The Rob Roy on the Jordan: A Canoe Cruise in Palestine, Egypt, and the Waters of DamascusJ. Murray, 1904 - 427 pages |
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... Channel .. • 109 123 CHAPTER XI . Hijaneh Lake - Jungle - Plain of Pharpar - Maps - Bearings - Off to Bashan - Brak - Stone everything - Cut - throat - Stone Gate and Shutter - Mr . Bright - King Og - Paddle on Pharpar -- Sources ...
... Channel .. • 109 123 CHAPTER XI . Hijaneh Lake - Jungle - Plain of Pharpar - Maps - Bearings - Off to Bashan - Brak - Stone everything - Cut - throat - Stone Gate and Shutter - Mr . Bright - King Og - Paddle on Pharpar -- Sources ...
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... Channel to Portsmouth . Out of the café to ruminate on the rise of nations , we are challenged even here by little ink - faced urchins , who rush at the new traveller with " Black shoes . sare ? " Begun in 1851 , " The Ragged School ...
... Channel to Portsmouth . Out of the café to ruminate on the rise of nations , we are challenged even here by little ink - faced urchins , who rush at the new traveller with " Black shoes . sare ? " Begun in 1851 , " The Ragged School ...
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... Channel ( 4th edition , price 5s . ) . The last three books are published by Low and Marston . The two others are now out of print . ( See post , p . 45 , note . ) When a man has to tell by the pencil and pen what he has done with the ...
... Channel ( 4th edition , price 5s . ) . The last three books are published by Low and Marston . The two others are now out of print . ( See post , p . 45 , note . ) When a man has to tell by the pencil and pen what he has done with the ...
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... channel , where the variable tide of about six feet is magni- fied by the contracting bends , and very difficult currents whirled the canoe about uncertainly . There is a ford across this twisted channel , nearly at the mouth of the ...
... channel , where the variable tide of about six feet is magni- fied by the contracting bends , and very difficult currents whirled the canoe about uncertainly . There is a ford across this twisted channel , nearly at the mouth of the ...
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... channels to another below can be opened . The water is led from the full Nile by numerous canals . Artificial ... channel , into which it is then emptied , and the operation begins again . The men at this work are swarthy fellows ...
... channels to another below can be opened . The water is led from the full Nile by numerous canals . Artificial ... channel , into which it is then emptied , and the operation begins again . The men at this work are swarthy fellows ...
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Common terms and phrases
Abana Abana River ancient Arab Ateibeh Banias bank Bashan beautiful Bethsaida Beyrout boat branch bridge Cairo called camp canal Canoe Club Capernaum channel colour compass course Damascus Damietta dark deep Delta desert dragoman east Egypt English feet fish floating Galilee Hany Harran Hasbany Hermon Hijaneh hills Hooleh horses hundred inches Ingleez Jordan Josephus journey lake land look luggage-boat Mansourah marsh Menzaleh miles morass mountain mouth mules never night Nile once paddle Palestine papyrus Pharpar plain pool Red Sea reeds river Rob Roy rocks round Royal Canoe Club ruins sail sand says Sea of Galilee seemed seen sheikh ship shore shouted side sight silent sketch soon source of Jordan stone strange stream Suez Syria tent Tiberias town travellers trees village voyage Wady waves wild wind word yards Zahleh Zoan
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