Western Barbary: Its Wild Tribes and Savage AnimalsJ. Murray, 1844 - 106 pages |
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Page 43 - And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Page 60 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Page 74 - PRAISE be to God, the Lord of all creatures, the most merciful, the king of the day of judgment. Thee do we worship, and of thee do we beg assistance. Direct us in the right way, in the way of those to whom thou hast been gracious ; not of those against whom thou art incensed, nor of those who go astray...
Page 136 - The person of the emperor is that of a colossal man in the full prime of life and health ; forty-two years of age, about six feet two inches high, and well filled out, without any approach to corpulency ; the head magnificently carried, a splendid breadth of shoulder and chest, great length and symmetry of limb, with finely-formed hands and feet.
Page 27 - The morning dawned. I descended from the rock. The claw of the lioness still grasped in death the body of the boar. Many severe wounds showed that the boar had again fought bravely. The lions were the finest I ever saw, and I made good profit by that night's work.
Page 3 - ... and then died away in the murmuring confusion of repetition among the distant defiles. This was our appointed signal : we therefore rapidly descended to the shore, and in our silent row to the ship gazed alternately into the water, lying like a bed of transparent crystal, several fathoms deep, over. a thick forest of submarine vegetation, while the searching rays of the noon-day sun drew forth grotesque masses of light and shade, and revealed the forms of strange fish floating among the emerald...
Page 52 - ... fine — the eyebrows, the nose, the lips, and the fingers; four thick — the lower part of the back, the thighs, the calves of the legs, and the knees; four small — the ears, the breasts, the hands, and the feet.
Page 103 - He was from Genoa, and of course a most pious Christian ; how then were they, the faithful followers of the Prophet, to manage to employ him ? The clock was fixed in the wall of the tower, and it was, of course, a thing impossible to allow the Kaffer to defile God's house of prayer by his sacrilegious steps.
Page 115 - ... near which we were about to pitch our tents, when a crowd of Arabs surrounded us, cursing and swearing at the
Page 20 - ... ci-devant crown-bearers seized upon the bride, hurried her to the screen which divides off the Holy of Holies in a Russian church, where she prostrated herself three times in rapid succession before the pictures of two saints, touching the floor at each plunge audibly with her fair forehead, the exertion being so great that, but for the support of her attendants, she must have sunk. The gentleman was left to prostrate himself unassisted, which done each kissed the picture the requisite three...