A Journey to Damascus Through Egypt, Nubia, Arabia Petræa, Palestine, and Syria, Volume 2H. Colburn, 1847 |
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... asked how . many ? On his replying , about fifty , I told him I had nothing to give them to eat ; that I would give no backshish - that I cared not for ourselves , adding that we were under the protection of his tribe , and that his ...
... asked how . many ? On his replying , about fifty , I told him I had nothing to give them to eat ; that I would give no backshish - that I cared not for ourselves , adding that we were under the protection of his tribe , and that his ...
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... asked me for some powder , gave him a supply in his cap , which I half filled . We had at this time about forty of the Oulad Said , besides ourselves . The scene was very curious and exciting , for even supposing that there was no ...
... asked me for some powder , gave him a supply in his cap , which I half filled . We had at this time about forty of the Oulad Said , besides ourselves . The scene was very curious and exciting , for even supposing that there was no ...
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... asked that I would write to Cairo to complain of the Mezeiné - to which I replied , I had nothing to reproach them with ; they had not molested me , and I had no doubt they had not mo- lested the travellers who preceded us . If they had ...
... asked that I would write to Cairo to complain of the Mezeiné - to which I replied , I had nothing to reproach them with ; they had not molested me , and I had no doubt they had not mo- lested the travellers who preceded us . If they had ...
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... how it will end , for our friends Fiske and Erskine have had no answer . Ten thousand piastres were asked , and they have offered just half that amount . The Sheikh has not even named a sum to us , and all this day has D 2 TO DAMASCUS . 35.
... how it will end , for our friends Fiske and Erskine have had no answer . Ten thousand piastres were asked , and they have offered just half that amount . The Sheikh has not even named a sum to us , and all this day has D 2 TO DAMASCUS . 35.
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... tribe arrived at my tent to negotiate ; and after going through an infinity of details , he concluded by asking 25,000 piastres for our journey . In addition , pay we were to make him a present on our 36 DIARY OF A JOURNEY.
... tribe arrived at my tent to negotiate ; and after going through an infinity of details , he concluded by asking 25,000 piastres for our journey . In addition , pay we were to make him a present on our 36 DIARY OF A JOURNEY.
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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 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.
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