A Journey to Damascus Through Egypt, Nubia, Arabia Petræa, Palestine, and Syria, Volume 2H. Colburn, 1847 |
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... Petra - The Khasné - Tribes of the Alouins CHAPTER XXIV . Ruins of El Deir- Khasné - Wady Araba- Course of the Jordan - Shore of the Dead Sea 147 173 195 CHAPTER XXV . Great Mosque of Omar - Mosque of El Aksa- Pools of Solomon - Sheikh ...
... Petra - The Khasné - Tribes of the Alouins CHAPTER XXIV . Ruins of El Deir- Khasné - Wady Araba- Course of the Jordan - Shore of the Dead Sea 147 173 195 CHAPTER XXV . Great Mosque of Omar - Mosque of El Aksa- Pools of Solomon - Sheikh ...
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... Petra trip ; and after the usual dumb show and civilities , pipes and coffee , they de- parted . It seems that the other tribes around Petra have come down in great num- bers , 34 DIARY OF A JOURNEY.
... Petra trip ; and after the usual dumb show and civilities , pipes and coffee , they de- parted . It seems that the other tribes around Petra have come down in great num- bers , 34 DIARY OF A JOURNEY.
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Frederick William Robert Stewart Londonderry (4th marquess). around Petra have come down in great num- bers , in order to force him to engage their camels for us ; but he , of course , wishes to make the best bargain for himself . Though ...
Frederick William Robert Stewart Londonderry (4th marquess). around Petra have come down in great num- bers , in order to force him to engage their camels for us ; but he , of course , wishes to make the best bargain for himself . Though ...
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... Petra . Altogether the price would have amounted to 32,000 pias- tres . Upon this unheard - of demand I got up and left the tent , having come to the determination of giving up the journey . The recent squabbles of the Mezeiné , with ...
... Petra . Altogether the price would have amounted to 32,000 pias- tres . Upon this unheard - of demand I got up and left the tent , having come to the determination of giving up the journey . The recent squabbles of the Mezeiné , with ...
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... Petra hereafter by way of Hebron ; but we are all agreed that in the present state of the tribes , and their extreme rapa- city , it would be a bad example for other travellers to give in to their demands , while , on the other hand ...
... Petra hereafter by way of Hebron ; but we are all agreed that in the present state of the tribes , and their extreme rapa- city , it would be a bad example for other travellers to give in to their demands , while , on the other hand ...
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Akaba Alouins appeared Arabs Armenian arrived ascended Baalbec baggage beautiful Bedouins Beirout camels chapel CHAPTER chasm church cliffs colour convent covered crags cultivated Dead Sea defile desert dromedary Edom encamped entered excavations Fellaheen gardens glen goats Hebron hills Holy Horeb horses Howâts Hussein Ibrahim Jehoshaphat Jerusalem JOURNEY TO DAMASCUS July Khasné ladies land Lebanon looked Mehemet Ali Mezeiné monks morning mosque Mount Hor Mount Lebanon Mount of Olives mountain ornaments Oulad Pacha party passed peaks Petra pitched plain pool of Siloam precipices ravines reached rising road rocks rode round ruins sacred sand scene seems seen sepulchres Sheikh side Sinai spot stone summit Taif Allah Tancred temple tent Tiyayah told tombs took Toualeb town track travellers trees tribe valley valley of Jehoshaphat village visited Wady Araba Wady Mousa walls wild winding Zion
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Page 135 - Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of Slaughter ; for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.
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Page 309 - It contains a mass of every kind of historical matter of interest, which industry and research could collect. We have derived much entertainment and instruction from the work.
Page 136 - For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for My people and for My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted My land.
Page 135 - And they have built the high places of tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which J commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.