon after , in the Dey's palace , the Kasba , at a court function the Dey asked of the French consul ...
... king . As France had been the principal sufferer from Hus- sein's pirates , it was not likely that the king would notice this demand . Soon after , in the Dey's palace , the Kasba , at a court function the Dey asked of the French consul ...
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... King of France does not correspond with the Dey of Algiers , " was the haughty reply , whereupon Hussein struck the consul on the cheek with his fan , and said a lot of unpleasant things of both king and consul . That was the downfall ...
... King of France does not correspond with the Dey of Algiers , " was the haughty reply , whereupon Hussein struck the consul on the cheek with his fan , and said a lot of unpleasant things of both king and consul . That was the downfall ...
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